Can save games be modified to make an orange suit permanently dead?

[Dave Kerbin]

I'm starting a career game and I'm playing self imposed 'no revert, all death permanent'. I lost Jeb to a parachute malfunction during the second mission, but now for the 6th (just 14 in game hours later) he has already come back to life. I know it may be against all that is Kerbal but I'd like to make deaths, including orange suits, permanent for this save. It just makes their lifes and achievements all the more special.

I know I can't change the game rules entirely but is there a line in the save file that indicates when an orange suit will return, so I could edit it to 9999 or something when they die so they won't come back for a few million years.

Edited October 17, 2013 by Dave Kerbin

[Dave Kerbin]

From another thread

go to your persistance file and set MissingCrewsRespawn to False