Fixing Station Contracts

[MidwestB]

I just did a few cotracts for stations in orbit around Kerbin and ran into a problem.

Searching the board, I found this thread: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/105623-Ideas-for-making-the-station-outpost-contracts-better

But I don't think it matches with what I would like to suggest.

The contracts only seem to require that batteries, antennae and docking ports be launched new, which could be done with a small shuttle, as long as the complete station has something else stipulated in the contract, such as a science lab or cupola, which doesn't need to be launched new. The problem is when you dock the newly launched equipment with a preexisting station, the parts are marked as old.

Here's an example of what I did to figure this out:

I did a contract, got a station up and then took another contract that was for the same station, plus a science lab. The first module had space for 5 kerbals and all the equipment (it didn't need a science lab and didn't have one) while the second module had the same equipment and a science lab, but only had space for 2 kerbals instead of five. Launching the second module, the objectives for the newly launched power, antenna and docking port along with a science lab were completed. When the module docked with the first, the room for 5 kerbals objective also became completed, but the one for launching the new equipment became unchecked. I had to do another launch to dock a 3 man pod onto the second module and undock from the first module to get the contract completed.

If there's a way to tell that a module docked to a station was launched after a contract was accepted, I think it would make it possible to keep using a same station to dock to and maybe result in contracts requiring more components on a station since you could already have some in orbit.

[tater]

Other than being spammed with too many such contracts, I'm not sure I have a problem with be contracted to add to existing stations.

[CaptainKipard]

Yes this seems like a bug rather than a feature.