How to: Get a Kerbal out of an AR-202....

[tg626]

Yes, seriously. I just took my first orbital rescue mission post 1.0 and here's what I found when I pulled up next to the stranded ship.

Note the portrait (I have my own mod installed that adds IVAs to crewable parts without an IVA already - or it's supposed to, either my conditional in MM is bad or somehow the AR-202 got a crew capacity...)

At any rate, I thought it was odd enough to post and hoped someone would have a suggestion (I tried "EVA" and I get a message that the part has no hatch )

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Just checked and yep, the AR-202 has a line "crewCapacity = 0" and my MM config only checks for the presence of "crewCapacity" not if it is or is not a positive value...

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I guess the stupid contract generator doesn't check the actual value of crewcapacity either :huh:

Edited July 8, 2015 by tg626

[Snark]

Yes, this sort of thing can happen... for example, the UKS mod currently has a bug that can cause this to happen with all the stock probe cores (so you can get a kerbal in a Stayputnik, for example).

There are really only two options:

1. Grapple it with a klaw and bring the whole thing back to Kerbin.

2. Make a trivial one-line edit to your game save file to turn it into, say, a Mk1 lander can, then re-load the game.

I normally hate the idea of manually editing a save file, but I confess I've been going with option #2 when I run into this problem, only because #1 is even worse for me (the klaw is so buggy that I seem to hit the kraken every time I ever use one-- I just never use it for any purpose ever, anymore).

[tg626]

I opted for #3 - Hyper edit it to a landing. I executed all the required maneuvers, I rendezvoused with it and then returned the rescue ship and recovered it, so to me it was more or less like #2. Although, I think I'll use #2 in the future.

[NathanKell]

This is a bug in UKS.

[tg626]

I don't have UKS (USI Kolonization System). And I just got another one, Probodyne Okto this time. At least now I know that I can look in the Astronaut Center "assigned list" and see what the stranded Kerbals are flying.

[kerbiloid]

Turing Test is successfully completed. MechJeb is a reasonable being.

[Wemb]

Is his name Hal? If so, leave him there.

[tg626]

OK, my trouble is that my own crew portraits mod has the same bug as UKS. I'll release a fix later today. released at kerbal stuff.

Edited July 10, 2015 by tg626

[Yemo]

Do you by any chance have SETIctt installed, but did not install the requirements of SETIctt?