Experience Points

[THobson]

Is there a list somewhere that shows what activities give them and how the skills of the Kerbals increase with them?

Edited July 31, 2015 by THobson

[Glaran K'erman]

Found this for ya, http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/104239-Leveling-Up-Kerbals-The-Training-Program

Update: Wiki is sometimes outdated but here's the link to that as well, http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Experience

Edited July 27, 2015 by Glaran K'erman

[Crown]

Perfect. Very useful information. I'm going to use this some day. Thanks for posting

[THobson]

That's really helpful. Thanks. So no experience points for planting a flag on Kerbol I see.

[capi3101]

That's really helpful. Thanks. So no experience points for planting a flag on Kerbol I see.

You're welcome to try it if you wish. Just don't expect great results...

One thing to note about the experience system is that the points aren't cumulative for a given body; each Kerbal is simply awarded for the highest scoring activity they performed. For example - let's say you're headed to Mun with Jeb, Bob and Bill. You flyby the Mun (2 pts) when you enter its SOI, and then later orbit the Mun (3 pts). Jeb and Bob land on the Mun (4.6 pts) and Jeb plants a flag (5 pts) before you head back to Kerbin. Jeb will have 5 points of Mun experience (even though he did all those activities). Bob will have 4.6 points of Mun experience (since he landed on the Mun), and Bill will have 3 (since all he did was orbit the Mun).

Then each level is based on total accumulated experience points: You reach one star at 2 points, two-stars at 8 points, three stars at 16 points, four stars at 32 points and five stars at 64 points.

[THobson]

In the above example if Jeb, Bill and Bob return to the Min on another trip and let's say Jeb does not land but Bill and Bob do and they both plant a flag each, do they all get points to add to what they have (i.e. Jeb gets +3 for orbiting and Bill and Bob get +5 each for planting the flag) or does Jeb get 0 pts, Bob get 0.4 pts and Bill get +2 puts to bring them both up to the points for planing a flag each (so they all end up at 5 pts each)? In other words does the non-cumulation of points for a given body apply to multiple trips to that body or does it only apply for a single trip?

[capi3101]

The non-accumulation applies over every trip you make to that body. So after the second trip, all three of them are at 5 points for Mun - in fact, if you look at it from the standpoint of just trying to gain experience, Jeb really had no reason to go back to Mun...

Assuming each of the guys orbited Kerbin prior to heading out to the Mun, and assuming they've made no trips out to Minmus at all, they'd be sitting at seven points total - two for orbiting Kerbin (the most you can ever get from Kerbin) and then five for planting flags on Mun (the most you can get from Mun). And they'd all three be on the cusp of the two-star rating (one point short - still just one-star).

That of course, assumes that you return them to Kerbin after each trip; points aren't awarded until Kerbals return to KSC. So you could in theory launch them to orbit, have them plant flags on Mun, then go plant flags on Minmus, and then shoot them into a brief Kerbolar orbit having done nothing else prior; they'd have zero experience points prior to the flight, but immediately upon return they'd all rocket straight to three-star status with a total of nineteen XP (two for orbiting Kerbin, five for planting flags on Mun, six points for planting flags on Minmus and then another six for orbiting Kerbol).

[Geschosskopf]

Thanks for the props about my training program post