Contract refusing to complete (maybe a bug?)

[HQtopgun1]

Unless I'm just an idiot, I'm pretty sure this contract should be satisfied.

[Gaarst]

It might be that Eve's oceans are not considered as surface... :/

[aidyn89]

I've never been to Eve myself, but if I follow kerbin's example, the science reports always says "... taken on Kerbin surface" Or "... taken in Kerbin water" or something like that. If that's the case, I do think that Gaarst is right in thinking the water isn't considered the surface.

Edited September 8, 2015 by aidyn89

[Finox]

I'm having the same problem with a contract to return ore from Minmus, it says every condition has been met except the "Land your Ore on Kerbin" one. Like the above issue my craft is bobbing in the ocean, but the contract won't complete, KSP simply isn't recognizing a craft in the ocean as being landed on that body.

Edited September 30, 2015 by Finox

[yorshee]

Landing and splashing down are considered to be two separate situations.

[BudgetHedgehog]

KSP simply isn't recognizing a craft in the ocean as being landed on that body.

landed on that body.

landed

land

Water is not land.

[Finox]

Water is not land.

So? I "landed" on the water, just like a seaplane lands on the water, we don't say that they splashdown.

Seriously though, if the ore was returned to Kerbin where it can be recovered, then who cares if its on physical land or not? If a space agency does a sample return they don't care if the return vehicle is picked up by a boat or a truck they still have their sample. I figured the point of such a mission was as a test of your ability to collect and retrieve 12 tons of ore from another body, not to see if you could hit land. This is WAD then?

[Alshain]

I agree with the OP, this should satisfy the contract. Nitpicking whether it is land or water liquid is not in the spirit of the contract. It wants you to be on the surface and the water liquid has a surface.

[Arsonide]

I agree with the OP, this should satisfy the contract. Nitpicking whether it is land or water liquid is not in the spirit of the contract. It wants you to be on the surface and the water liquid has a surface.

This issue has popped up in the past, and I'd rather keep the splashdown objective and the landing objective separate on planets with oceans. So to address the issue, I have reworded the contract to "make ground contact" to alleviate any confusion.

Edited October 8, 2015 by Arsonide

[Kobymaru]

This issue has popped up in the past, and I'd rather keep the splashdown objective and the landing objective separate on planets with oceans. So to address the issue, I have reworded the contract to "make ground contact" to alleviate any confusion.

Is it perhaps possible to clarify the "land on land" objective a bit more? The english language is a bit confusing to me (but apparently I'm not alone), I was pretty sure that "to land" meant just getting down safely on the surface. After all, even seaplanes "land" on water, don't they?

[Arsonide]

Is it perhaps possible to clarify the "land on land" objective a bit more? The english language is a bit confusing to me (but apparently I'm not alone), I was pretty sure that "to land" meant just getting down safely on the surface. After all, even seaplanes "land" on water, don't they?

It no longer uses the word "land" at any point. It says to make ground contact with the planet, which is about as specific as it can get I'm afraid.

[Kobymaru]

It no longer uses the word "land" at any point. It says to make ground contact with the planet, which is about as specific as it can get I'm afraid.

Well that's perfect already!

[Finox]

Well that will work, thank you!