Maxilica

Hi. So I've been playing career mode again and as usual I got quite a few tourist contracts. You know, those ones where you have to transport tourists to where they want to go. I let these pile up until they got to about four, and then I just threw them all onto one big ship I call the Commuter Train. Its job was to transport all the kerbals to Minmus, then to the Mun where it would dock with a lander I had there. The kerbals who wanted to land on the Mun would transfer to the lander, go down and come back up again and then redock with Commuter Train which would take all of them back home to Kerbin. Something so perfect sounded really good in my head, but in reality quite hard. I got them all to Minmus alright, but now something's happened to the complicated maneuver nodes I had saved with Kerbal Alarm Clock and I'm not sure what to do. Which is why I came here to ask you guys this: do the boxes I've already ticked in their contracts get saved when I land so I can send them up again? Or do they just disappear and I have to start over again? Any help is appreciated, Max

1 - THE KERBAL SPACE CENTRE Hi, me again. After my prologue, I can say that things have been going great. This could lead to be the best era of Kerbalkind! All the guys in the lab are very happy. There is a problem though. My company is gonna have to be looked after by someone, as my schedule's going to get busy from here on out. My dad's too old now, and my wife is a journalist, so I might shut it down. A few months after I wrote the first entry, the KSA re-organized itself. First of all, it's now going to be called the KSP, which stands for "Kerbal Space Program". I think it's a better name. Obviously, the new black water-powered mechanisms (that we've christened "rockets") are going to be launched from a space harbour, or centre. We've decided to place it near the equator of the planet, because we save BW and money that way. The government is going to provide our new homes, thankfully. It's going to be a long time before the first bricks are laid, but we'll gonna get there. Some time after that, we decided what we were gonna do, exactly. We decided upon the fact that we were gonna have to send someone up in those rockets to control them, after all. They chose me as the prime candidate, due to my x-treme piloting skillz. There were gonna be another four guys in the group, but they haven't been chosen yet. We also started preparations for the KSC. It was going better than I'd expected. But I spoke too soon. Just when the construction workers started building, the government said "no" and cut our budget big time. It was supposed to look like this: Nice, isn't it? Well, we're not gonna see it anytime soon. I was infuriated. My friends to just go with the flow, but... We had to redo the whole plan to fit with the new budget. At least we came up with the new plan relatively quickly. Three months, that's all. I visited the site with the fellow scientists bi-monthly, and every time we went our smiles got a little bigger. The building that was completed was the Astronaut Complex. Why it's called "astronaut" complex, I don't know. I thought we had agreed upon "kerbonaut"! Anyway, that's the place where I'm going to do my training and such. I started a week after its completion. The tests were simple, seeing as I'd done some of them when I was in flight school. A new one was one where I had to fly around on an experimental jetpack. Don' ask me why I had to do that. Here's a picture: The rest of the buildings were finished some time after that. It coincided with the new update, so everyone came. 0.7.2 Today two of the remaining four kerbonauts were announced: Bill and Bob. Here's to a good career with them. I know that Bill is an engineer and that Bob is a scientist, so it's good to have people in different fields. Gene, a guy called "flight director" held a speech about the future. I didn't get featured in it, but that's not so bad, because I'd forgotten about it. Here's a transcript: "Mhpphm, yes, yes. Is this on? Ye- Ok, then. So. Greetings, ladies and gentlekerbs. We are gathered here today to celebrate a very important step of our history: the opening of the Kerbal Space Center. This place will help us reach places previously thought unreachable. It will act as a major transport hub, and even a military base if the need arises. It will create motivation and jobs for those wanting to help us out, and it is the biggest and most important project ever carried out ever. It would not be possible if it wouldn't have been for the architects, builders and mathematicians that spent hours upon hours of their time working on the project. Please, let's applaud them. Of course, I have plenty of time for your questions. Fire away." "What was the total cost of the project?" "Approximately 2,000,000 funds." "Mr. Gene! Is this part of a military cover-up to destroy the Maxinimalists?" "Of course not. It will only be used as a military base in emergencies, and the current facilities do not support very big planes." "Will a terminal building be built?" "Eventually, if the passenger numbers rise to a certain point. Currently, the building substituted as the airport is a segregated section of the Space Plane Hangar. "Will other centres be built similar to this around the planet?" "That is inevitable, but they will of course be much smaller than the KSC. That'll be all, thank you." At the beginning of 0.7.3, the other two kerbonauts were announced: Dindroock and Chuck, they're both pilots. Around that time, the launch crew were getting the first mission ready. We were all very excited, especially me, because I would be the one who'd be commanding it. I launched a few months later after the announcement. It was definitely the most exhilarating experience of my life.

