[Answered] AverageAvailableContracts change not working

[AlanP]

I changed the AverageAvailableContracts in the contract.cfg file from 10 to 30, nothing seems to change in the game. the file edited was in gamedata\squad. Did I do something wrong? My objective is to increase the number of available contracts. I used wordpad to edit and saved as a text only file. Thanks

Edited May 17, 2016 by AlanP

[bewing]

Well, I have left it unchanged at 10, and the game has kept me at a constant 14 or 15 contracts from the beginning. So my guess is that it's a feature that hasn't actually been implemented yet. You don't need to edit the gamefile, though -- there is a slider in the menu when you set the difficulty level of the game.

[FancyMouse]

Make sure two things:

1. Game is restarted so that the .cfg is reloaded

2. You don't have the 2 or 7 max contract restriction from not upgrading Mission Control to max.

[FullMetalMachinist]

8 hours ago, AlanP said:

I used wordpad to edit and saved as a text only file.

I think this might be your problem. Any game file that ends in ".cfg" needs to stay that way. If you saved the edited file as ".txt" then it won't work. 

[AlanP]

Bewing could be right about it not being implemented. I could not find any slider concerning contracts(other that penalty), so if you could be more specific I would appreciate it.

Fancy mouse I did restart the game. Mission Control is fully upgraded.

FullMetalMachinist I check it is still the the same file name exactly. I simply selected the file when I saved it so it would have the same name.

Thank you all for your suggestions. Hopeful there will be more suggestion or at least someone to confirm that it works or doesn't.

[AlanP]

Here is the solution I got to work. https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/2z5azg/is_there_any_mod_that_increases_the_number_of/

Here is a copy of the relevant info from the link from mwerle on reddit.

The only thing I don't understand is why this worked and just editing the origin contracts.cfg did not work.

 

I just traced into this because I've been meaning to do this myself, and it's pretty easy:

You can increase the number of contracts by increasing the AverageAvailableContracts parameter in Contracts.cfg in GameData/Squad/Contracts.

I haven't looked to see if it's possible to do it at runtime yet.

Here's a Module Manager patch (you must have Module Manager installed; save these lines in a file ending with .cfg and place it anywhere in your GameData):

# Copyright 2015 Michael "Micha" WERLE <micha@*obfuscated*.com>
#
# This Module Manager config file modifies the number of contracts
# offered by Mission Control.
#
# LICENSE
# Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
# http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
#
# This patch increases the number of contracts
@Contracts:Final
{
    # Default: 10
    @AverageAvailableContracts = 20
}

Edited May 17, 2016 by AlanP

[Streetwind]

1 hour ago, AlanP said:

The only thing I don't understand is why this worked and just editing the origin contracts.cfg did not work.

I'm with @FullMetalMachinist on this one, WordPad must have screwed something up. But hey, it's better practice to leave source files alone and use MM patches anyway

[AlanP]

7 hours ago, Streetwind said:

I'm with @FullMetalMachinist on this one, WordPad must have screwed something up. But hey, it's better practice to leave source files alone and use MM patches anyway

I would agree with you, except for the fact that it is easier to edit a file and change a number than to write a script. Obviously the fact that the script worked and the edit didn't is a deciding factor in which to use. Thanks for the the comment.