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

[Death Engineering]

Hello nightingale..

I missed the 'add note' part in PayPal this morning but wanted to say that your contract packs in my last play-through of KSP were the most fun I've had since I started playing (dare I admit >10k hours?). I also had Station Science and USI-LS mods installed and flying massive and busy tourism/science missions out to Jool was a great challenge. 

 

Thanks!

 

Best,

Chuck Death - DeathEngineering

[nightingale]

20 minutes ago, Death Engineering said:

Hello nightingale..

I missed the 'add note' part in PayPal this morning but wanted to say that your contract packs in my last play-through of KSP were the most fun I've had since I started playing (dare I admit >10k hours?). I also had Station Science and USI-LS mods installed and flying massive and busy tourism/science missions out to Jool was a great challenge. 

 

Thanks!

 

Best,

Chuck Death - DeathEngineering

Awesome, thanks a lot for that!  I've got another contract pack in the early planning stages, and I'll be working on it once Strategia is done.  Hopefully it'll be ready for your next playthrough (or perhaps the one after that).

[blu3wolf]

On 5/7/2015, 10:16:30, nightingale said:

This is a stock bug - Arsonide is aware of it, so I assume it'll be fixed in 1.1. Try putting him on a vessel and then recovering through the flight view​ (any other recovery method will result in the tourist not leaving).

I have a somewhat similar but not really issue.

I have just completed Tito's contract, but I have failed it, due to him being 'killed'. I am slightly peeved about the game concluding this, as I recovered him fairly and squarely. However, the manner of recovery was... non standard. Specifically, that I used StageRecovery. We slapped a pair of parachutes on the passenger fuselage, and a heat shield, and just ejected them off the end of the rocket. StageRecovery brought Bill and Tito back just fine - both were mentioned on the SR popup, and Bill is back in the Astronaut Complex. Tito is nowhere to be found, and I have the perks of having failed the contract. 

Question one, is how do I edit my save file to show that I completed the contract rather than failed it?

Question two, is whether this interaction between CC and SR is something that should be fixed by Squad, something that should be fixed by SR, or something that should be fixed by CC?

Thanks for the help.

 

EDIT: Question one is low priority, have just made some changes to my persistence file and will be testing them shortly... fingers crossed!

Guess I will have to make a point of recovering Tourists 'normally' rather than with StageRecovery.

 

Edit2: question one is mebbe medium priority for me... Im not sure where to add TouristCount and TouristLowOrbitCount? Other than that, I think I fixed everything else associated with the contract.

Edit3: If I have this right, I add those keys into the DATA section of the PersistentDataStore SCENARIO... but I suspect I have to add them underneath a node. Which I dont know the name of.

Edit4: I feel like this would be easier if I knew how to code. Would this be easier if I knew C#?

 

Edit5: well, it no longer throws an argument out of bounds exception when I load it, so thats good. I think I fixed it? Fingers crossed. I feel like the more important thing for the thread at least, is seeing what could be done to make these mods interface better, rather than details of how to fix the save file when the current behavior happens due to user error.

Edited December 5, 2015 by blu3wolf

[nightingale]

I'll need to look into the StageRecovery compatibility, likely they need to be firing off a specific event that they are not firing.  Raised [#384] to track.

As far as the other stuff goes, you are far, FAR better off just completing the contract manually through the debug menu.  Accept the contract again (it should show up again even though you've failed it), and then go to the alt-f12 debug, and find the contract on the contracts tab.  There should be a button that says "complete" or something like that, which you can press to complete it.  That will trigger everything you need to progress to the other tourism contracts.

[blu3wolf]

Ah. Yes, if I had found the debug menu that would likely have worked much better and faster.

As it stands I did manage to get other tourism contracts so Im pretty sure I did it correctly. I added the tourist count and low orbit count key/value pairs into a second DATA section in the data store, and it seems to have worked.

I did look for the debug menu but couldnt see a button for it, and did not recall it was a key combo to display. My bad. Cheers for the tip for next time!

 

 

 

 

[Mister Spock]

This mod looks fun!  I love the look of neon in space.

One question: I assume mods includes new parts for the casino and hotel?  How many parts in all, roughly? 

Thanks for all your work on this and your other mods, Nightingale.

[nightingale]

29 minutes ago, Mister Spock said:

This mod looks fun!  I love the look of neon in space.

One question: I assume mods includes new parts for the casino and hotel?  How many parts in all, roughly? 

Thanks for all your work on this and your other mods, Nightingale.

No new parts. The casino/hotel have requirements for various types of parts (antennas, lights) and crew capacity, but you can use whatever parts you want (stock or mods) to meet the requirements. 

[Mister Spock]

Ah, I see.  So people are making their neon "hotel" signs using lights and such?

[Stone Blue]

Nice resorts,casinos & hotels everyone...

Speaking of lights, has anybody used these ones? (from the maker of ASET):

Stackable In-line Lights
 

And especially these beauties:

Deployable Lights

[Mister Spock]

Neither of those links works for me, Stone Blue.

[CovertJaguar]

The Tourists spawned are supposed to be Tourist profession right? I got a pilot and scientist on my first contract. o.O

Edited December 15, 2015 by CovertJaguar

[nightingale]

15 hours ago, CovertJaguar said:

The Tourists spawned are supposed to be Tourist profession right? I got a pilot and scientist on my first contract. o.O

Whoops!  I must've somehow broke this in Contract Configurator 1.9.0!  I'll fix this for the next release.

