Change some KSC Facility names, and tweak contracts vs space program missions

[tater]

Some of the facilities are poorly named.

Mission Control is where they run operations that are in flight, it's not a business office.

The Tracking Station should become "Mission Control and Tracking Station."

What is now 'Mission Control" can be re-labeled to be "Mission Planning."

The functionalities remain the same, but I would suggest one improvement regarding "contracts."

Have it so that commercial contracts are treated separately from internally designed missions. So Linus Kerman can pitch YOUR space programs possible next goals alongside commercial contracts.

Commercial would be parts testing, satellite launches, some stations, and so forth. Most of the "pure science" would be labeled with the player's flag, and the missions (labeled missions, not contracts) would be from the collective minds of Gene, Linus, et al. "Explore the Mun," that's a MISSION goal. Space program stuff, not a "contract."

Missions would have the up-front money, but more of it, perhaps, with the balance not as "payment," but as "earned more budget for the next project due to success." Only a difference in description, but a meaningful one.

The player is then steering his program from limited missions he staff come up with (and with not that many words to explore, the choices are very finite anyway).

This totally explains why you get science form what are now contracts, they are missions designed by your scientists to get the most science.

Edited January 15, 2015 by tater