Tourist Mission goals no longer showing as completed

[DizzyBHigh]

Hi there

Ive just come across a weird issue.

I have 2 tourist missions a total of 6 Kerbals 4 of which want to land on the Mun, theres various other objectives split between the 6 Kerbals as well.

Kerbin Sub-Orbital trajectory,
Kerbin Orbit,
Fly by Mun,
Orbit Mun etc.

I was on the mun with all the objectives complete, except returning back to kerbin. 

Since then i have loaded in my save (both quick and named) and i don''t have any Kerbals on board anymore!

Now it shows all the objectives as not completed.

I'm on the mun and the 4 kerbals are gone not in the Hitchhicker Container anymore! the mission says they haven't landed on the mun. or completed any of the objecives.

Does anyone know how this happened, how to prevent it from happening, I have a mod Capcom - Mission Control on the GO

Does anyone know if that mod causes conflicts?

Do i have to do the whole mission in one go without saving?
 

Edited February 12, 2018 by DizzyBHigh

[Snark]

Hello, and welcome to the forum! 

1 hour ago, DizzyBHigh said:

Does anyone know if that mod causes conflicts?

I have no idea-- have never used that mod myself.

1 hour ago, DizzyBHigh said:

Do i have to do the whole mission in one go without saving?

Normally, no, you're not supposed to have to do this.  It's supposed to just work.  If you've got a tourist contract, and you've got tourists on the ship, and you save the game, and later load the game, the tourists are supposed to still be there.  So:  either there's some problem with a mod, or else you've run into a bug in the game.

1 hour ago, DizzyBHigh said:

Does anyone know how this happened

No idea-- basically, either "mod bug" or "stock game bug".  Might be interesting to take a look at the crew roster in the Astronaut Complex in KSC, and look at how those tourists are listed-- e.g. do they show up as "Killed", or "Lost", or what?  (Not that that will really answer all the questions, but it would be an interesting data point.)

In any case... if those tourists have just been suddenly and mysteriously devoured by the space kraken, that's certainly not your fault in any way, and you shouldn't be dinged for that.  If you still have the contract in your list-- i.e. if it's still waiting for completion and not showing up as "failed"-- then my suggestion would be this:  just pretend that the kerbals are still on board, complete the mission normally (so you have the satisfaction of knowing that you successfully did your part) ... and then, with a clear conscience, use the Alt+F12 cheat menu to force completion of the contract.

[DizzyBHigh]

Thanks for taking the time to Reply Snark.
I have restarted from a base save just before the mission launch, and restarted the mission. all seems to be ok up till now, have 2 saves one for the LKO and another for the LMO.  The crew are still there when I load those saves.

I've had multiple attempts at the mission, and many reverts back to VBA to add various bits and pieces, Reaction Wheels, extra Monopropellant and other stuff.

To be honest it's probably not a bug and me just being too quick to relaunch, without checking if the crew was on board before launching.

I've added it to my "don't be stupid" prelaunch checklist.

[Snark]

1 hour ago, DizzyBHigh said:

I've added it to my "don't be stupid" prelaunch checklist.

I wish you luck with that.    My own attempts along those lines typically look something like,

1. Do stupid things all the time.
2. Add "don't be stupid" to my pre-launch checklist.
3. Add "remember to check the checklist" to the checklist.
4. Wait, that doesn't work if I've already forgotten to check the checklist.
5. Repeat steps 1-4 until eventually I get sufficiently annoyed to write a mod to solve the problem for me, since I appear to be genetically incapable of remembering to do certain things. 

Anyway, best of luck!