Can't get the "Rescue Lodeny Kerman from Kerbin" mission

[m00n]

Hi there,

Well, title say all my problem. I'm on the Rescue mission, and I can't active Lodeny, either from space or Tracking station (it says that "Cannot with to an object we do not own").

I've got my ship near him, I came with Jebediah close enough to him (like stick to him..), and still can't get the control of Lodeny.

So I can't get him in my rescue ship!

Is this an issue? Did I misunderstanding something?

Thx!

m00n

[vexx32]

Yeah, it's not made super clear. You need to get within a few kilometres of the stranded kerbal, then switch to him with [ or ] key.

[Streetwind]

You cannot activate the Kerbal before approaching it because the contract uses the same spawning system as asteroids do. In other words, until you get within 2.5km, there is no actual Kerbal to activate, just a marker in the tracking station. The Kerbal is only created for the first time when entering physics range.

[lilmik552]

This makes sense now...but also bums me out because I canceled the mission because I couldn't figure it out haha. At the time I played it, these questions weren't posted yet. I'm glad I did read these though.

[dryer_lint]

Hmm... still, the OP says he was right next to the Kerbal, but he couldn't switch?

[qazsedcft]

He was trying to switch from the Tracking Station, which doesn't work. I think this should be addressed by the devs because many people don't know about the [ and ] keys.

[BigD145]

Some people don't read instructions or keymaps.

[CPLWeeks]

Yeah, it's not made super clear. You need to get within a few kilometres of the stranded kerbal, then switch to him with [ or ] key.

Perfect! This is just what I was looking for! Thank you!

[The_Rocketeer]

Some people don't read instructions or keymaps.

Generally people do read instructions in games, because the norm is now for the instructions/tutorial to be built into the game rather than a 500+ page game manual such as those that were around when I started playing videogames. There's no instruction of how to 'rescue' the Kerbal except to put him in a ship, and land the ship. There's also no reason why anybody would look for keybinds for a feature that in their experience simply doesn't exist. I've looked up keybinds for all sorts of things in KSP, and changed a few, but even I never noticed there was a keybind for switching crafts/Kerbs. I suspect that 95% of KSP gamers think that the main way to switch craft is still to go to the Tracking Station - even changing in the map view is a relatively new feature.

You should be careful not to alienate the uninitiated on these forums, as what might seem like a dumb or lazy question to you may be something that turns a lot of people off the game.

[Cerberus738]

Generally people do read instructions in games, because the norm is now for the instructions/tutorial to be built into the game rather than a 500+ page game manual such as those that were around when I started playing videogames.

And this is why the first thing I do when I buy a new game is go straight the settings menu.