What do you do to get rid of kerbals?

[Findthepin1]

When I want to retire kerbals I send them to the bottom of the ocean or occasionally to the North Pole. Or they die in an explos- an experiment. What do you do?

Edited February 4, 2016 by Findthepin1

[Kobymaru]

Why would anyone get rid of kerbals? They're super expensive, and if you play with mods (like MKS) you need a lot of them to keep your bases running.

[tutike2000]

7 minutes ago, Kobymaru said:

They're super expensive

Set your Financial Loss to 10% and they'll be cheap. Building upgrades too.
Kerbals ought to be free, the way Kod indended.

[MaxwellsDemon]

In a former campaign game, I used them to staff the space stations or other places out of the way.  Gave 'em something to do and I could forget about them.   They never complained.

[Tex_NL]

Nearly all the rescued pilots get discharged as soon as they return to KSC. I already have plenty 3 star pilots.
Rescued engineers get discharged or trained based on my current needs. All bases or stations house at least one or more engineers.
Scientists all get trained to a minimum of level 3. I need them all to research the crap out of all the data coming in for off world missions. And more science means more funds and more reputation.

[Evanitis]

Interplanetary duty on various surfaces. In case... you know.. someone wants a new flag planted. We keep relaying them crossword puzzles and sudokus it they have electricity.

[regex]

I click the "X" next to their names in the ~Lounge~.

[Mitchz95]

I just retire them from the Astronaut Complex. My space program places quality over quantity; if I don't need a certain Kerbal I lay them off and bring in new blood.

[LordKael]

I had an Asteroid Prison Complex in my 1.0.4 save. Housed about 35 Kerbals that I had retired, or had been responsible for crimes against Kerbal-kind

[AbacusWizard]

The one and only time I had any need to "get rid of kerbals" was when 1.0 first came out and, to celebrate (finally!) the introduction of female kerbals, I decided to launch an all-female space program in a new career game. Of course this meant Jeb, Bill, and Bob were just hanging around with nothing to do, so when I had the tech to do so, I gave them all a promotion and both literally and metaphorically "kicked them upstairs" to a nice cushy desk job on board Starbase Alpha in low orbit.

[Francois424]

I had this Eeloo station back in 0.90 where I would send Kerbals I did not need anymore.

Sometimes they wanted to stretch their legs so head down to the planet to drive a few KMs into a not-so-balanced rover.
When they had enough they could come back to the retirement home station.

Since this was before ISRU and I had not installed Kethane or anything else, I had made a part called the KRAKEN DRIVE (based on ppl's stories on the forum) that would had infinite fuel @ 100 thrust.  
It was only used by the shuttle on that station so there was no abuse in game

Edited February 4, 2016 by Francois424

[Zoidos]

I don't. When they look at me with those big, stupid eyes, I just can't bring myself to tell them they have outlived their usefulness.

 

JK, in fact I don't see any reason to get rid of Kerbals. On the contrary, I sometimes grudgingly accept grindy rescue contracts for the 20th time just to get more Kerbals because hiring them would just cost too much and I need them for my bases, stations, interplanetary ships . And I don't mind having them idling around in the astronaut complex, since their corrupt, incompetent union let them sign away their rights and they have to work for me for free, forever (muhahhahahaaa *rubbing hands*).

[JoeNapalm]

4 hours ago, Findthepin1 said:

When I want to retire kerbals I send them to the bottom of the ocean or occasionally to the North Pole. Or they die in an explos- an experiment. What do you do?

[Skorpychan]

Assign them to storage just off the koast, in a ship. Or rotate them up to auxiliary crew duties on a space station.

[BananaTime101]

If I'm retiring them then I send them to a orbiting station I have around the Mun, but if they die then I plant a flag on top of the helipad on the VAB. There are at least 9000 of them up there.

[TimePeriod]

I just dump them in a big pod and let them burn up in the atmosphere. If that fails, its a 1 way trip out of the solar system ontop of Mt.SRB.

I have no qualms about letting them die.

They are a resource.

[FlyingPete]

Scientists can be (possibly temporarily) exiled to the Mun, grinding through all that data. They're out of the way and doing something useful

[Crispik]

Escape velocity... Out of the solar system

[Brainlord Mesomorph]

I had an engineer who kept sneaking on to flights instead of a pilot. 

So I made him go stand outside next to the runway. He still there.

[worir4]

Non of my kerbals get retired. They are just lost in 'accidental explosions'. 

[boxman]

Been taking a long break from KSP while waiting for unity 5 port, but this is how I used to get rid of them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvDL4qoZ8Ts

[AbacusWizard]

10 hours ago, Brainlord Mesomorph said:

I had an engineer who kept sneaking on to flights instead of a pilot. 

So I made him go stand outside next to the runway. He still there.

<sings>

Standin' by the spaceplane runway,

Watchin' the spaceships fly away, yeah;

I'm just standin' by the spaceplane runway,

Wastin' time.

</sings>

[federicoaa]

See my signature

[panzer1b]

1) Place kerbal in front of capital ship.

2) Fire the SRM-6.

3) Poof.

4) No more kerbal...

Guaranteed to remove unwanted kerbals (provided you can actually hit the broadside of a barn).

Edited February 6, 2016 by panzer1b

[Mikki]

I keep most of my kerbs and the rescued, they are in preparation for some lung duration OPM missions, i got about 40 Kerbs in my careersave, some 4-5 have been fired due to boring name or lack of stupidity, or courage, or beeing male, since i started the save in 0.9, whitout female Kerbs...