[bertibott]

hi,

I seem to ba having a bit of trouble with the investor tour contract:

I built a small taxi, drove up to the investor and put her in the taxi. (I switched to the investor kerbal, walked her the last few steps and got in). Now that she is in the taxi the contract screen (the built-in one as well as CapCom) don't have the "Crew: Beagrid Kerman: On Board" ticked.

So I thought "maybe it has to be an EVA?". Whe she gets out of the vehicle it says that the "Crew..." condition is met. So I walked her to her first stop (the Space Plane Hangar) but it does not tricker the wayoint. I even climbed on top of the dammned thing but nothing happens. What am I doing wrong?

Edited December 18, 2015 by bertibott

[nightingale]

2 hours ago, bertibott said:

hi,

I seem to ba having a bit of trouble with the investor tour contract:

I built a small taxi, drove up to the investor and put her in the taxi. (I switched to the investor kerbal, walked her the last few steps and got in). Now that she is in the taxi the contract screen (the built-in one as well as CapCom) don't have the "Crew: Beagrid Kerman: On Board" ticked.

So I thought "maybe it has to be an EVA?". Whe she gets out of the vehicle it says that the "Crew..." condition is met. So I walked her to her first stop (the Space Plane Hangar) but it does not tricker the wayoint. I even climbed on top of the dammned thing but nothing happens. What am I doing wrong?

Raised [#406] - looks like I must've somehow broken this in a recent Contract Configurator release.  I'll try to get this resolved ASAP.

[nightingale]

3 hours ago, bertibott said:

 

Oh silly forums and your indestructible quote boxes...

Anyway, this will be fixed for 1.9.2, but in the meantime you can grab the dev dll here and it should fix the issue for you.

[cordilon]

Hey folks,

I still get the failing asteroid contract issue as described by qm3ster some pages ago. First I thought it was related to mod compatibility, but trying a clean install with only ContractConfigurator (1.9.1), TourismPlus (1.3.0) and HyperEdit installed showed the same result: Contract fails instantly after switching to Tracking Station or launching a vessel.

My KSP version is 1.0.5 32bit and I tested the issue on a new profile which I stuffed full of money via savefile edit and unlocked all buildings and tech tree afterwards. Letting an asteroid first enter Kerbin SOI and then accepting the contract didn't help either.

Resolving this would be awesome, because I think this is one of the more interesting contract concepts and a worthwhile one, too!
 

[nightingale]

Raised [#409].  No idea why that's still broken.

[smjjames]

Can you actually get funds off of a space casino with this? heh

I'm trying to decide whether to just go with the stock tourist stuff for my first career game or use this thing to avoid the silly/impossible stuff.

[nightingale]

7 hours ago, smjjames said:

Can you actually get funds off of a space casino with this? heh

I'm trying to decide whether to just go with the stock tourist stuff for my first career game or use this thing to avoid the silly/impossible stuff.

If you build the casino it's meant to be a money maker - so you can get a lot of funds from bringing tourists there (something like 10 times the value of a stock tourist).

[smjjames]

If you screw up or cancel the investor contract, will I be able to get it again? Because I activated the contract thinking that the tourists (well, it's a tour, so....) would show up in the crew roster rather than spawned at KSC. Then, thinking that they would stay where they are (I didn't heed the warning that there was, in a way, limited time), I timewarped or something and they disappeared. Since the investors were nowhere to be found, I had to cancel the contract.

[nightingale]

They aren't supposed to disappear, so that's probably a bug (can you raise it in GitHub for me?).  The contract should come back though.

[smjjames]

I forget what I did exactly, but basically I went to them as an active 'vessel', then decided to just leave them for later and continued whatever I was doing. I've hit the disappearing kerbal thing before (a long while ago), sometimes if you leave a Kerbal EVA on KSC, theres a chance they might disappear.

[CovertJaguar]

KSC likes to delete anything left nearby. I've seen it delete kerbals before.

[mcortez]

I got the investor tour contract this evening and I was pretty excited to try and start the casino construction contract.  But I also ran into problems with getting the investor to be recognized as part of the crew.  Dropped in here and saw the development DLL, so I saved and exited KSP - put the DLL in place and restarted the game.  It would now recognize the investor as crew, but I never got the waypoints and driving to the specified locations didn't work either.

So I went back to the Space Center and blammo -- the investor and my pilot both disappeared from my tour car

I ended up using Alt-F12 to complete the contract, but I wasn't offered any construction contracts.  I went ahead and deleted the completed contract out of my persistent save in hopes of being offered the contract again in the future.

[nightingale]

15 minutes ago, mcortez said:

I got the investor tour contract this evening and I was pretty excited to try and start the casino construction contract.  But I also ran into problems with getting the investor to be recognized as part of the crew.  Dropped in here and saw the development DLL, so I saved and exited KSP - put the DLL in place and restarted the game.  It would now recognize the investor as crew, but I never got the waypoints and driving to the specified locations didn't work either.

So I went back to the Space Center and blammo -- the investor and my pilot both disappeared from my tour car

I ended up using Alt-F12 to complete the contract, but I wasn't offered any construction contracts.  I went ahead and deleted the completed contract out of my persistent save in hopes of being offered the contract again in the future.

I'll do some testing to see what's going on with this one.