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Kerbal Sorting -- Any Interest?


JonDahm

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For about as long as I've played this game (which is significantly longer than I've had a forum account, I promise :P), I've wanted to be able to sort the kerbals I have and the ones available for hire so that I can more easily select someone I'm looking for. I've been doing some exploratory work, and I'm fairly confident now that I can write a mod that will sort kerbals by various variables, including:

  • name
  • profession
  • level
  • gender
  • total flight time number of flights
  • time since last flight (looks like there's not an actual entry in there for this! oops.)

and any combination of the above, ascending or descending. I'm still unsure about whether I can sort by profession (I'm still trying to figure out how to determine a kerbal's profession), but I'm sure there's a way to do it. I just figured out how to determine a kerbal's profession! I don't really have any code to show yet -- I've only got some really hacked together code that swaps a couple kerbals in the Astronaut Complex -- but I'll definitely share when I get a proof of concept.

What kind of interest do you all think the general community would have in this?

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I once put 16 Kerbals in a plane. Usually I'll never have more than 6-8 Kerbals hired. For that number I won't need a sorting button. But that is only my playstyle.

There are people who play with a lot of Kerbals (let's say: 10 to Duna, 20 to Eve, etc.). They might be interested in your mod.

If you add a small window (with show/hide button) to the flight scene which tells the player what Kerbals are on board _and_ their professions more players will be interested.

I can help you with that. I started this small mod a while ago but stopped working on it.

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If you add a small window (with show/hide button) to the flight scene which tells the player what Kerbals are on board _and_ their professions more players will be interested.

That certainly sounds interesting, but I'm fairly certain I've already seen mods that show you what Kerbals are on board your ship. I'm concerned about duplicating work. I'll keep it in mind, though, because if those mods don't sort the lists of kerbals in any way, this may still be useful in that area. Thank you for the suggestion!

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