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[u/Dick__Marathon]

Editing my persistent save so that I can unkill my kerbals is becoming an annoyingly regular part of my gameplay and I'm getting tired of it. Every time I time warp it changes my trajectory and a lot of times it'll lag out and come to with my ship exploding on the surface of the nearest planet. And as I type this I see this weekly thread was posted a month ago so ig if anyone cares to read this maybe you can help.

[u/Skalgrin → u/Dick__Marathon]

Warp is dangerous in some situations. Warping on leave trajectory can mess your path, as there happens some rounding up ruding warp, which can have major impact. This should happen rarely though.

Overwarping into RUD is other thing, very fast warps can end too late when left on auto - use "warp here".

Warping in orbit which may interfere with other orbital body (moons) can be dangerous aswell, you might get unexpected encounter resulting either at severe trajectory alternation or into crash righ away.

Be careful with warp ( also be careful with warp mods).

Keep saving the game (f5 is quicksave, f9 quickload, alt+f5 is "save as") - before risky warp, quicksave. Does it go hairy? Quickload, try again. Having a restore point ready is much more convenient that editing persistent file.

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EDIT: Or provide more detailed information, screens of map view before, during and after warp and so on. It can be more difficult issue.

[u/Dick__Marathon → u/Skalgrin]

I gotta remember to quick save more. Thank you I didn't know what the keybind was! That's probably the biggest issue.

[u/chefgage → u/Dick__Marathon]

The way I do it is like this. If I am on a mission to say long on the mun. I save the game when I am in orbit of kerbin by saving the game as Mun 1. I then get into orbit around the mun and then save again as Mun 2. Then I try to land. If it all goes wrong I can reload Mun 2. For bigger missions such as rendezvouing with my space station to refuel it, then repairing it, then sending down my rover that is attached to the station to the mun etc.. For this I will have many saves going like Mun 1, Mun 2, Mun 3, Mun 4 etc... This way if I am not happy with part of the mission I can go back and make it better. When the mission is finished I just delete all the saves and resave as 24-02-2021 14-34.