[1.4.x] Contract Pack: Tourism Plus [v1.5.2] [2016-12-14]

[Kaerwek]

I've a mission where I should drive a tour bus at KSC.

So I made a vehicle with 6 External Command Seats for the passagners. But when I drive to pick them up, I can see no option to pick them up.

I ditched the only command pod, so I essentially drive the bus from a External Command Seat.

Is it impossible to conduct bus tours using solely External Command Seats?

[nightingale]

55 minutes ago, Kaerwek said:

I've a mission where I should drive a tour bus at KSC.

So I made a vehicle with 6 External Command Seats for the passagners. But when I drive to pick them up, I can see no option to pick them up.

I ditched the only command pod, so I essentially drive the bus from a External Command Seat.

Is it impossible to conduct bus tours using solely External Command Seats?

That's a GAP contract!

Still, if I remember correctly, it should work without a command pod (although TakeCommand may help there).  To pick up the passengers you have to cycle to them using the '[' and ']' keys, and manually board them on the bus.

[theonegalen]

Hi, I'm playing with CC, Tourism Plus, and a quite a few other mods, and CC is throwing some errors. Here's the log:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6ZYgATQfNhBa2FGdWRmdHR6UVk

[Cassin]

Hi guys,

 

I think I'm dumb... I took the contract "Investor Tour" where I must choose between Valxy and Dufrey Kerman to build in the future the casino or the hotel. I took Dufrey onboard and... I don't know what to do next ^^

 

How to make him "the tour" ? I tried EVA report, Crew Report, but nothing. Didn't see any special option neither on the cockpit of the rover (it's a mod, the Karibou Rover by Roverdude, maybe it doesn't count as "rover" ?) nor on the kerbal himself.

 

Help ! ^^

 

 

EDIT : okay, I've found out  I used Waypoint Manager and the waypoints appears clearly ^^ But it's a little non-intuitive I think (what about people don't using Waypoint Manager ?) Would it be simpler to spawn flags at the waypoints as well as the two kerbals ?

Edited May 19, 2016 by Cassin

[nightingale]

On 18/05/2016 at 1:13 PM, Cassin said:

Hi guys,

 

I think I'm dumb... I took the contract "Investor Tour" where I must choose between Valxy and Dufrey Kerman to build in the future the casino or the hotel. I took Dufrey onboard and... I don't know what to do next ^^

 

How to make him "the tour" ? I tried EVA report, Crew Report, but nothing. Didn't see any special option neither on the cockpit of the rover (it's a mod, the Karibou Rover by Roverdude, maybe it doesn't count as "rover" ?) nor on the kerbal himself.

 

Help ! ^^

 

 

EDIT : okay, I've found out  I used Waypoint Manager and the waypoints appears clearly ^^ But it's a little non-intuitive I think (what about people don't using Waypoint Manager ?) Would it be simpler to spawn flags at the waypoints as well as the two kerbals ?

Waypoint Manager is strongly recommended (and now you know why).  It's possible to do it without based on the map view and the waypoint names, but it's a pain.

[Vrana]

Is there a way to force the investor mission to generate? I have seen it, twice i think, but felt it wasn't the right time to do it. I have since decided it is the right time and the mission wont show up. I do get other missions form this pack, like space camp, but no investor tour. Since i do not take rep penalties for declining missions I have tried declining contracts until i get it. I must have declined hundreds but still investor tour.

[nightingale]

5 hours ago, Vrana said:

Is there a way to force the investor mission to generate? I have seen it, twice i think, but felt it wasn't the right time to do it. I have since decided it is the right time and the mission wont show up. I do get other missions form this pack, like space camp, but no investor tour. Since i do not take rep penalties for declining missions I have tried declining contracts until i get it. I must have declined hundreds but still investor tour.

I've you've seen it, then it should be possible to generate.  I think it's a 3-star mission, so make sure you have high enough rep and don't have all the 3-star slots filled up.

[Vrana]

27 minutes ago, nightingale said:

... and don't have all the 3-star slots filled up.

I highly suspect this is the case as i  do have many interplanetary missions awaiting completion (long transit time).

 

What is the cap for 3-star missions?

[nightingale]

5 minutes ago, Vrana said:

I highly suspect this is the case as i  do have many interplanetary missions awaiting completion (long transit time).

 

What is the cap for 3-star missions?

It depends a lot on reputation - see here.

[Vrana]

17 minutes ago, nightingale said:

It depends a lot on reputation - see here.

Yes, this explains it. Never knew there was such a mechanic.

 

Thank you.

Edited May 20, 2016 by Vrana

[Chippy the Space Dog]

 

Hi folks,

I'm not sure why, but I don't seem to get any tourism contracts. I'm half way through year two, using KCT, but I have a high reputation (I think 900 or 1000 plus), have done heaps of satellite and rescue missions, put my first, very basic station in orbit, but I've never so much as seen a single tourism contract. 

