Second cockpit breaks ALL ship controls permanently
Read the steps for replication, this is not a newbie user error.
Using a second cockpit while the first one is not marked as main permanently makes all present and future cockpits unusable for navigation, even after removal of the first/second/both cockpits. Any cockpit will report "Seat/remote with higher priority is already occupied".
This happens constantly and deterministically. Judging by the reddit posts [1] [2], this problem appeared at least 7 years ago.
Steps for replication: (creative, no mods, default settings)
- On a large grid platform, place a cockpit, a battery, and a gyroscope.
- Sit in the cockpit and wiggle a platform to ensure your input is handled.
- Place a second cockpit and sit in it. Wiggle a bit, but don't leave the cockpit.
- Open the control panel and configure the first cockpit as the main one.
- Observe that you can't wiggle in the second cockpit — as expected ✔
- Sit in the first, now main, cockpit — observe that there is a message "Seat/remote with higher priority is already occupied" and that you can't manipulate the platform ❌
Further user actions in a non-creative world cannot fix this issue. Removing any of the cockpits don't help. Completely removing/destroying all cockpits don't help. My second rover-base is now static defense because I can't make a simple robotic arm controller in an engineering game.
Video proof: https://youtu.be/QtXdDMLbMAA
I try to wiggle every time I enter a cockpit
I have the same bug
I thought I had this bug, and maybe...... Anyway, just started a "star system" new game. Found a Cobalt rock. Build a basic base
Thought a cockpit on top the cargo box would kill 2 birds with one stone. -- Recharge power and hydrogen while dumping stones for the refiner and thinking about what to build next.
Hoped out and thought I needed to move my respawn pod a bit away, but it was DOA. The terminal indicated that the battery on board still had charge, but everything was non-responsive.
Ran a few troubleshoot searches, and nothing seemed to fix it, until I loaded the Admin screen and enabled creative mode tools. Slapped a few new batteries on the pod, and it sprang to life.
Fixed? Fingers crossed.
I thought I had this bug, and maybe...... Anyway, just started a "star system" new game. Found a Cobalt rock. Build a basic base
Thought a cockpit on top the cargo box would kill 2 birds with one stone. -- Recharge power and hydrogen while dumping stones for the refiner and thinking about what to build next.
Hoped out and thought I needed to move my respawn pod a bit away, but it was DOA. The terminal indicated that the battery on board still had charge, but everything was non-responsive.
Ran a few troubleshoot searches, and nothing seemed to fix it, until I loaded the Admin screen and enabled creative mode tools. Slapped a few new batteries on the pod, and it sprang to life.
Fixed? Fingers crossed.
Actually, I'd just built a ramp on the station grid, and drove the respawn pod up onto it, thinking I could grid tie (hinges, pistons, merge block) the two if I could get the set up right. I couldn't, so I just slapped a cockpit on the station gross while the pod was parked in it.
Actually, I'd just built a ramp on the station grid, and drove the respawn pod up onto it, thinking I could grid tie (hinges, pistons, merge block) the two if I could get the set up right. I couldn't, so I just slapped a cockpit on the station gross while the pod was parked in it.
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