Kerbal Space Program

I see this as two separate bugs:

1) switching ships loses the target of the ship you switched from

2) cannot select close objects as target

and yes it is very maddening having to eyeball relative velocities until close enough to right-click on a docking port

I believe the 'lost target during switch' bug was fixed in 0.21 or 0.21.1.

I do not believe 'cannot target close ships' is fixed. I have requested some help from the wonderful folk on IRC regarding this 2nd issue, as my potato takes a minimum of 30 mins to get into orbit and I don't have a save with a space station so I'd have to do it twice.. others have much faster rigs than mine and can do it in minutes :)

I used a single ship with an extra probe core and a decoupler, launched as a single craft. Separated in orbit, selected the other craft as target then switched control (via [ ) to the other craft and back. Target was lost, but green colour remained on the (previous) target orbit in map view. Although the two craft overlapped on map view, clicking the group allowed me to re-target the vessel, which was some 150m away.

• OmegaCenti also tested this and it seems to work fine. Perhaps because my "target craft" was debris/no power?
• It is easy to re-select the target via map mode, if only one of the overlapping craft is not currently being controlled.

I have repeated as many variables as I could. I matched 187 meters from target. I have switched between crafts via [ ] . It appears that I maintain my target when:

• Both vessels are powered
• Both vessels are unpowered
• Vessel A is powered and B is not, and vice versa

I would declare This bug fixed.

However, I am using MechJeb (mod) for Smart A.S.S, but it is currently disabled. I am also using Kerbal Engineer Redux (mod)for various information gathering, but it too is disabled. I do not think this should affect the validity of my post, but I thought it would be wise to mention it none the less.

I am easily able to select among the various targets, as long as both shops are of a different type, I will update this whenever ships A and B are both designated by the same symbol.

A workaround if this proves to be fruitless is to designate the two ships as different icons, and only select the icon of the ship you are currently working with (i.e. the ship you are controlling).

It appears I forgot to answer one aspect of it.

@ 187 meters, I was able to unselect target, switch views, switch ships, combination of the both in various sequences, and reacquire close vehicles as targets.

This bug appears to be partially fixed. With one ship targeting the other, I was able to switch vessels with [ ] and back, and the target remained the same.

However, I was able to cause the game to lose target information for a vessel by:
1. Ship A targets Ship B.
2. Switch vessels to Ship B by [ ].
3. Have Ship B target ship A.
4. Switch back to ship A using [ ].
5. Ship A's target information is gone.

It appears that when switching vessels, if another vessel targets anything, the original vessel loses it's target information. The target information remains as long as you don't target anything with any other vessels.

I just used it in 1.2.1 and while it retains the target, SAS Target lock is lost as soon as one switches vessel. It drops to Stability mode and so the switched ship will not follow the target.
In fact no matter what setting one puts SAS on before one switches vessel it will reset to Stability assist as soon as one switches.

Yes, that's how SAS has always worked. SAS always switches modes to Stability mode when you switch away from a ship that has SAS turned on. Try it in any previous KSP version and you will see that it has always worked that way.