Killed Kerbal not respawning?

[BentRim]

Total newbie here.  I have logged about 20 hours and am having a blast learning this game.  

I've gone through the tutorials and started a career on normal.  In my attempts to launch into orbit I have killed all my pilots. I checked the settings and see that they are set to respawn in 1hr but that doesn't seem to happen.

Any suggestions on getting Jeb back?

[Mastikator]

I think you have to re-recruit revived crew.

[BentRim]

3 hours ago, Mastikator said:

I think you have to re-recruit revived crew.

That's part of my issue. They aren't there to re-recruit so I have no pilots. Only scientists and engineers.  

I'm sure it's something simple I am missing.  I can always start a new career.

[Spricigo]

Did you changed the settings after the accident(s).? AFAIK it's the settings at the time you lose a kerbal  that matters for if it will come back or no. 

Check the astronaut complex, Jeb and Val should be listed in the 'lost'  tab.  If they are Missing its supposed to come back eventually, if they are Killed you may edit to Available knowledge yoursavegame. 

Notice that you don't need to start over,  scientists/engineers can't use SAS but can pilot.  On the other hand you probably don't lose much progress that early in the game 

[bewing]

Actually, you should have 2 tabs, "Lost" and "Missing". Anyone "Lost" is gone. Anyone Missing will respawn.

I assume that you haven't changed the setting since the game started? It would be very strange for them to not respawn if the setting hasn't been changed. But even just clicking that button off and on again will permakill all the "missing" kerbals.

In any case, you can make yourself more pilots in the Debug menu. Click the Kerbals tab, name your new pilot, give him the right number of stars and veteran/BadS settings and click create. Suddenly you have a new pilot on your roster. It's basically like having one of the dead ones respawn.

 

Edited January 4, 2017 by bewing

[BentRim]

They are listed as killed. It is very likely that I did uncheck and recheck the re-spawn option at some point after checking the settings.  I did find that I was able to use the Tracking Station to recover one pilot,  but I'm not very good at this game and am certain I will kill her at some point soon....

Thanks for the help.  I will search on the debug menu and see what I can figure out.