Name to speciality function

[tomf]

Has anyone ever worked out the function that ransforms a kerbal's name into their speciality?

I tried save file editing to create A, B and C Kerman but they weren't all different specialities as I was expecting.

[Thomassino]

You mean like: Pilot Kerman, Scientist Kerman, CrashDummy Kerman etc.?

[Landwalker]

Has anyone ever worked out the function that ransforms a kerbal's name into their speciality?

I tried save file editing to create A, B and C Kerman but they weren't all different specialities as I was expecting.

That's because "Kerman" is part of the determination, too. For instance, if you change Jebediah Kerman to Jebediah Kermanov, he becomes an Engineer.

I don't know what the actual function/formula is, though, I'm afraid.

[Geschosskopf]

I really wish the game would not check for class names (pilot, engineer, scientist) but instead would check whether the Kerbal had a particular skill. That way, you could create your own Kerbal classes that would actually work.

[Brotoro]

I was eeally hoping Squad would change things so that the kerbal's specialty class was stored as a setting in the save file, since they did that with the flag that determines the ... of the kerbal. Alas, no.

[RyanRising]

I was really hoping Squad would change things so that the kerbal's specialty class was stored as a setting in the save file, since they did that with the flag that determines the ... of the kerbal. Alas, no.

Yeah, what on Kerbin made them do that?

[tomf]

I assumed that is was going to be something fairly simple like adding the ascii values of every letter and then taking the result mod 3 as the profession, but it seems more complicated than that.

I think it was stated that they wanted Kerbals witht the same name to have the same profession across every save game, which is certainly easier this way.

[John FX]

I forget what it is called but there is a mod that shows the speciality and skill of each kerbal on their portrait picture in flight. very handy.

[tomf]

I have that mod, it is by DMagic. I'm asking because

A. I'm curious.

B. I want to be able to know what speciality a Kerbal has before I agree to rescue him.

[Dirty Bob]

I have that mod, it is by DMagic. I'm asking because

A. I'm curious.

B. I want to be able to know what speciality a Kerbal has before I agree to rescue him.

That's cold. All of those poor pilots will be floating around with false hope.