Missing Spacecraft

[One Eye Jack]

I had a ship simply dissapear on me. It was in a stable orbit past mimnus and I was going to come back to it and send it to Eve after I did some other things. When I came back it was simply gone. I checked for debris, in fact I checked everything in case it got renamed or something. It's just not there. I go to the pilor center and I show no missing pilots but the pilots in that ship arent there any more. Any ideas? The only mod I am using is Mech Jeb. I thought maybe it crashed or something but if that was the case I should have two missing pilots I would think.

[Ogre420]

Did you turn OFF the display of certain types of craft in the tracking center/map mode?
Upper part of screen a bunch of buttons that filter whats displayed.
In map mode they auto hide, [like the recover vessel above the altitude in normal mode] move cursor to upper center of screen to see that display.

[Blackcoma]

Ive had many ship files corrupt and it just deletes the craft and loads to a black screen, fixed by reverting to an older save and renaming to persistant save file. I havent been unfortunate enough to have crew when that happens, so not sure if it would pop the crew back to the academy or not?

Once i had a similar corruption bug that made all my quests disapear which sucked since i was comming back from the moon when it happened and never got the rewards, just wasted money and time on the journey.

[One Eye Jack]

Originally posted by vaprak:

Did you turn OFF the display of certain types of craft in the tracking center/map mode?
Upper part of screen a bunch of buttons that filter whats displayed.
In map mode they auto hide, [like the recover vessel above the altitude in normal mode] move cursor to upper center of screen to see that display.

Oh yeah. I have been playing for a while now. First thing I did was that. Even looked for debris in case it crashed or something......nope its just gone. And I show no missing crew either.. it's like it never existed as far as the game is concerned. Unfortunately it was a very complex and expensive ship. Over 1 million to build.....the money didn't reappear when the ship dissapeared. I have already written it off as a loss. Was hoping someone had similar experiance and knew how to prevent it in the future

[One Eye Jack]

Originally posted by Blackcoma:

Ive had many ship files corrupt and it just deletes the craft and loads to a black screen, fixed by reverting to an older save and renaming to persistant save file. I havent been unfortunate enough to have crew when that happens, so not sure if it would pop the crew back to the academy or not?

Once i had a similar corruption bug that made all my quests disapear which sucked since i was comming back from the moon when it happened and never got the rewards, just wasted money and time on the journey.

So do you know how to prevent it from happening again? This ship was circling past Mimnus for months, maybe years of gametime and all was fine. Then Poof! Gone! I show no missing crew at the pilots center either. It's like it never existed.

[Blackcoma]

not sure how you prevent it, but in the 5-6 times ive observed it has only corrupted when you try and load it, so its always been fixable with the save game prior to me trying to access it and seeing it gone. So i guess your could say prevention is regular alt-f5 saves with different file names.

i play with a dozen mods installed so i crash a lot from out of memory 32bit thing, so its taught me to save like mad, typically i will save like 3-4 times per mission. its saved me a lot of greif getting into this habbit!

[Ogre420]

Originally posted by Blackcoma:

not sure how you prevent it, but in the 5-6 times ive observed it has only corrupted when you try and load it, so its always been fixable with the save game prior to me trying to access it and seeing it gone. So i guess your could say prevention is regular alt-f5 saves with different file names.

i play with a dozen mods installed so i crash a lot from out of memory 32bit thing, so its taught me to save like mad, typically i will save like 3-4 times per mission. its saved me a lot of greif getting into this habbit!

Try the S.A.V.E. mod it makes timed auto backups (outside the games auto saves) and adds another level of security.

Also the DATED quick saves mod, it puts a time stamp on all F5 saves so that you have more then one backup from F5, just use <ALT> F9 to see all the dated F5 saves.


http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/94997-105-save-automatic-backup-system-124-1314/

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/97033-10x-magico13s-modlets-field-experience-sensible-screenshot-etc/

NOTE: Look down the page on that one, the forum post there has multiple mods.


And as always for easier mod installation... CKAN...

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/90246-the-comprehensive-kerbal-archive-network-ckan-package-manager-v1160-13-dec-2015/

[One Eye Jack]

Originally posted by vaprak:

Originally posted by Blackcoma:

not sure how you prevent it, but in the 5-6 times ive observed it has only corrupted when you try and load it, so its always been fixable with the save game prior to me trying to access it and seeing it gone. So i guess your could say prevention is regular alt-f5 saves with different file names.

i play with a dozen mods installed so i crash a lot from out of memory 32bit thing, so its taught me to save like mad, typically i will save like 3-4 times per mission. its saved me a lot of greif getting into this habbit!

Try the S.A.V.E. mod it makes timed auto backups (outside the games auto saves) and adds another level of security.

Also the DATED quick saves mod, it puts a time stamp on all F5 saves so that you have more then one backup from F5, just use <ALT> F9 to see all the dated F5 saves.


http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/94997-105-save-automatic-backup-system-124-1314/

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/97033-10x-magico13s-modlets-field-experience-sensible-screenshot-etc/

NOTE: Look down the page on that one, the forum post there has multiple mods.


And as always for easier mod installation... CKAN...

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/90246-the-comprehensive-kerbal-archive-network-ckan-package-manager-v1160-13-dec-2015/

The only problem with that is I don't know when the ship dissapeared. I did a ton of other missions while waiting for my transfer window. I could go back through my saves I suppose and see when it dissapears, but I am not about to re-start at the previous save because so much happened in the meantime. Oh well. Thanks for the advice in any case. I used to have a ton of crashes as well but since 1.0.5 came out I have had zero crashes. This is the first and only glitch since then. I will read the links in your post in any case. Thanks and happy flying.