15 Contract Maximum?

[Clipperride]

Good Day Forumiers,

I noticed yesterday that once I have 15 current contracts, no more seem to appear at Mission Control.  As soon as I completed a couple of contracts, two new ones appeared.  Is there any way to increase the total number of contracts you can have?

Not being aware of this limit, I've accepted quite a few long term contracts in Dunas SOI and have another year to wait before the next transfer window opens.

[How to: KSP]

5 minutes ago, Clipperride said:

Good Day Forumiers,

I noticed yesterday that once I have 15 current contracts, no more seem to appear at Mission Control.  As soon as I completed a couple of contracts, two new ones appeared.  Is there any way to increase the total number of contracts you can have?

Not being aware of this limit, I've accepted quite a few long term contracts in Dunas SOI and have another year to wait before the next transfer window opens.

So mission control doesn't give you any contracts now! Maybe you Finished the game, that is it you have ended it (or at least thats what I hope)

If you really don't get anymore contracts then download some mods that give you contracts (yes they exist)

Sincerely, HowToKSP

[Tex_NL]

15 minutes ago, How to: KSP said:

So mission control doesn't give you any contracts now! Maybe you Finished the game, that is it you have ended it (or at least thats what I hope)

If you really don't get anymore contracts then download some mods that give you contracts (yes they exist)

Sincerely, HowToKSP

You can barely be more wrong. The number of contracts has NOTHING to do with mods.

Go to ../GameData/Squad/Contracts/.
Back-up and then open the file Contracts.cfg.
Look for the line that says AverageAvailableContracts and increase the value.

Edited December 13, 2016 by Tex_NL

[Gordon Fecyk]

I noticed this on 1.1.3 but the 'soft limit' was closer to thirteen contracts for me. This might be a way to prevent getting infinite funds.

Sure you could take all of those Duna and Eve contracts that have a twenty-five year time limit and finish them at your relative leisure, but you better actually finish them. Fortunately our agencies are a patient bunch, relatively speaking, and give decent leeway for transfer windows even with a 'hasty' mindset.

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[FancyMouse]

8 hours ago, Tex_NL said:

You can barely be more wrong. The number of contracts has NOTHING to do with mods.

Oh it certainly does. The AverageAvailableContracts field can be modified by MM, and supposedly it's the preferred way to do (what MM is designed for). There are certainly mod that is just a few lines MM .cfg changing this. That's what the "mods" in that sentence really refer to.

[Clipperride]

Thanks for the answers.  Although it's strange to hear it's a soft limit as, the number of contracts I have + the number of available contracts seems to remain at 15 (for me at least)

Looks like I'll be a busy boy on Duna and Ike as soon as the next transfer window opens up!

One other (sort of) related question; Does the amount of Rep lost for cancelling a contract that has been accepted go down over time?  I ask as I decided I couldn't be bothered hauling a class E astroid about the place, so I cancelled it.  I only lost 2 rep points and wondered if that was because it had been over a year since I originally accepted it?