What are, to this day, the BEST Contract Pack combinations?

[MARL_Mk1]

I'm on a constant conflict when it comes to the way I want to play KSP.

I love the idea of Career, yet the stock career contract system is a steaming hot pile of s#$*%, and I know there are a bunch of good Contrack Packs around, but many of them are outdated, or do not play well with eachother, or are unbalanced... you name it.

What is, in your opinion, the best and definitive Contract Pack combination for an definitive Career Mode?

[Rutabaga22]

I would recommend this set of mods used by @Caerfinon, it made career so much more fun. You do need to remove mechjeb from the .ckan because it isn't indexed on CKAN.
https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/27292-what-did-you-do-in-ksp-today/&do=findComment&comment=4198256

Edited November 28, 2022 by Rutabaga22

[Caerfinon]

12 minutes ago, Rutabaga22 said:

You do need to remove mechjeb from the .ckan because it isn't indexed on CKAN.

Ya... I use the dev instance of MechJeb.  You need to have https://ksp.sarbian.com/ckan/MechJeb2-ci.tar.gz added to CKAN settings as a Metadata Repository

[610yesnolovely]

14 hours ago, MARL_Mk1 said:

I'm on a constant conflict when it comes to the way I want to play KSP.

I love the idea of Career, yet the stock career contract system is a steaming hot pile of s#$*%, and I know there are a bunch of good Contrack Packs around, but many of them are outdated, or do not play well with eachother, or are unbalanced... you name it.

What is, in your opinion, the best and definitive Contract Pack combination for an definitive Career Mode?

I pretty much (in non-RO/RSS/RP-1) use these:

Must Have: Career Evolution, History of Spaceflight Pocket Edition (recommend with BDB), GAP (Stock/JSNQ), KerbsideRemasteredXXX (Stock/JNSQ).

Others I use and do work: Anomaly Surveyor (Stock only), Field Research, CommNetRelays, CleverSats, KerbinSpaceStation, Tourism Plus, InterplanetaryMountainer (Stock only), GrandTours (Stock only).

[Vl3d]

19 hours ago, MARL_Mk1 said:

love the idea of Career, yet the stock career contract system is a steaming hot pile of s#$*%

Try playing career without contracts (it's hard, but slow makes you think).

 

[MARL_Mk1]

8 hours ago, 610yesnolovely said:

I pretty much (in non-RO/RSS/RP-1) use these:

Must Have: Career Evolution, History of Spaceflight Pocket Edition (recommend with BDB), GAP (Stock/JSNQ), KerbsideRemasteredXXX (Stock/JNSQ).

Others I use and do work: Anomaly Surveyor (Stock only), Field Research, CommNetRelays, CleverSats, KerbinSpaceStation, Tourism Plus, InterplanetaryMountainer (Stock only), GrandTours (Stock only).

I didn't know about Anomaly Surveyor and Interplanetary Mountainer, thanks!

[DeadJohn]

Here are a few packs that I like:

1. Bases and Station Reborn: A better set of contracts for building/expanding orbital stations and surface bases.
2. Tourism Plus: A set of contracts that progresses as far as building a space casino to accommodate dozens of tourists. An excellent pack if you need repeatable contracts to farm funds if you play at hard difficulty.
3. Bluedog Design Bureau: If you use BDB parts, there's a good set of bundled contracts that are specifically tailored to build and fly missions inspired by historic missions. The satellite contract text recommends specific probe cores but you can improvise your own designs if you want. Some contracts are repeatable if you need to farm science or funds. This pack is a great excuse to use some of BDB's obscure parts and learn more about USA space history.
4. KSRSS Reborn: Progression contracts bundled with the beta KSRSS Reborn planet pack.
5. GAP for JNSQ: Only works with the JNSQ planet pack. Contracts encourages flying planes around Kerbin to discover and unlock many airfields. It's a great contract pack if you like planes and want to explore JNSQ's homeworld.

My current career playthrough is using the first 4 packs (plus another I can't immediately recall) with the Skyhawk Science System. Skyhawk is my favorite tech  tree in the game because it adds the flexibility of additional fuel types without excessive complexity, but it requires BDB.

[MARL_Mk1]

51 minutes ago, DeadJohn said:

Here are a few packs that I like:

1. Bases and Station Reborn: A better set of contracts for building/expanding orbital stations and surface bases.
2. Tourism Plus: A set of contracts that progresses as far as building a space casino to accommodate dozens of tourists. An excellent pack if you need repeatable contracts to farm funds if you play at hard difficulty.
3. Bluedog Design Bureau: If you use BDB parts, there's a good set of bundled contracts that are specifically tailored to build and fly missions inspired by historic missions. The satellite contract text recommends specific probe cores but you can improvise your own designs if you want. Some contracts are repeatable if you need to farm science or funds. This pack is a great excuse to use some of BDB's obscure parts and learn more about USA space history.
4. KSRSS Reborn: Progression contracts bundled with the beta KSRSS Reborn planet pack.
5. GAP for JNSQ: Only works with the JNSQ planet pack. Contracts encourages flying planes around Kerbin to discover and unlock many airfields. It's a great contract pack if you like planes and want to explore JNSQ's homeworld.

My current career playthrough is using the first 4 packs (plus another I can't immediately recall) with the Skyhawk Science System. Skyhawk is my favorite tech  tree in the game because it adds the flexibility of additional fuel types without excessive complexity, but it requires BDB.

I'm using Bases and Stations, Tourism Plus and stock GAP already. Wish they were stock.

That said, I'd love to play with BDB, but I personally only see it as a part pack to be played exclusively on RSS/RO for best results, but that's just me  

 

Edited November 29, 2022 by MARL_Mk1