[1.11.x] KIA - Kerbal Information Agency Contract Pack Alpha 0.1.1

[hermano]

KIA Kerbal Information Agency Contract Pack

The KIA is a very secretive secret service. Who are they working for? What do they do? Don't ask, you already know too much!
They do need your services, though. Agents need to go to places, weather photographs need to be taken. You will be paid well, if you can be quiet about it.

Description:
This is a set of survey missions. I don't want to play without Kerbalism anymore, but the removal of surveys and incompatibility with Field Research Contracts left me few purposes for planes and rovers. I decided to create a replacement, so the KIA was born.

Current missions:

• Drive an agent in a motorized vehicle to sites near KSC and recover them.
• Fly an agent in a plane to sites near KSC and recover them.
• Fly an agent in a plane to a place far from KSC and return.
• Fly a camera in a plane to a high recon mission far from KSC and return.
• Place a satellite with a camera in a polar orbit.
• Find the Jeeb with the McGuffin and deliver it to KSC.
• Leave a KIA applicant stranded in Orbit of Kerbin.
• Send a rover with a camera to sites on Mun.

Current state of the contract pack:

• All existing missions should work fine with Contract Configurator 1.30.5 and KSP 1.11. I'm sure all of them can be improved, I just started learning to write contracts.
• The rewards might be too high or low. I selected what I thought was fair for the real life time spent on the missions. 
• Only works with stock Kerbin.
• Only english texts (kind of).

 

Latest changes:

Spoiler

0.1.1 Alpha

Improved the jeeb wheel settings for mountain driving.
Resolved conflicts with restock for WeatherKam and McGuffin.

 

Download:
Alpha pre-release: Github

 

Dependencies:
Contract Configurator
Module Manager

Optional:
Waypoint manager
Unkerballed Start
Grounded
Firespitter

Thanks to:
@nightingale for Contract Configurator.
@inigma for GAP, @nightingale for Field Research and @pap1723 for Career Evolution where I found great resources to understand how Contract Configurator contracts work.
 

License:
CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
 

Edited January 23, 2021 by hermano

[Caerfinon]

Kismet.

I was working on something similar for Kerbin Side Remastered  

My KIA was "The Knational Intelligence Agency". I find occurrences of synchronicity in development fascinating.   

Congratulations on the launch, it looks good. 

[hermano]

4 hours ago, Caerfinon said:

Kismet.

I was working on something similar for Kerbin Side Remastered  

My KIA was "The Knational Intelligence Agency". I find occurrences of synchronicity in development fascinating.   

Congratulations on the launch, it looks good. 

Wow, I knew your missions existed, but since I don't use Kerbinside I had not looked at them. The idea of the KIA is probably obvious enough, but the timing here is really interesting.

 

I think both mission packs could coexist without problems, as I would expect users of your pack will find this one underwhelming.

It's still early enough to rename this one, though. Mk5, NSK or KGP could work just as well or something along those lines.

If you would release your KIA missions independent of Kerbinside I would also be happy if these were just integrated in some form.

Thanks, for the congrats.

 

[Caerfinon]

1 minute ago, hermano said:

I think both mission packs could coexist without problems

I think they can too. My "KIA" missions are still in the early concept phase so If there is to be a name change then I think that it will need to be on my side. This would have no impact to the rest of my Kerbin Side  Remastered contracts and would let people use both without any confusion. I'm looking forward to trying yours out in my career game.    

[hermano]

Currently I just use these missions in a playthrough to find bugs. Seems mostly fine so far. I had to resolve conflicts with restock, so there is a small update.

I plan to add a few more missions in the near future:

• Build a WeatherKam satellite network
• Deliver the McGuffin to the bottom of the ocean
• Deliver the McGuffin to the Mun northpole
• Hurl the evil mastermind into the Sun
• Hurl the real evil mastermind into the sun

I'm open to suggestions, though.

[theonegalen]

On 1/22/2021 at 5:51 PM, hermano said:

• Hurl the evil mastermind into the Sun
• Hurl the real evil mastermind into the sun

I really and actually laughed out loud.