Rescue mission: orbit of vessel not showing

[Konseq]

Hello everyone, 

 

I already posted about this on reddit, but no-one was able to help, so I hope you are able to. https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/5aepbl/rescue_mission_orbit_of_vessel_not_showing/?st=iv12tvg2&sh=dbb5a093

 

In career mode I accepted the rescue mission so save Nelner Kerman. Unfortunately the vessel isn't visible in the tracking station or map. (That visible vessel is Kimny's vessel who I already rescued and didn't terminate.)

Also Nelner is not showing in the Astronaut Complex as other Kerbals do, who you have to rescue.

I found old threads of other people with the same problem, but no solution for the problem. See here: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/106870-cant-find-the-kerbals-in-orbit-i-need-to-rescue/

Is there any solution to make Nelner's vessel visible? I don't want to cancel the mission or cheat via editing the save files.

Currently I only use MechJeb. I used to use HyperEdit, but I dont have the current version for KSP1.2 so that's inactive. HyperEdit files are still in the GameData folder tho.

Here is a screenshot:

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Those are the data from the persistent save file, if that helps:

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            CONTRACT
            {
                guid = c0df2804-9fd2-4c7f-abcc-c2b7f15cc466
                type = RecoverAsset
                prestige = 0
                seed = 1726147657
                state = Active
                viewed = Read
                agent = Rockomax Conglomerate
                deadlineType = Floating
                expiryType = Floating
                values = 57947.6882236103,41142858.6387633,24333.7490312397,58372.9176213539,25307.0981477738,0,9.217199,9,173573.671728154,115654.423504549,41258513.0622679,0
                targetBody = 1
                kerbalName = Nelner Kerman
                partName = MK1CrewCabin
                partID = 0
                recoveryLocation = 1
                recoveryType = 1
                gender = 1
                PARAM
                {
                    name = AcquireCrew
                    state = Incomplete
                    values = 5940,0,0,4,0
                    title = Save Nelner Kerman
                    winOn = 0
                    kerbal = Nelner Kerman
                }
                PARAM
                {
                    name = RecoverKerbal
                    state = Incomplete
                    values = 0,0,0,0,0
                    title = Recover Nelner Kerman on Kerbin
                    failOn = All
                    winOn = All
                    kerbal = Nelner Kerman
                }
            }

 

Edited November 2, 2016 by Konseq

[Konseq]

I might have figured out why the contract was not working. I checked my save file further and found a finished tourist mission with another Kerbal named Nelner: 

 

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            CONTRACT_FINISHED
            {
                guid = 5f42a5cd-5594-462c-aa58-693e95cad28e
                type = TourismContract
                prestige = 0
                seed = 1678819298
                state = Completed
                viewed = Read
                agent = Research & Development Department
                deadlineType = Floating
                expiryType = Floating
                values = 64800,46008000,0,0,0,0,20,10,171672.01934883,113493.621194547,46121493.6211945,0
                gender = 0
                preposition = right here on Kerbin
                homeDestinations = True
                tourists = Nelner Kerman|Sanrys Kerman
                PARAM
                {
                    name = KerbalTourParameter
                    state = Complete
                    disableOnStateChange = False
                    allowPartialFailure = True
                    values = 0,0,0,0,0
                    kerbalName = Nelner Kerman
                    PARAM
                    {
                        name = KerbalDestinationParameter
                        enabled = False
                        state = Complete
                        values = 0,0,0,0,0
                        targetBody = 1
                        targetType = Suborbit
                        kerbalName = Nelner Kerman
                    }
                }
                PARAM
                {
                    name = KerbalTourParameter
                    state = Complete
                    disableOnStateChange = False
                    allowPartialFailure = True
                    values = 0,0,0,0,0
                    kerbalName = Sanrys Kerman
                    PARAM
                    {
                        name = KerbalDestinationParameter
                        enabled = False
                        state = Complete
                        values = 0,0,0,0,0
                        targetBody = 1
                        targetType = Suborbit
                        kerbalName = Sanrys Kerman
                    }
                }
            }

