Planetary Transfer Windows In Alarm Clock Broken?

[Colonel_Camel]

Now I've struck this problem twice.

I set up alarms for the planetary transfer windows for Moho, and then for Eve. I launch spacecraft within an hour or so of this alarm time, and immediately set up a maneuver to have it leave Kerbin space, into a declined solar orbit that intersects with the orbital path of whichever planet I'm aiming for.

But when the "closest approach" indicators come up, the planets are nowhere near the spacecraft! They are in a completely different part of their orbit! It's not even close!

The automated alarms for the planetary transfer windows don't seem to work.

Does anyone else find this?

I have no mods.

[✪KSPBugger✪]

Originally posted by Colonel_Camel:

Now I've struck this problem twice.

I set up alarms for the planetary transfer windows for Moho, and then for Eve. I launch spacecraft within an hour or so of this alarm time, and immediately set up a maneuver to have it leave Kerbin space, into a declined solar orbit that intersects with the orbital path of whichever planet I'm aiming for.

But when the "closest approach" indicators come up, the planets are nowhere near the spacecraft! They are in a completely different part of their orbit! It's not even close!

The automated alarms for the planetary transfer windows don't seem to work.

Does anyone else find this?

I have no mods.

Use patience and vague guesswork with maneuvers.

[Colonel_Camel]

Originally posted by ✪KSPBugger✪:

Use patience and vague guesswork with maneuvers.

Yeah, I know how to do it that way.

But I thought the whole idea of having the planetary transfer window in the alarm clock system was to take a lot of the guesswork out of the process?

I mean if the feature doesn't work, why include it at all?

[Rockethead293]

Yeah honestly I would just use the KerbalAlarmClock mod. Base KSP features are always buggy.

[✪KSPBugger✪]

Originally posted by Colonel_Camel:

Originally posted by ✪KSPBugger✪:

Use patience and vague guesswork with maneuvers.

Yeah, I know how to do it that way.

But I thought the whole idea of having the planetary transfer window in the alarm clock system was to take a lot of the guesswork out of the process?

I mean if the feature doesn't work, why include it at all?

Get into solar orbit and use the auto maneuver node thingy to get to other planets (it might not work sometimes)