Recovering launch parts gives higher value than paid to launch it.

[born2fly145]

Hi folks,

This isn't a bug as much as a little oversight that allows cheating from the last update that included the administration building. Kudos on the last release, by the way. I've started a Hard Career mode game, and having coordinated an Aggressive Negotiating Strategy with Gus Kerman in the administration building, I am now enjoying an 8.5% discount on my launch costs. I was recently test firing and recovering a prototype interstellar transfer craft, making some tweaks, and I noticed that I'd gained a little cash from all this experimentation. It seems when recovering the parts from the launch pad, I am receiving the original value of the parts, instead of the discounted launch value. Seems like a win/win for my accounting department, but I'm sure you'll want to address this in a future update. I'd guess Rockomax will go out of business if they keep giving me more money for parts than I paid for them.

Nice work. Love the game.

Scott

[velve]

Yes, I noticed this recently too. I am also playing on hard career mode and thoroughly enjoying myself but this little oversight on my part suddenly left me scratching my head as to why I was suddenly gaining a lot more funds. On hard career mode you tend to focus a lot more on your funds so I'm sure it wouldn't bother players on say easy difficulty for example. But alas i eventually got a bit frustrated at all these "no free launches".

What I can suggest to fix this and still keep your aggressive campaigns intact is to download the "Mission Controller Extender 2" mod, What it has is a little red button you can push after a failed or in this case test launch, where it then charges you 1000 funds to revert to the VAB.

You don't need to use all the extra contracts if you don't want to, you can disable them in the GUI.

I use it with all my on launchpad tests just to try and balance the relationship between the OP of the admin building. Its not a huge difference but might help from feeling cheaty if you commit 100% for example to the negotiations giving you plus minus half your ship value added to your total funds. The red button takes you directly to the VAB thus skipping the recovered parts section, but you are still able to complete contracts after you have used it.

//oh I realized this is in the unmodded installs section sorry, not sure if you are open to mods, but all you will really be using is the red button, as I said you can disable all the other facets of mission controller and just use it for the "pay to revert".

Edited November 17, 2014 by velve

[born2fly145]

Thanks Velve, that's good to to know. Yeah, I just posted this in here so the dev's would have a heads up about it for a future release, thanks for the tip. I didn't know about that mod. My accounting department set up a little Christmas fireworks show out front of KSP with the extra cash, so no worries.

[born2fly145]

I just realized also, that each purchase that I make costs me reputations, as per the contract, so repeating this action to get lots of money will eventually make my space program look like some kind of government scam. Hmm...