Transfer Kerbals to new game?

[VoidSquid]

Probably of limited interest, but after finishing my career game I started with KSP 1.3.1 after 2 years 4 month, I started a new game with KSP 1.8.1.

Have put some hours already into it, and slowly I'm getting somewhere. But: the longer I play, the more I miss my old crew who went with me all those two years, through highs and lows.

Anyone knows if it is possible (how? Just editing the respective sfs file? Or is there a mod, maybe?) to transfer your Kerbals from one career to another?

I just miss my guys (weird personal relationship, I know, it's just me being me, and I miss them. Badly.)

Edited December 16, 2019 by VoidSquid

[Geonovast]

If you don't care about their personal mission history, you could use the F12 menu to recreate all of them.

If you do care, then it's going to take some precision safe file editing, I would think.  This sounds like something a mod could be written to do.

[VoidSquid]

19 minutes ago, Geonovast said:

If you do care

Thing is, I DO care (why else that silly question).

Always good to hear what another experienced player says, my take then: editing a sfs file, completely replacing the ROSTER section. That should do, I guess.

Ok then, I'll see where it leads to.

Thanks a lot, @Geonovast  

Edited December 16, 2019 by VoidSquid

[AHHans]

1 hour ago, VoidSquid said:

Always good to hear what another experienced player says, my take then: editing a sfs file, completely replacing the ROSTER section. That should do, I guess.

I'm not 100% sure that this will work for a jump from 1.3.1 to 1.8.1. E.g. I don't know if the game freaks out if a Kerbal has no lightR/lightG/lightB information. But it should be fairly straightforward to fill in the new fields with default values.

[VoidSquid]

6 minutes ago, AHHans said:

from 1.3.1 to 1.8.1.

Well, the jump would be from 1.7.3 to 1.8.1, my guys "survived" all the other transitions over the years pretty fine (had some minor issues, but everything worked out, every time)  

[AHHans]

1 hour ago, VoidSquid said:

Well, the jump would be from 1.7.3 to 1.8.1, my guys "survived" all the other transitions over the years pretty fine (had some minor issues, but everything worked out, every time)

Well, give it a try, my guess is that it will work. If it doesn't you could also do the transfer in 1.7.3, and then load that file in 1.8.1.

(The savefiles have the version with which it was written inside. So I could imagine that 1.8.1 has some code to fill in entries missing in a 1.7.3 file. Code which might not be called when opening a file that claims to be 1.8.1. But there is probably no significant difference between 1.7.3 and 1.8.1 savefiles.)

[Fierce Wolf]

Congrats on rescuing your guys!