Kerbal Eugenics Program

[Techavon]

So with the new astronaut management facility, I decided to undertake a eugenics program.

I go through the roster and any astronaut with low courage or anything more than 1/3 stupidity, I pack into a rocket and fly it into the ocean.

Then, I go to the training facility, recruit all the available kerbals, and rinse/repeat.

I'm starting to accumulate a pretty good population of brave, intelligent astronauts.

Soon, I'll implement more draconian requirements, with the goal of a roster full of astronauts with 100% bravery and 0% stupidity.

Let this be an urgent call to SQUAD to implement astronaut training ASAP, so that I can employ less brutal methods of recruitment.

[rryy]

I'm sorry to tell you that you have been fooled. You actually have courageous, stupid Kerbals, not smart like you thought. That's because the Stupidity stat is backwards. High "stupidity" means the Kerbal is smart, low "stupidity" means the Kerbal is stupid.

Of course, if you want to make it go by faster, you can go into the persistence file and edit the Courage and Stupidity stat to be 1.

[Techavon]

Really?

This changes everything, if it's true.

Time for a new purge.

[Richy teh space man]

lmfao that's one way of ensuring the most efficient recruits are available.

But fyi high stupidity stat Kerbals are actually intelligent Kerbals (yeah it's counter intuitive.. go figure..)

[regex]

INB4 Godw... Oh wait...

That's hilariously twisted OP.

[Levelord]

I don't know about you, but I pick the most stupid Kerbals, because I'm afraid of killing brave ones :I

[Richy teh space man]

Good job KSP doesn't have any moral accountability or trade unions..

Then again it is just a game..

[NovaSilisko]

I'm pretty sure, rryy, that Stupidity does what its name says. Internally it is referred to as "dumb", and I think the higher it is, the more a kerbal will be entertained by things like spinning and explosions. Courage means that these things don't worry him. the BadS tag which isn't shown in the roster means he will be psychotic like jeb.

[nimbim]

I present to you the Kerbotel. It can house up to 32 Kerbals at a time.

[HeadHunter67]

I'm assuming you mean "house" as in "beat unmerciful", not "accommodate"?

[CleverClothe]

I hope you are doing this for science.

P.S. You monster.

[Techavon]

Update: I designed a long bus with SRBs aimed at each crew tank. Much faster and more efficient than the rocket I was using.

Things are coming along nicely.

I feel that, once I've accumulated a satisfactory breed of Kerbals, I'll be much more attached to them, considering the work I did to acquire them.

No longer will I build insane death traps and carelessly throw away the lives of my astronauts.

No. This is a new breed of Kerbal. One whose lives the nation will cherish and protect.

There will be unmanned versions of every mission, to ensure safety and reliability as much as possible before we risk the lives of these brave, intelligent men.

Edit: Unfortunately, the original three were deemed unfit for duty. However, due to their contributions, it was decided that they would be exiled, rather than liquidated. They were smuggled off the planet on a craft disguised as a routine unmanned probe. A secret base and memorial of sorts was established on the far side of the Mun, and regular supply drops will be sent. An ignoble life, to be sure, but they will contribute to Munar research (albeit anonymously).

Edited July 30, 2013 by Techavon

[Brotoro]

So with the new astronaut management facility, I decided to undertake a eugenics program.

I go through the roster and any astronaut with low courage or anything more than 1/3 stupidity, I pack into a rocket and fly it into the ocean...

OK, I laughed out loud at that part. Have a kerbal snack.