One of the first things I did was fully upgrade my mission control, but it's possible in those early days a tourism contract came and went while I was waiting for KCT to build a vessel or something, but shouldn't the mission be reoffered at some point if that's the case?  I always leave around 4 contract slots free to the missions cycle and I can cherry pick so I don't think I'm always just not seeing them.

I even tried unstalling Tourism Plus and them putting it back in.  No joy.

As this is a 'negative' problem I'm not sure what if any game information I can provide to help diagnose this, but any help appreciated!

 

 

[nightingale]

3 hours ago, Chippy the Space Dog said:

I'm not sure why, but I don't seem to get any tourism contracts. I'm half way through year two, using KCT, but I have a high reputation (I think 900 or 1000 plus), have done heaps of satellite and rescue missions, put my first, very basic station in orbit, but I've never so much as seen a single tourism contract. 

One of the first things I did was fully upgrade my mission control, but it's possible in those early days a tourism contract came and went while I was waiting for KCT to build a vessel or something, but shouldn't the mission be reoffered at some point if that's the case?  I always leave around 4 contract slots free to the missions cycle and I can cherry pick so I don't think I'm always just not seeing them.

I even tried unstalling Tourism Plus and them putting it back in.  No joy.

As this is a 'negative' problem I'm not sure what if any game information I can provide to help diagnose this, but any help appreciated!

Keep an eye on #510, I'm assuming it's the same issue.  Going to be working this weekend to get a release done, including a fix for that issue.

[Chippy the Space Dog]

2 hours ago, nightingale said:

Keep an eye on #510, I'm assuming it's the same issue.  Going to be working this weekend to get a release done, including a fix for that issue.

Awesome possum!  I hope that's it.

As an aside, the rest of my game seems to be on par with what I was getting in 1.0.5, with the exception of Tourism Plus. Typically my contracts cap at 14-15.  Although my MC building says 'unlimited' when I reach 14 or so contracts I stop being offered more if I have 14 accepted. And then, when I do one, I get offered one more.  This is why I typically keep 8-10 contracts active, and usually have around 5-6 being in the offers queue..

[Chippy the Space Dog]

Actually, reading SeveredSolo's account, and thinking on it, it's been ages since I saw one of the Field Contract waypoint missions too, if ever.. I have been getting several of those high and low orbit magnetometer type missions though.

[nightingale]

2 hours ago, Chippy the Space Dog said:

Awesome possum!  I hope that's it.

As an aside, the rest of my game seems to be on par with what I was getting in 1.0.5, with the exception of Tourism Plus. Typically my contracts cap at 14-15.  Although my MC building says 'unlimited' when I reach 14 or so contracts I stop being offered more if I have 14 accepted. And then, when I do one, I get offered one more.  This is why I typically keep 8-10 contracts active, and usually have around 5-6 being in the offers queue..

There's a hard limit of contracts - the default is 15, but you can increase it in contracts.cfg

[Chippy the Space Dog]

6 hours ago, nightingale said:

There's a hard limit of contracts - the default is 15, but you can increase it in contracts.cfg

Good to know, thank you. I think the limit is set about right.  I seem to have enough money so far, but not so much I don't have to be careful.

[Mine_Turtle]

One of the waypoints might be set incorrectly: http://imgur.com/dEL2nCO

It is impossible to get close to the waypoint in the SPH, as it is inside the building.

[nightingale]

1 hour ago, Mine_Turtle said:

One of the waypoints might be set incorrectly: http://imgur.com/dEL2nCO

It is impossible to get close to the waypoint in the SPH, as it is inside the building.

Do you have Kopernicus?  That has been know to cause waypoint offsets.

[Mine_Turtle]

10 minutes ago, nightingale said:

Do you have Kopernicus?  That has been know to cause waypoint offsets.

Yes, I do. I have modified save game file to increase waypoint radius so it's a minor issue.

[nightingale]

2 minutes ago, Mine_Turtle said:

Yes, I do. I have modified save game file to increase waypoint radius so it's a minor issue.

Yup, been an issue with Kopernicus for a long while.  I'm going to try to get a workaround into one of the next releases.

[FirroSeranel]

I got a contract to show one of two VIPs around KSC with a rover, one for a space hotel, one for a space casino. I did the one for the casino, and when I finished, it said to check Mission Command for a contract to build the casino, but I never got it...

Is there any way to get it manually, or to reset the prerequisite contract so I might be able to get it again at some point?

[nightingale]

@FirroSeranel - Next release of Contract Configurator will fix the issues with not enough contracts getting generated.

[Enterprise0709]

A quick Question: If i have a contract for multiple kerbals, do all the kerbals have to be present on the same flight, or can I complete the contract in multiple flights like vanilla?

[nightingale]

50 minutes ago, Enterprise0709 said:

A quick Question: If i have a contract for multiple kerbals, do all the kerbals have to be present on the same flight, or can I complete the contract in multiple flights like vanilla?

For Tourism Plus they need to be on the same flight to complete the contract (which is why they all have the same itinerary).

[Death Engineering]

4 hours ago, nightingale said:

For Tourism Plus they need to be on the same flight to complete the contract (which is why they all have the same itinerary).

Does that differ from stock behaviour?