Remove pod auto-fill / remember crew assignments

[CaptainKipard]

I don't always want all my seats filled, in fact I rarely do. I would prefer it if the game didn't auto-fill those seats, and only made you choose your crew once you press "launch".

Also I sometime choose my crew while still building, thinking that I'll launch soon. Then I realise I have to keep building but somewhere down the line the game forgets who I chose to crew the ship. I'd be nice if the game remembered who I chose, and keep those in that ship, and unavailable for other ships.

[S4qFBxkFFg]

Not 100% sure, but I think this is coming with the Mission Control building (and the VAB/SPH would be purely for design/build, playing no part in crew selection).

[helaeon]

I think your crew selection should occur when you hit the launch button just like if you launch from the space center screen.

There should also be a button there to randomly select crew.

Maybe someday have a way to select crews that stick together like Jeb, Bob, and Bill. So you'd be able to select crew A, B, C, D, etc. Even more important if Kerbals ever get abilities of some kind where you may want to balance or make a specialty crew.

[Kasuha]

Command pods (and the hub part) should be tweakable for number of posts that will be occupied on launch and that setting should be saved with the ship.

For selecting particular Kerbals to occupy these places when you want to, I believe this change would suffice.

[CaptainKipard]

Command pods (and the hub part) should be tweakable for number of posts that will be occupied on launch and that setting should be saved with the ship.

For selecting particular Kerbals to occupy these places when you want to, I believe this change would suffice.

I like those ideas too. Anything that helps me choose my crew at the right time is ok really.

[Xaelath]

I don't always want all my seats filled, in fact I rarely do. I would prefer it if the game didn't auto-fill those seats, and only made you choose your crew once you press "launch".

Also I sometime choose my crew while still building, thinking that I'll launch soon. Then I realise I have to keep building but somewhere down the line the game forgets who I chose to crew the ship. I'd be nice if the game remembered who I chose, and keep those in that ship, and unavailable for other ships.

I agree. Most of the times I always get Jeb assigned to my Interstellar Rocket when I don't want him to. (I want to reserve the original Trio for special missions). And then I have to go back to the VAB (takes a while to load between those) and select my Neilzor Kerman which has 2% stupidity and 98% courage.