Automatic Contracts?

[Sampa]

Ok, I recently noticed something when I went to go to Mission Control to go collect some new contracts. However, when I got there, I already had some new ones that I did not personally say I would do already active. Is this new? Are contracts now given automatically?

[Tex_NL]

Some are. Like the 'set record' ones.

[GluttonyReaper]

Yep, this is a new feature - in early career, certain contracts (speed/altitude records, for example) are automatically accepted, but don't count towards the max contracts in mission control. It's to help get over the annoying grind of having to repetitively go back to mission control and fly several flights to achieve what can be done in just two or three flights.

[Sampa]

ok, makes sense! I was about to go yell at Jeb for accepting contracts I did not tell him he could!

[cephalo]

Actually a few more should probably be automatic. There are a few important ones at the beginning that will cause you to miss out on important science points if you forget to take them. I missed out on the leave the atmosphere one, just because I thought I had selected it but didn't.