MaliciousMuffin

To be honest, I've not paid much attention to carbon up until now. However, it looks like It would work very well with this app. Carbon can already be used to pick the cheapest craft for a mission, expanding on that would be great. You did some really nice work with the tools you've written so far. An unrelated question: Would you be interested in writing an app that balances prices of modded parts based on their statistics? I've got some formulas I'm quite happy with for engines and resource tanks, but I wrote my version in ruby which makes it a pain for any non-dev to actually use. That would be possible, but balancing the mission reward based on the crew requirement can be quite tricky. I might do random crew requirements later on, but not as a priority. For now all those would need to be seperate missions. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

Penalties for crew death and falling debries are indeed very harsh compared to current mission rewards. Missions as a whole are not in the least balanced right now and serve a pure placeholder function. I'm currently working on expanding the mission logic (adding victory conditions thus allowing missions to take multiple flights to complete, showing a mission description, creating your own missions, all that stuff) Doing debries penalty per mass can be tricky from an end user standpoint, but I should be able to make either an option for those willing to keep an eye on their dropped stages. Minimum crew for contracts could be tricky. When adding mission descriptions, having randomly generated crew requirements could make it contradict the mission description. I'd rather have multiple missions that are marked as either manned or unmanned. What could be randomly genereted however are orbit parameters like inclination, long/lat of geostationary sattelites etc. This sounds like a great idea for mod creators to make expansions for this.I'll plan to handle this with mission packs. You'll be able to select from a list of mission packs that are either premade, user generated or created by yourself. If mod authors are indeed interested in creating their own missions, I'd gladly code in an indicator that shows if a mission pack is made by the official mod author or someone else. Asking for mods at the start of a campaign can be problematic simply because of the sheer volume of mods that come out almost daily, but I think my solution can be almost as good.

I would be very interested in that. As I understand it, you'd be willing to write a desktop application that either integrates into the game or checks savegame data and communicates with the website. Or are you talking about fully converting it to a desktop client-server app? In the first case I can start working on an API fairly soon.

Version 0.16 on a new host Note: If you encounter any bugs, post here or send me a PM. I'll try and take care of any problems as fast as possible. What does it look like? Here, all active missions are expanded, with the default state being collapsed. Hovering over the balance gives a detailed breakdown over income and expenses. What do you mean by “Campaign Managerâ€Â? Basically, it’s a web app that allows you to create and keep track of your own campaign. I started working on this when I tried to use [LordStimpy’s Campaign ruleset](“forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/11778-Stimpy-s-Campaign-Mode-Budget-Rulesâ€Â) (more up-to date thread lost in forum crash). I really liked the idea of keeping track of money and trying to build the cheapest rockets possible to achieve a goal. However, I did not want to keep track of it all on a sheet of paper, some means to keep track of it digitally (and I do not mean Word or Excel) was needed. What can I do with it? At the moment, It allows you to either start a new mission on your own with an OK mission reward, but no penalties on failure. Alternatively you can request 3rd Party contracts. Third parties have modifiers to reward, time limit, advance and penalties on failure that are applied to missions belonging to those parties. Usually that means a bigger reward for completing a mission, but less time to do so and a penalty should you abort the mission. Once you’ve created a mission you can assign Flights (for lack of a better word. Launches? Rockets? Attempts?) to them. Those have a cost (building a rocket obviously costs money) and can either succeed or fail. A successful flight automatically completes the mission, but if you fail with a flight you can try again. You can also specifiy the amount of kerbals that died on a flight and the amount of debries dropped on those poor kerbals below for added penalties. To give you a bit more control over how much a mission pays, you can specify a custom amount of money you wish to receive or loose at the end of each flight. How does it integrate into the game? It does not. You create a campaign, missions and flights ond the website, then go into KSP and try to fullfill whatever goals you have set. Once your launch was succesfull or failed horribly, you go back to the website and enter your results. Writing a plugin that does all that for you would be somewhat out of my league - or would at the very least require way more time than what I have ony my hands right now. Do I need mods/plugins for it to work? See above. Nonetheless either MechJeb, Kerbal Engineer Redux, or some other plugin that can calculate your ship’s cost is highly recommended. Will I be able to create my own missions? Yes, you can create your own missions and use them in your campaigns or use mission packs that others have made public. What use is this if practically no mod I use has balanced prices for its parts? Here you go Any planned features? Lots Time management (time advances when you complete flights or missions (or manually). Mission rewards dependant on time. Linked Missions. Make missions require the successful completion of other missions as a prerequisite. More premade missions. Reputation for 3rd parties, influencing rewards, advance %, time limit and penalty on failure. You're only doing this to sell my mail adress or steal mail/password combinations Don't use a valid email or use a junk mail if you don't trust me. And don't use the same mail/password combination everywhere, it's as simple as that. There is NO email verification required. A valid email is only needed to reset your password. Also, Passwords are saved using BCrypt, which puts your password through an enormous amount of hash cycles to make reverse-engineering even stolen password hashes practically impossible. You can check all this in the sourcecode if you are familiar with ruby on rails. If you are really distrustful, just host the app yourself. Give me technical details The web app is written in Ruby on Rails 4.0.0beta1, uses devise for user authentication and cancan for user authorisation. The design is powered by Twitters Bootstrap. Most links and forms on the page use ajax to update the site, so disabling JS will most likely break it. If you want you can visit the project over on Github. It’s licensed under the MIT License, so feel free to do with it whatever you want. I’m not going into how to host your own rails app here, there are plenty of guides on the internet as to how to do it. Last but not least, I’d like to thank my brother for helping me out with the design, JS, any tougher programming/rails questions I had and for pushing me to write cleaner code (for what it’s worth. At some point I kinda threw that over board I’m afraid) Changelog 1.6: Mission Packs from other users are now displayed below your own packs Click on importable mission packs to see a list of missions they add To use them in your own campaigns, first add them to your pool by clicking on the checkmark Only mission packs in your pack pool can be added to your campaigns Fixed an issue with long mod lists that used to destroy the layout Fixed empty mission packs from showing up for anyone but the author