Konseq

Good call.! Thanks for that tip, doing that fixed it!

Hello everyone, I cannot start the game since October'17. It crashes when loading after 20-30 secs. I hoped that future updates might fix the problem, but even re-installing via Steam didn't fix it ever since. The crash message asks me to send the crash report to the devs, so here I am sending it to you guys and hope someone will be able to help me: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JsJLiHcpGgSEgrCywTAYcKeaLH9QTvoH I have several crash reports, but I guess they will all be the same as the crash always happens in the same way. But if you request it, I can also zip them up if needed. Best regards, Konseq

Thank god, I am not the only one. This bug drove me nuts because I wasn't able to figure out what is going on and thought I made a mistake.

I really hope it helps figuring out what happend and possibly even fixing a bug. FYI: This is the not-edited persistent file. In a previous post I mentioned I changed the persistent file (deleting Nelners rescue contract), but before that I did a backup of the whole save folder and this is where those files in the dropbox came from,

Hi @sal_vager, I do. How do you want me to post them? EDIT: I worked my way through my saves. Turns out I didn't do both missions at the same time. In quicksave #7 I have not accepted the tourist mission yet. In quicksave #8 I already completed the Nelner tourist mission and already accepted the Nelner rescue mission. So the error occured in between quicksave #7 and quicksave #8. I created this dropbox folder with quicksave #1 to #10, all ships and backup folder. I didn't include all quicksaves tho (currently I am at quicksave #81) to keep the folder size low. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/g9pfn0rg782t32t/AAAhtCwudEKBW2YRsCzMRkSba?dl=0

I might have figured out why the contract was not working. I checked my save file further and found a finished tourist mission with another Kerbal named Nelner: The following happened: I did the tourist mission for Nelner and while doing the tourist mission, I also rescued the Kerbonaut named Nelner from his vessel, and terminated the vessel. So I had a vessel with two Nelners, one tourist, one Kerbonaut. Finally after landing back on Kerbin and recovering the vessel the mission system registered that Nelner had returned, but it only finished the tourist mission, not the rescue mission. Now Kerbonaut Nelner was not anymore in orbit, was not in the astronaut complex, but his rescue contract still existed. I didn't notice at the moment when it happened and kept doing other missions. Until I wanted to finish that mission days later and was stuck with the problem... Since I finally today realized what happened, I tried fixing it by editing Nelner's name in the save files, but that didn't help (maybe I did it wrong?). Anyhow, I deleted Nelner's rescue contract and now my problem is "solved". But this bug can happen again if two Kerbals have the same name, so my wish is to turn this thread into a bug report, so it will get fixed. I really hope it will get fixed because I got really annoyed, even stopped playing for a few days, and I spent several hours trying to fix it.

Hello everyone, I already posted about this on reddit, but no-one was able to help, so I hope you are able to. https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/5aepbl/rescue_mission_orbit_of_vessel_not_showing/?st=iv12tvg2&sh=dbb5a093 In career mode I accepted the rescue mission so save Nelner Kerman. Unfortunately the vessel isn't visible in the tracking station or map. (That visible vessel is Kimny's vessel who I already rescued and didn't terminate.) Also Nelner is not showing in the Astronaut Complex as other Kerbals do, who you have to rescue. I found old threads of other people with the same problem, but no solution for the problem. See here: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/106870-cant-find-the-kerbals-in-orbit-i-need-to-rescue/ Is there any solution to make Nelner's vessel visible? I don't want to cancel the mission or cheat via editing the save files. Currently I only use MechJeb. I used to use HyperEdit, but I dont have the current version for KSP1.2 so that's inactive. HyperEdit files are still in the GameData folder tho. Here is a screenshot: Those are the data from the persistent save file, if that helps: