Add a Kerbal's job title to the in game HUD

[Michaelbak]

Hey small suggestion but could you add the job title of a kerbal to the in game HUD? It's really annoying to have to try to remember all their titles byor quit your flight, visit the staff building, view the title, and then re-control the craft just to find the kerbal with the desired position to perform a job specific action. I have a space station with over 20 kerbals and it's a chore to try to find an engineer whenever something like a solar panel accidentally breaks. Please add this to the game it would save a lot of headaches and just plain makes sense.

Just make it so the little kerbal IVA window in the lower right would say like:

"Jebediah Kerman"

"Pilot"

[Guest]

I think you can get your Kerbals job title from the map view.

Edit : yeah, I just fired the game up for the first time in weeks just to confirm. No need for all the mumbo-jumbo. Just press "m" to enter map view, then click the little picture of a kerbal on the right side.

Edited February 25, 2015 by Otis

[Michaelbak]

Thanks for the tip but I don't really see any "Mumbo Jumbo" about simply adding their job title below their name in the HUD.

It states it in the astronaut complex

It states it in the map view tab

It states it in the tracking station

I just don't understand why it doesn't in the in game view. All it would do is make the game's experience more streamlined and easier to approach.

[RainDreamer]

I would just prefer to have color-coded suits. More intuitive and less screen clutter.

[Superfluous J]

I agree with RainDreamer, but just having the information in any reasonable way would be fine for me.

I don't want to have to go through the Mumbo Jumbo of going to map view, hitting backspace possibly, and then clicking the icon. I'd rather just know by looking at the Kerbal who is already on the screen.

[r4pt0r]

dashes of color on the helmets, maybe also as armbands. though armbands have gotten a bad rap in the last 85 years.

I think Red, Blue and Yellow, were the options in some random mod?

[Guest]

By mumbo-jumbo, I meant having to go through the loading screens. The map view is pretty easy to get to. Could the system be better? Yeah sure. I was simply trying to help the op as he didn't seem to know the info existed on the map view. Nor was I trying to imply it couldn't be improved. I guess I should have been clearer on the mumbo-jumbo comment.