***PROLOGUE*** It's been years. Decades, centuries, even. I don't know. I'm just so happy. We've finally done it. Sorry, I seem to have gotten ahead of myself here. Okay. So, I am one of millions of specimens of Kerbals. We live on a planet in the Kerbol system called Kerbin. As far as we know, it's the only world that can support life. But I (and quite a few other) believe otherwise. Our history is very, very faded. We know pretty much nothing about it. There are several theories accepted by the Kerbin Science Academy, the main two are: being created by a supreme being known as Kod or evolving from some proto-Kerbal. The other somewhat accepted theory is that our origins lie above us. It seems absurd, but hear me out. We believe that out of all the planets in the Universe, there must be more than one that can support life. Think about it; it seems logical, right? Now, this ridiculous theory has only ever been accepted by a few, possibly because of the lack of evidence. But its popularity has increased recently, due to some not-so good reasons. Nobody wants to admit it, but life on this planet is hard. And I mean hard. Our recent technological advancements have lead to predictions, and none of them look good. We are losing land every year due to its composure. We no longer breathe air due to its lethalness, and have instead developed a substance that keeps us alive, called polyjuice. It has replaced most of our old systems, and is passed on to our descendants. However, due to a never-precedented phenomenon, our soil decrease rate is growing, and it's not showing any sign of stopping. We cannot pinpoint when exactly we will run out of land, but it is coming. Us kerbals are an optimistic race, though. We know that we will find a way to survive, but then there are those who worry and start thinking about continuing our existence. They've tried all sorts of things; from building outposts in the desert to building a network of caves underneath the ground. These only showed minor success, unfortunately. Recently, the KSA has hired these people to team up with them and together find a way of solving the problem. They already know the solution: the absurd theory I was talking about earlier. They just need a way of getting there. This is where I come in. My father used to own a parts company (I do now) and he used to sell them to architects and builders. My mother always had to take care of my sister, leaving me all alone in the house. You can imagine that I wasn't just going to leave my dad's things untouched. I began to build pointy contraptions (because pointy things go faster) powered by black water that could reach incredible heights. I began to build these things for cash, and they became popular around my area. Things like these can't go unnoticed for long, and a few years ago the KSA started questioning me about these things. I thought that I was going to go to prison, but they took a liking to me. They hired me as a mathematician for their company, wanting to be one step closer to finding the solution. We worked I don't know how long on that chalkboard. Our schedule used to be wake up, koffee, equations, sandwich, equations, smaller sandwich, bed. I went out with my friends every once in a while to make sure that I was still sane. It sounds ludicrous, but I don't regret one moment. Not one. Because today we've done it. The whole lab and I have came up with an answer that everyone can agree on. No one in particular discovered it, because we work as a team. It has been named "the Tsiolkov equation", after Dad's old boss that started it all. It is actually quite simple, but our minds were lured down a different path than the one needed, which is why it took us so damn long. We've done it. We're going to do it. We will do it. We will carry this species onwards and we will find life other than ours. It's gonna be awesome. Upwards! - 0.7.0 KD, KSA HQ

This seems promising. Let's see where it goes!

Yes, this is an existing save. Ok, say I want to start clean, but not entirely, as in I get up to where I was and then start playing again. Before contracts, all you did was give yourself amounts of science and power through the tech tree until you got to where you where. But I don't want to do all of the contracts again, so do you think you could help me out?

Hi! I've been playing KSP for ages, but I've been really busy in the last couple of months, and only now have I gotten round to upgrading my install to 0.25. The Patcher did its work and I hopped in. Everything was fine until I entered the VAB. Every single part was doubled, and the funds indicator had a "(+ 9,8 %)" next to the number. I couldn't understand anything. My old ships would load up just fine, but it was still annoying and confusing. Same story in the SPH. I checked out the R&D Facility: Same story. Every tab showed that I had unlocked double the amount of parts that I previously had. For example, when the next unlock involved two parts, it would show me four, the doubles of the previous. I am running a few mods, but in this it must be something the upgrade has caused. I will however note that 'Firespitter' doesn't work. Help? - Max

Ah, this takes me back, man! Awesome btw. I had a good laugh

Looks good. Subbed!

Buy a sea lion, then kill it and make Swedish sounds. How to diagnose Kessler Syndrome?

IMPOSSIBRU! No, seriously. We are talking about someone who has absolutely no life here.

Nice to see that my country is investing in space travel. However, I'm not sure when the spaceport and manned program will happen. We're already spending quite enough (*cough*HighSpeedTwo*cough*).

So, his parachutes exploded on re-entry.

Forcing me to keep Jeb happy?! CHEATER!!!!

We'd have to reconsider what we mean by Centigrade. What if the Earth suddenly flipped 90 degrees?

Aha... Very well, then. Well, I guess I'll be resorting to Sci-Fi for this one. Thanks for all your help!