Fast Ways To Add Lots Of Kerbals To A Game

[AWESOMEPIEMAN]

Hi all! I've been messing around with a variant of KSP that I created with a large combination of mods and a lot of .cfg edits to create the closest thing to a sci-fi experience that I can. Before anyone grills me for being a cheapskate cheater be advised that I also have a RSS/RO variant of the game that I use just as frequently . Anyways... In this game I am dealing with ships that have crew capacities of sometimes upwards of 1000+ kerbals. My question is are there any ways (or mods) that y'all are aware of that could allow me to add a metric butt-load of kerbals to my ranks? I'm not necessarily looking for to fill all my ships to the brim, but something just feels a little off when I have a 600 meter long carrier in orbit that has a crew of two. You know what I mean? Obviously I'm aware of using the debug menu to add kerbals or hiring a grouping of them from the AC and then time warping to hire more. Neither of these methods seem to be fast enough for me and I don't really want to sit around for a half hour just spawning in kerbals. Anyone have thoughts? Oh... and I have pics if anyone wants to see that supercarrier. 

[ZooNamedGames]

I'd love to know the answer when you find one since I'm in the same boat; I have giant passenger aircraft capable of carrying 100+ Kerbals and it kinda feels pointless hauling 3 kerbals around Kerbin with no crew and AC spamming over and over takes far too long when it generates 4-8 Kerbals 

[Urses]

Install USI buy Kerballs in 10x packs. 

Faster way? I don't think it is one there. Because you can buy them without recovery time. 

Funny Kabooms 

Urses 

Edited April 26, 2017 by Urses

[AWESOMEPIEMAN]

16 minutes ago, Urses said:

Install USI buy Kerballs in 10x packs. 

Faster way? I don't think it is one there. Because you can buy them without recovery time. 

Funny Kabooms 

Urses 

@Urses do you think you could provide a specific download to the mod you are talking about? I'm familiar with USI and I think I have a mod or two from them, but I'm not sure which one specifically adds the feature you are talking about.

[steuben]

In the black magic section of techniques you can just add more entries to the ROSTER section of the persistent.sfs

 

Quote

KERBAL
  {
   name = <rand.name>
   gender = <rand.gender>
   type = Crew
   trait = <rand.job>
   brave = <rand.between 0,1>
   dumb = <rand.between 0,1>
   badS = <rand.TF>
   veteran = True
   tour = False
   state = Available
   inactive = False
   inactiveTimeEnd = 0
   gExperienced = 0
   outDueToG = False
   ToD = 0
   idx = -1
   extraXP = 0
   CAREER_LOG
   {
    flight = 0
   }
   FLIGHT_LOG
   {
    flight = 0
   }
}

 

Excel  or spreadsheet software of choice will help to create the 100 or so you're after.

Edited April 26, 2017 by steuben

[Urses]

@AWESOMEPIEMAN

Not a Problem

This mode integrates 10 new kerbal klasses anf adopts a old mode for Kerbal hiring.

For a small bug workaround dont scale UI below 100%.  You can hire Kerbals up to lvl 3 with your change for sex anf stats and have a bulkhire option.

MKS and Tools must be up to date.

Have fun

Urses

[AWESOMEPIEMAN]

@Urses Oh, well that's the exact mod I have. I'll have to mess around and figure out the way that you are talking about for hiring multiple crew members at a time. Thank you by the way!

@steuben Do I literally just copy and paste what you wrote (word for word/character for character) into the roster section or do I need to fill any of those values out first? (I'm a novice level programmer... and by that I mean I can figure out how to change some of the stuff inside the KSP files.  ) And thank you too for your help!

Edited April 26, 2017 by AWESOMEPIEMAN

[AWESOMEPIEMAN]

@ZooNamedGames Hey it looks like both Urses and steuben have find some ways to get this done. You may want to take a look. You can have fun with your passenger airline business (don't be like United) and I can have fun conquering the stars with my massive fleet of starships and fighters!  

[steuben]

just about. there's a fair bit of place holder there.

<rand.name> the name of the kerbal

<rand.gender> male/female

<rand.job> scientist, pilot, engineer

<rand.TF> True/false

<rand.between 0,1> something between 0 to 1

 

[Urses]

@AWESOMEPIEMAN

Look at astronaut Complex. 

Direktly below the class fields is a Slider for bulkhire from 1 to 10 kerbals. You get up to 10 of one class. And realy dumb+Cowardly kerbals give you money and dont cost you anything at the moment. Bit this is more likely a miscalculation and will maybe be corrected in next upgrade.

Have fun.

Urses 

 

[AWESOMEPIEMAN]

@Urses Thanks man, you've been a big help! Made my life so much easier. I just can't believe I hadn't figured out about that earlier. I really need to use MKS more I guess.

[Ultimate Steve]

Turn on "Auto Hire before launch."

Built a stack of mk3 cabins.

Launch.

Profit.

(Although I don't play with auto hire, it may only fill the root part.)