Modifying Career Mode save file to delete science earned from a biome(s)

[Wallygator]

Update: Answered due to self experimentation (whoa that sounds wrong). Deleting the sections does the trick! Thanks for listening...

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Ok sounds crazy - I want to delete all science earned from Duna exploration.

I have a surplus of science points. Enough that I believe I can delete the Duna portion of it and still have a bit extra to ensure that I don't screw up my fully exploited tech tree.

Question - is this possible? I can see in the save file what appears to be the registers for the science earned and the max science possible for each science experiment conducted in Duna biomes. Is it fair to assume that by setting these variables to Zero that I can delete all Duna Science? OR, should I delete the entire entry sections relating to Duna for each experiment package? I suppose I could backup my save, just hack away and see what happens till i get it correct - but seems polite to ask and involve any interested parties ;-)

Additional info:

A snip from my save file. Obviously there are many entries like this for all the biomes visited by experiment package.

---snip---

Science

{

id = mobileMaterialsLab@DunaFlyingLow

title = Materials Study while flying at Duna

dsc = 1

scv = 0.21875

sbv = 5

sci = 125

cap = 160

}

---end skip---

Question is then specifically, do I delete the entire section or do I set "sci" to zero?

BTW - The idea here is to design a Duna "Science Extravaganza/Jamboree" mission to attempt to grab ALL possible science in one go (Duna and Ike ideally) - probably send the heroes to do it. So executing a Duna "Science reset" is a critical success factor. If this works out, then it might be fun to try it on other planets/Moons over time. There's probably a challenge like this out there somewhere but I'm just doing this because... KSP! Perhaps doing a "science reset" on Kerbin and designing a mission to extract all science in one go - could be fun...

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,

W.

Edited May 24, 2014 by Wallygator
Updated because it been answered

[Wooks]

I tried to get all the science from Duna and Ike once but missed a couple readings, I hope you can do better.

[Wallygator]

Yes I'm going to give it a go using my Apollo style hardware. With a few enhancements. Might be a multi launch mission. Sending a separate Skylab-like unit along as well. Using the SVIb in an extended configuration so it can remain in orbit at Duna as a fuel reserve.

More importantly I did delete all the Duna and Ike references in my save file. I now show no science listed in the R&D centre and my tech tree is intact. Everything work. Haven't checked the remaining science totals with my backup save but will do that later tonight. So far so good.

[Claw]

Yes, you can just delete the whole section that you want gone. Make sure you don't leave any blank lines where you deleted, it sometimes causes problems.

Also, as it seems you found out, deleting the section doesn't effect your available science points or unlocked nodes. If you mess with the line at the beginning of the section that says "sci", then you can change your available science points. (Which I know is not what you are after, but just letting you know that is where it is effected.)

	SCENARIO
	{
		name = ResearchAndDevelopment
		scene = 7, 8, 5, 6, 9
		[COLOR="#FF0000"]sci = XXXX[/COLOR]
		Tech
		{
...