Return of random crew assignments

[Sampa]

Ok, first of all, I didn't get onto this game until about a year or so ago. By this point, I have noticed, the crew assignments seems to want to default to a single crew. What I would like is to have a return of crew assignment randomization (including the orange-suit Kerman brothers) based on your existing hired crew (or at least a setting to turn this on/off).

[Bill Phil]

Now you can set crews and leave them that way. They're perma-assigned. That's good.

If it was random, then you might get a non-pilot or something in single kerbal craft....

[Sampa]

What I meant was that it would randomly assign them while in the VAB/Hangar. At that point, you still have tiem to change the crew. Crew Randomization should also assist in finding uses for the new female kerbals being added.

[Armchair Rocket Scientist]

What I meant was that it would randomly assign them while in the VAB/Hangar. At that point, you still have tiem to change the crew. Crew Randomization should also assist in finding uses for the new female kerbals being added.

This is probably one of those "1.1" updates, but I'd recommend implementing it by means of a "randomize" button in the crew selection interface of the VAB/SPH. When pressed, it could randomly assign available kerbals to each seat in a crewed module. (doing this one module at a time means that you can, say, manually assign crew to the MK3 cockpit on your spaceplane, randomly fill the Hitchiker in the Cargo Bay, and leave the science lab you're launching empty). The button would ordinarily select crew regardless of role. However, if the vessel currently has no Kerbal of a certain role assigned, that role would take priority (e.g. if Jeb and Bill are in your MK2 plane's cockpit, the first Kerbal assigned to the passenger cabin will be a scientist if one is available. In addition, by right-clicking the randomize button, you could override this and force the game to assign crew of a certain role. Finally, using shift-click or alt-click, you could tell the game to randomly fill the remaining seats of a partially filled module, instead of the default which is booting any already-assigned crew out of the part and assigning new ones.

Possibly the right-click menu could also allow you to tell the game to prioritize high or low experience.

[Bill Phil]

This is probably one of those "1.1" updates, but I'd recommend implementing it by means of a "randomize" button in the crew selection interface of the VAB/SPH. When pressed, it could randomly assign available kerbals to each seat in a crewed module. (doing this one module at a time means that you can, say, manually assign crew to the MK3 cockpit on your spaceplane, randomly fill the Hitchiker in the Cargo Bay, and leave the science lab you're launching empty). The button would ordinarily select crew regardless of role. However, if the vessel currently has no Kerbal of a certain role assigned, that role would take priority (e.g. if Jeb and Bill are in your MK2 plane's cockpit, the first Kerbal assigned to the passenger cabin will be a scientist if one is available. In addition, by right-clicking the randomize button, you could override this and force the game to assign crew of a certain role. Finally, using shift-click or alt-click, you could tell the game to randomly fill the remaining seats of a partially filled module, instead of the default which is booting any already-assigned crew out of the part and assigning new ones.

Possibly the right-click menu could also allow you to tell the game to prioritize high or low experience.

There's an assign crew button. Don't know about random...

[DoToH]

[...] Crew Randomization should also assist in finding uses for the new female kerbals being added.

Aside of other "uses" that male kerbals may find, I suppose female kerbals will have the same traits as male ones (i.e. pilots, scientists and engineers), so gender will be just aesthetics.

Maybe I'm wrong....

[pandaman]

What I meant was that it would randomly assign them while in the VAB/Hangar. At that point, you still have tiem to change the crew. Crew Randomization should also assist in finding uses for the new female kerbals being added.

Erm. .. I think you meant to say that it will help to ensure that females will take their place in the space program alongside their male colleagues on an equal opportunities basis.

[Sampa]

Erm. .. I think you meant to say that it will help to ensure that females will take their place in the space program alongside their male colleagues on an equal opportunities basis.

yeah, exactly (forgive me if I was not clear...never been the greatest at getting my ideas out)