Do you have to start a new career when going from 1.71 to future 1.73?

[jpinard]

I am trying out some planetary mods and am wondering if when going from 1.71 to the upcoming 1.73 release, if I will need to start a new career due to the changes, or if my career will work OK?

[Geonovast]

I don't know of any planned changes that should affect it.

A new career was "needed" from 1.7.0 to 1.7.1 only if you bought the Breaking Ground DLC, to enable the new surface feature stuff.

1.7.2 changed the spawn rates of those features, but you didn't need a new game for that.

Needing a new save during a version upgrade is the rare exception, not the rule. 

 

There's always the "just try it" method.  Make a backup of your save file, and save it to a non-KSP directory.  Update the game, try your save.  If it goes all wonky, go back to 1.7.1 and move your save back over, and load.

[Daniel Prates]

Wait. A 1.7.3 is nearing release? Or the question was just speculative?

[Geonovast]

Just now, Daniel Prates said:

Wait. A 1.7.3 is nearing release? Or the question was just speculative?

 

[Daniel Prates]

Indeed the changes on the horizon do not seem to be savagame-breaking.

[The Aziz]

People are seriously overreacting. I kept my old save from 1.0 to 1.2.2 and everything was just fine (read as: it survived two major updates without a scratch, I was only making sure that all mods are compatible)

Nowadays people are petrified when they see small bugfixing patch... ("SQUAD ruined my mods!" *by providing constant support for their game*)

Now read my words carefully: Yes. You. Will. Be. Fine.

sorry for the short rant but this is ridiculous :l

Edited June 24, 2019 by The Aziz

[RealKerbal3x]

What @The Aziz said. 99% of the time, a small bugfixing patch will not harm your save in the slightest. I have a save that I created in version 1.3.1 and brought all the way up to version 1.7.2 (so, 5 major version updates) and it isn’t broken at all.