Scienceless career

[birdog357]

Is there a way to set up a career where you have all your parts unlocked from the beginning but have contracts available and limited funds? Basically a money based version of the science mode with all parts.

Edited November 10, 2015 by birdog357

[Gaarst]

You can start a normal career, then give you thousands of science using cheats or by editing your savefile and unlock everything.

[birdog357]

Tried having a bunch of science points at beginning. R&D was still lvl 1 so half of the parts were locked. What do I edit in the save file?

[JTpopcorn]

Give yourself enough funds to unlock R&D level 3

I really need to make a video to just referenece but...

Ksp directory>saves>whateversaveyouwant>persistent.sfs(open with notepad)>ctrl+f(find funds and science, set to whatever you want)>press save. Ta dah!

-JT

[silent_prtoagonist]

Just a note, you can set your starting funds and science in the difficulty options when you create a new game. However the most you can give yourself is 500,000 funds and 5000 science, which I just tested is enough to get you lvl 2 R&D and every 160 science node, plus a few 300s. Still it makes a nice middle of the road option if you want to skip the early game and don't want to edit configs.

[Hotblack Desiato]

open your persistent.sfs with the text-editor

search for "sci " (with the space)

you will find that:

name = ResearchAndDevelopment

scene = 7, 8, 5, 6

sci = 82.94647

(the value is my current amount of science points in one test game).

edit it to a value which pleases you.

the same can be done with "funds " (again, with a space).

name = Funding

scene = 7, 8, 5, 6

funds = 1812039.46059268

of course, copy your savegame, and keep in mind, that the quicksave-file is not altered, but it will be altered when saving a new quicksave.

[cantab]

IIRC if you hold down Mod+F12 you unlock extra cheat options to add or remove money, science, and rep.

[Mahnarch]

If you cheat by going into your files, you know what that makes you?

Edited November 9, 2015 by Mahnarch
video imbedding fault

[magico13]

I have a modlet for doing this called Tree Toppler. You don't have to upgrade any buildings to use it (even to unlock the full tree), and you can remove it when you're done if you want.

[SpaceNavy]

Point being, if Science can be a seperate game mode, this should too.

If you want to play Science mode why not just give yourself unlimited funds in career mode?

[JTpopcorn]

I think science was kept seperate because:

1. Prevent current saves from being screwed up with funds integration

2. Allow for ridiculous craft with limited parts, (look up videos of the tech tree being completed in 1 launch)

3. Bypass the funds, which to many people without contract mods, is still a grind

4. It just hasn't been taken out (Science mode was career before funds)

-JT

PS

Thread is solved.

[GeneralVeers]

If you cheat by going into your files, you know what that makes you?

Somebody who watches too much My Little Phony....?