The Clones of Bill Jeb and Bob (What should I do?)

[sadron]

Okay, I already have Bill, Jebediah, and Bob up in orbit in our space station. But I'm launching a new rocket, so why are they ALSO in my current rocket launch? Do I need to get them killed to have any new astronauts at all? >.>

Edited May 2, 2013 by sadron

[Warscribe]

You just got lucky! double the jeb, double the awesome!

[sal_vager]

This is a bug actually, KSP should not reselect in-use or dead Kerbals, but sometimes does

[Malachai]

This does explain how they never run out of kerbalnauts.

[sadron]

So what can I do to fix this? I want to have other astronauts and not having to subscribe to an astronaut cloning conspiracy.

[Warscribe]

crash the thing on purpose, go to VAB, select the rocket again and launch.

[zekes]

That is very Kerbal of you.

[sadron]

I dunno... I'd feel bad having to kill them <.< I'd like to avoid it if possible.

[Warscribe]

edit the persistance file?

[Specialist290]

If the ship has docking ports, dock it to the space station. The evil doppelgangers will try to overpower the real Jeb, Bill and Bob in a knife fight, but the good guys will win, because Good Always Prevails.

Alright, the "evil-clone-knife-fight" bit is some artistic license on my part, but putting two of the same kerbalnaut on the same ship seems to cause one of the duplicates to vanish, since there's technically only one in the actual persistence file; he's just showing up in two places at a time. At least, I think that's how it works.

[Guest]

If you try to put them on the same vessel, sometimes the doppelgängers will "merge" and become one. Sometimes they both vanish altogether, though. It may be a Kerbal/Anti-Kerbal thing.

[Malachai]

Either that or the four will meet, come into physical contact, and the resultant explosion would wipe the station out of space.

[Guest]

Either that or the four will meet, come into physical contact, and the resultant explosion would wipe the station out of space.

Ah. That would explain my second space station.

[Malachai]

Funny thing is, I think you posted just a second before I did, and we were following the same logic. I'm concerned for you.

[Specialist290]

I'm still partial to the "evil-clone-knife-fight" theory, myself. Then again, that's because I just invented it five minutes ago.

[Guest]

Funny thing is, I think you posted just a second before I did, and we were following the same logic. I'm concerned for you.

Nah, great minds and all that. Right?

[katateochi]

They can teleport between nearby craft too. Landed a craft with Corald next to another craft with his clone and he vanished from the first craft and was present in the other. I tried to go IVA and cycle throu the crew on the first craft and the camera went crazy and then I got this;

the main command pod became see-throu, quite cool, but wtf!

tbh I really hope they don't fix this bug anytime soon. I have plans for the clones, and a short KSP film idea around it if I have the time.

[ShachonianX]

This is a bug actually, KSP should not reselect in-use or dead Kerbals, but sometimes does

I killed Bill, Bob, and Jeb in one of my first rocket launches (the Blocky rocket). The later re-appeared in one of my launches of my Super Engine rocket. I killed them again.

[sadron]

So, what should I do?

[SocialCatastrophe]

I love this thread. I've had this problem, too. Although I took the "Double the Jeb, Double the Awesome" mindset. Until I docked at my station the first three were inhabiting with a ship carrying the other three and they ALL disappeared. Now, I subscribe to the Kerbal/Anti-Kerbal theory of mutual annihilation.

[Kerbol Prime]

Perhaps they are the future pilots, traveling back in time...Maybe they'll explode and destroy the laws of everything if you put them together...

[M5000]

This is a bug actually, KSP should not reselect in-use or dead Kerbals, but sometimes does

I really REALLY hope they don't change this bug, at least still make it sometimes possible to have identical Kerbals. I just love the thought that they come into some kind of quantum conundrum when they meet and their existence cancels each other out.. It's just so...Right...

[Westo454]

Just look at it on the bright side: you can use them for your rocketry experiments over, and over, and over, and over.

[sadron]

Well I did the most practical thing, and killed them, I now thankfully have 3 new kerbanauts while the original Bill, Jebediah and Bob are safely still on board the Kerbal Space Station - Alpha

[LaydeeDem]

They are shape-shifters from a parallel universe looking to bring about the end of your universe. They must be destroyed.