Retire an available kerbal

[jormaje]

Could be a good idea have a button to retire available Kerbals and put them on the applicants list

Something like this

Edited July 29, 2014 by jormaje

[Tex]

There wouldn't be much point to a "retire" or "lay off" button. Not only could you simply put unwanted crew members on some long-duration mission to out them out of sight and mind, but you could always edit the persistence file and erase them that way.

[K77LostNSpace]

I always fly Bill, Bob and Jeb over to the nearest building so they are not longer in my list of options, they are assumed "on mission". They get to watch all the launches of other astronauts and laugh.

[federicoaa]

Please refer to my signature.

[M3tal_Warrior]

Please refer to my signature.

May I call you a savage?

I don't kill Kerbals for being unfit to work in a space program, due to being either outstanding cowards or blatantly stupid. I know it doesn't really make a difference, but it gives the right feeling to put intelligent Kerbals into science labs. So I'd really like the suggestion, even more I'd like to dismiss applicants forever for said reasons.

[federicoaa]

I know, I was just kidding.

Also, +1 to the suggestion, I think it's good to be able to fire kerbonauts.

[Victor Grissom]

I'd love something like this. I currently use two mods, Real Roster and Final Frontier, for flavor. I like Jeb, Bob, and Bill, but they're not my kerbals. Instead, I started with Rotop and have added Rodon and Gerfield through rescues. There's something nice about being able to remember how each kerbal joined my program. Some attachment is a good thing, especially now that there are consequences for failure, like loss of reputation and funds.

For now, Real Roster has a blacklist which you can add to or you could edit the persistence file, but knowing that the kerbals who have given so much to the space program are now dropping in on KSP to see old colleagues is cool.

Cheers,

-Vic

[jormaje]

Yeah! They did it!

Thank you KSP Dev Team...

[Bill Phil]

You can fire them. Which is important because of the Kerbonaut Limit in the Lower KSC Tiers.

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Yeah! They did it!

Thank you KSP Dev Team...

http://i.imgur.com/r8g8ezn.png

I think that's only for the Big Three.

[Anquietas314]

I think that's only for the Big Three.

Nope:

[dryer_lint]

They also added something about "giving them up for dead" if they are missing, but I'm confused about how the whole missing-killed-respawn system works... c:

[Bill Phil]

Nope:

http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/545265666840143441/564B49D46C439561AE62DD4F416944DD1ECEF46B/

I was referring to uh fire them and they move to available list. I'll have to check...

[klgraham1013]

There wouldn't be much point to a "retire" or "lay off" button. Not only could you simply put unwanted crew members on some long-duration mission to out them out of sight and mind, but you could always edit the persistence file and erase them that way.

...or, instead of doing all that, they could add a retire button.

edit: Seems, it's already in. Still, the lengths some of the community will go to to defend Squad not implementing something into the game.

[r4pt0r]

If I may suggest, build a "resort" and drive/fly it somewhere at least 2.5km from KSC. maybe a hitchhiker hut village on a beach somewhere?

[eddiew]

Yeah! They did it!

But Bob's the smartest one! Why would you fire him?