How Do I Get Scientists?

[jrolson]

How do I hire scientists? I don't see any?

Edited September 3, 2015 by jrolson

[TheMoonRover]

There's nothing to do but wait a few in-game days until the applicants list refreshes.

[Claw]

Yes indeed. You could also hire all the applicants on the list, and it will repopulate (by leaving and coming back), but that's rather expensive.

Cheers,

-Claw

[Superfluous J]

You can also go into another save and get a few names of scientists from there. Hire a Kerbal, and then before using him/her for anything edit your Persistent.sfs file and change his/her name to the Scientists's name. Bam. You now have a scientist.

The "do it before doing anything else" isn't mandatory, but you can get some weirdness when a Kerbal does something first and then you change their name.

[jrolson]

Ok thanks for the tips guys!

[sal_vager]

Also you can usually rescue all the scientists you need from low Kerbin orbit.

[DocMoriarty]

I keep rescueing just about every Kerbal from anywhere in the Kerbin system to fill my ranks. Currently my next Kerbal to hire would cost 600k+ funds and really can't afford that. But I often get the same type Kerbal multiple times in a row, right now I have lots of (currently useless) pilots, a few scientists and definitly not enough engineers.