The following happened: I did the tourist mission for Nelner and while doing the tourist mission, I also rescued the Kerbonaut named Nelner from his vessel, and terminated the vessel. So I had a vessel with two Nelners, one tourist, one Kerbonaut. Finally after landing back on Kerbin and recovering the vessel the mission system registered that Nelner had returned, but it only finished the tourist mission, not the rescue mission. Now Kerbonaut Nelner was not anymore in orbit, was not in the astronaut complex, but his rescue contract still existed. I didn't notice at the moment when it happened and kept doing other missions. Until I wanted to finish that mission days later and was stuck with the problem...

 

Since I finally today realized what happened, I tried fixing it by editing Nelner's name in the save files, but that didn't help (maybe I did it wrong?). Anyhow, I deleted Nelner's rescue contract and now my problem is "solved". But this bug can happen again if two Kerbals have the same name, so my wish is to turn this thread into a bug report, so it will get fixed. I really hope it will get fixed because I got really annoyed, even stopped playing for a few days, and I spent several hours trying to fix it.

Edited November 3, 2016 by Konseq

[sal_vager]

Hi @Konseq, do you have the saves from before and after? They might be useful in solving this.

[Konseq]

Hi @sal_vager,

I do. How do you want me to post them?

 

EDIT:
I worked my way through my saves. Turns out I didn't do both missions at the same time. In quicksave #7 I have not accepted the tourist mission yet. In quicksave #8 I already completed the Nelner tourist mission and already accepted the Nelner rescue mission. So the error occured in between quicksave #7 and quicksave #8.

I created this dropbox folder with quicksave #1 to #10, all ships and backup folder. I didn't include all quicksaves tho (currently I am at quicksave #81) to keep the folder size low.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/g9pfn0rg782t32t/AAAhtCwudEKBW2YRsCzMRkSba?dl=0

Edited November 4, 2016 by Konseq
Additional info

[sal_vager]

54 minutes ago, Konseq said:

Hi @sal_vager,

I do. How do you want me to post them?

 

EDIT:
I worked my way through my saves. Turns out I didn't do both missions at the same time. In quicksave #7 I have not accepted the tourist mission yet. In quicksave #8 I already completed the Nelner tourist mission and already accepted the Nelner rescue mission. So the error occured in between quicksave #7 and quicksave #8.

I created this dropbox folder with quicksave #1 to #10, all ships and backup folder. I didn't include all quicksaves tho (currently I am at quicksave #81) to keep the folder size low.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/g9pfn0rg782t32t/AAAhtCwudEKBW2YRsCzMRkSba?dl=0

Thank you Konseq.

[Konseq]

I really hope it helps figuring out what happend and possibly even fixing a bug.

FYI:
This is the not-edited persistent file. In a previous post I mentioned I changed the persistent file (deleting Nelners rescue contract), but before that I did a backup of the whole save folder and this is where those files in the dropbox came from,

[sal_vager]

It'll help, thank you for posting this.

[Gordon Fecyk]

I've had the same named kerbal show up in two contracts as well, in 1.2.0. In my case this was two tourist contracts, where finishing one contract deleted the kerbal from the save file, making the other contract unfinishable. I provided the save file in this bug tracker entry:

http://bugs.kerbalspaceprogram.com/issues/13052

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[Konseq]

24 minutes ago, Gordon Fecyk said:

I've had the same named kerbal show up in two contracts as well, in 1.2.0. In my case this was two tourist contracts, where finishing one contract deleted the kerbal from the save file, making the other contract unfinishable. I provided the save file in this bug tracker entry:

http://bugs.kerbalspaceprogram.com/issues/13052

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Thank god, I am not the only one. This bug drove me nuts because I wasn't able to figure out what is going on and thought I made a mistake.

[JPLRepo]

Thanks @Konseq & @Gordon Fecyk - Being investigated and will be tracked via this bug report:
http://bugs.kerbalspaceprogram.com/issues/13052