OOPS: Kerbal Alarm Clock lets you cheat on Rescue Contracts

[Brainlord Mesomorph]

I just accidentally did this:

1.       Have a rescue contact (a Kerbal in a ship you don’t own yet)

2.       View the ship in Tracking Station

3.       Set an alarm for that ship (at any time)

4.       Click on the alarm in KAC

5.       Click “jump to ship”

6.       Suddenly your Rescue Contract is completed. (He’s not home yet, but you do have command of the Kerbal)

I had a rescue contract and the guy flung past the Moon out into interplanetary space.  I was trying to set an alarm for when he’d swing past Kerbin again, and I accidentally completed the contract.

 

Thought you guys should know.

(KAC should fix this bug)

Roger and Out,
Brainlord Mesomorph

[Deutherius]

This also works for asteroids. I have accidentally switched to a few while marking their intercept dates with Kerbin. Admittedly not as useful as the rescue bug, but it does give you an early look at the rocks.

[suicidejunkie]

Completed?  You mean just the first step, not the whole thing right?

If you have a lifesupport mod, that kind of bug would just kill the victim.

[Brainlord Mesomorph]

1 hour ago, suicidejunkie said:

Completed?  You mean just the first step, not the whole thing right?

 

yes

[Alshain]

It would be more effective if you had posted this in the KAC thread.

[charfa]

@TriggerAu shold be interested.

[Brainlord Mesomorph]

24 minutes ago, Alshain said:

It would be more effective if you had posted this in the KAC thread.

is there one?

Attn Mod: pls move this thread. TY

[Superfluous J]

This is not a bug. In the KAC thread (Yes there is one) there was discussion of this when it was implemented. There were warnings about it (I think with Asteroids only as perhaps Rescue Contracts were not a thing at the time but I may be misremembering) and there is a setting somewhere in the options that will turn it off if you prefer. I actually thought it was off by default. I would also not be surprised if it was mentioned in the first post of that thread, the readme, or both.