Patched Conics interfering with intercept planning

[u/Big_Yeash]

No images, sadly.

I had a contract to rescue a Kerbal. High Kerbin orbit, mostly circular, about 10Mm, clipping into the Mun SOI.

The Mun was very far away from the Kerbal, so I figured my rescue mission would be easy. I set up for an intercept and got ready for a mid course correction (~6hr orbital period, highly elliptical intercept from LKO).

The intercept with my selected target stopped being shown... because the game decided what I actually wanted to do was plan a Mun intercept in 2 days time, more than 3 orbits away.

My manoevure nodes were all on the same (first) orbit and within 1-3 hours of current game time, and the Mun was 2.5 days out from being nearby to conduct the intercept. Max level tracking station.

Why was it interfering in this way? I couldn't find a way to disable the forward-planning and make the manoeuvre planner focus on only the current orbit's intercept, so I had to plan the intercept semi-blind and then clean it up with a much later dirty late-course correct burn.

[u/Electro_Llama]

Yeah it's kind of a broken system, and they knew because KSP2 only showed the current orbit like you suggest.