Locking

[Buckshot]

Hello fellow space engineers;
I have 2 questions related to Locking. I hope someone here can help me.
1) How do you lock/unlock landing gear from the ground? I thought that the command was 'P' but after watching some YouTube videos they say to not use the 'P' command.
2) How do you lock/unlock 2 connectors?

[Buzzard]

From your cockpit/command seat, open the G-menu. Find your landing gear, drag to the hotbar, select 'Switch Lock' for an easy toggle.

Similar deal with connectors.

[Buckshot]

Originally posted by Buzzard:

From your cockpit/command seat, open the G-menu. Find your landing gear, drag to the hotbar, select 'Switch Lock' for an easy toggle.

Similar deal with connectors.

Thanks so much :)

[Nightwing]

The reason that it's advised to not use P to toggle the landing gear, is because it unlocks ALL items that use that hotkey, which is primarily connectors and landing gear. If you're ship is a simple single grid piece, then that's not such an issue, but if your ship is docked to a carrier or even acting AS a carrier, and has other ships in a hangar or something similar, then pressing P would also unlock the connectors from all those ships (But not before the unlock command was sent to the landing gear of those ships), which could lead to the smaller ships floating around and colliding with the internals of the bigger ship and causing catastrophic damage. And using the word catastrophic is not an exaggeration. I once had a large ship with an internal hangar bay that had two small grid ships docked through connectors. I made the mistake of pressing P to take off from the asteroid I was locked to. By the time I realized something was wrong, I had lost almost 3/4 of my larger ship, the smaller ships were completely gone, and I had tons of components floating around and causing further damage, making me need to reset to a previous save.

[Buckshot]

Originally posted by Nightwing:

The reason that it's advised to not use P to toggle the landing gear, is because it unlocks ALL items that use that hotkey, which is primarily connectors and landing gear. If you're ship is a simple single grid piece, then that's not such an issue, but if your ship is docked to a carrier or even acting AS a carrier, and has other ships in a hangar or something similar, then pressing P would also unlock the connectors from all those ships (But not before the unlock command was sent to the landing gear of those ships), which could lead to the smaller ships floating around and colliding with the internals of the bigger ship and causing catastrophic damage. And using the word catastrophic is not an exaggeration. I once had a large ship with an internal hangar bay that had two small grid ships docked through connectors. I made the mistake of pressing P to take off from the asteroid I was locked to. By the time I realized something was wrong, I had lost almost 3/4 of my larger ship, the smaller ships were completely gone, and I had tons of components floating around and causing further damage, making me need to reset to a previous save.

Thanks. I took Buzzards advice and it worked fine :)

[Buzzard]

The other nasty key is 'Y', as it will power off the entire grid... and anything that it's docked with. Since connectors need power to stay locked, you're now dealing with an unpowered mess of grids that all have to be repowered/reconnected individually, provided, of course, that you manage to save enough of the mess to even bother with trying to reconnect.

[Botji]

The fun experience of playing coop multiplayer with randoms and suddenly seeing like 6+ transports/miners etc fall from their connectors to their partial dooooom and the following "Whops!" in chat when they use either P or Y.

Even better when you return a day or two later and cant spawn at the base because when you go to the GPS location it should be at, nothing is there aside from some rover that wasnt connected to the base... someone used Y and shut everything off and server cleaned it up as 'unpowered junk' after they left.