NEED HELP!!! Kerbals duplicated and bugged out my game!

[LuckyGentleman]

Hello Guys, I have a Problem and need your advice/ help!

I played the Career Mode for the second time and as I knew how to build efficient rockets and how to play the missions fast, I wanted to take as many tourists on the same Mission as possible. So I took off with around 15 Kerbal Tourists (and a pilot) on a relative small spacecraft with external commmdoseats. I took them to Mun, orbited and then went on to Minimus, landed and headed back to Kerbin.
Meanwhile I started another small mission to rescue a kerbal from low kerbin orbit... but then i realised that the tourists where back in the space center... I could choose them again and take them on other missions!?! 

I didnt think much about it and told myself thats surels just a display bug and continued the mission to take the tourists home.
after a difficult and slow reentry (I had to refuel the spacecraft tho, otherwise they would have burned in the atmosphere :P) I landed safely and ended the mission.

The normal After-Mission screen appeared with the 3 info tabs (600 Science in a single Mission, I was really proud!) but then the game bugged. I couldnt enter the assembly hall anymore and most other buildings too. I also couldn't save the game at this point, the screen just froze and I couldn't even close it other than Alt + F4...
I restarted the game and the autosave took me to the landing on kerbin, so i told myself if I just start another rocket and take all the duplicated kerbals on that rocket there must be space for the originals then... but the same bug came up... Now I have no Idea how to continue and what to do...
I dont want to kill the Kerbals as the mission is worth at least 1.7 mio. and as said, 600 Science Points.

Any Idea how to solve that? Did someone had similar issues? Does it have to do with my PC maybe..?

Thanks a lot for any help!

[AHHans]

Hi @LuckyGentleman, welcome to the Forums.

It seems that your space program was closed down by the Kerbin Space Tourism Agency after complaints that you gave paying tourists that booked a pressurized business class cabin only a lawn chair to hold onto during their trip to the Mun.

O.K. I think it is essentially a bug that allows you to place tourists in the external command seats during launch. Tourists are not supposed to be able to do EVA and sitting in that seat is technically an EVA. On the other hand, I did try to reproduce that bug and I also got the duplicated tourists (in the chairs and in the astronaut complex) but my game didn't bug out when I recovered the tourists, but instead completed the contract and removed the duplicates from the astronaut complex.

Do you use any mods? If so, then you could try removing them.

Or you could ask in the technical support sub-forums: for unmodded installs, for modded installs. (Please check their pinned posts about which log-files to provide.)

Or you could try the cheat menu and remove the tourists / remove the contract(s) / both.

[LuckyGentleman]

Hello @AHHans  thanks a lot for the quick answer!

Why are they complaining, they have a much better view in the external commando seat

Ok so basically I am cheating..?
Strange that it doesn't bug out in your game, maybe it is the fact that i took tourist from 3-4 different missions and the game couldn't handle that anymore..?

I am using the vanilla game, no mods or anything at all...
I will definetely ask the question in the other forum, thank you for the link.

(I really hope KSP 2 is a bit more Bug free, sometimes when I harvest a planet or so and fast forward then stop.. the spaceship explodes.... that's a bit annoying when it auto saves right after that and you didn't save for the last few hours... :X)

Thanks again, and cheers!

[Spricigo]

10 hours ago, LuckyGentleman said:

Ok so basically I am cheating..?

I'd call it "finding a lower difficult beyond game designed constraints".  It's not cheating since you are competing with no one but yes, the game don't expect tourists in command chairs.

In any case the general  consensus is that if you did everything the contract requested but some bug happened you can just open the debug menu and set the thing you need to get the rewards you are supposed to get and clean any mess the bug let behind. 

 

14 hours ago, LuckyGentleman said:

... fast forward then stop.. the spaceship explodes....

it seems that a combination of rigid attachment, struts and part clipping is often the cause of such incidents. YOu may look at that if is a regular occurrence for you.