Bug #13518
Resurrected Kerbals Don't Level Up In Science Lab
10%
Description
When a Kerbal has died and resurrected, he or she will no gain experience in a lab. If you edit the persistence file to remove references to the Kerbal dying, they will level up.
See attached a save and logs from a stock game where I flew 3 flights (with some reverts):
1) A launch to put a lab in orbit, with Jeb. He leveled up immediately because I had that setting turned on. I turned it off after the flight.
2) A launch to kill Jeb via lithobraking.
3) A launch with the resurrected Jeb and Bob up to that orbital lab, where when I right clicked and "Level Up Kerbals" Bob got L1 and Jeb got nothing.
NOTE: I cannot attach files for some reason, it times out. I have uploaded it to my personal website: http://pulpaudio.com/ksp/exp_bug.zip
History
#1
Updated by Neilski over 5 years ago
Updated by - Version changed from 1.2.2 to 1.6.0
- Expansion Core Game added
Still an issue with 1.6.0.2395
#2
Updated by bewing over 5 years ago
Updated by - Status changed from New to Confirmed
- % Done changed from 0 to 10
They don't level up on the ground, either, it looks like to me.
#4
Updated by Neilski over 5 years ago
By a coincidence, my team (including at least two that were affected by this bug) got back to KSC last night and they actually did level up on craft recovery... So for me the problem seems to be confined to the lab.
#5
Updated by Northstar1989 almost 4 years ago
Updated by Also seems to be an issue in current version, when using the mod FMRS: which splits the save and then re-integrates.
This may shed some light on why the Kerbals won't level up. It's not just resurrection (although in FMRS Kerbals on the upper stage often die in a branch where you fly back side-boosters: and then this gets overwritten by the main save). It appears to have something to so with the save file itself, or how Kerbals are flagged as killed.
Pretty sure have also seen this bug withoout mods being involved, when a vessel crashed (killing the crew), I reverted to launch BEFORE the vessel destroyed sceeen appeared, and then managed to fly the ship all the way to orbit- these newly recruited Kerbals could no longer reach level 1 from my orbital science labs...