Kerbal Leveling?

[MrOsterman]

I found one mod that suggested it would work but I didn't like the idea that removing the mod would also remove the leveling.  

Here's what I'm looking for:  Instant Experience.  My Kerbal flies past the moon and she gets that star of experience.  She lands on Duna, and she levels.  I would like to not make the "attend debriefing" a mandatory part of my flight planning when I could just leave my Kerbals living on a space station instead.  The problem is that, as I said, the one mod I found has a disclaimer that if the mod is removed the leveling goes away.  I'm assuming that means they'd get it back when they DID go back to base for Debrief but I'm also nervous too.

So far I'm running nearly 100% vanilla and I like it that way, I'm just wearing out on the constantly having to have my flight crews "Check in" at KSC when they could just as easily do that debrief at the Olympus Station.

[meyerweb]

I know ContractConfigurator can award XP instantly if you include the appropriate CC setting, so it’s clearly possible somehow.  Possibly Module Manager would offer a way?  Not sure.

[meyerweb]

Followup: I just stumbled across Magico13’s Modlets, the first of which (Field Experience) sounds like pretty much exactly what you’re after.

[magico13]

4 minutes ago, meyerweb said:

Followup: I just stumbled across Magico13’s Modlets, the first of which (Field Experience) sounds like pretty much exactly what you’re after.

I'm pretty sure that's the one he mentions finding. Since it doesn't write the Flight Log to the Career Log it's not permanent. The only time the Career Log gets written is on recovery, doing it more frequently has a non-zero chance of messing things up (minimally it might screw with the flight history in your save, which might just do "visual" damage rather than actually break anything, but why risk it?)

 

Field Experience doesn't write anything permanent to the save or the Kerbals, that's why you have to keep it installed to keep the levels. It's that way so that it can't accidentally mess anything up. It's like 10 lines of code and all it does is calculate the current XP value of the Flight Log + Career Log and recompute the level based on the new XP. When you recover the Kerbals their Flight Log is written to the Career Log, whether you have Field Experience installed or not. Removing it is safe because it doesn't change anything, you just lose the levels because the Stock system doesn't include the Flight Log in the calculations, just the Career Log.

 

Stock: Compute level from Career Log

Field Experience: Compute level from Career Log + Flight Log. That's the only change.

[Evanitis]

I don't get it. If you want a functionality a mod provides, use it. It won't just disappear.