Talk:Experience

It's not completely clear whether kerbals can only gain one set of experience per celestial body throughout their career, or one per mission (with no repeats). Say a kerbal goes and orbits the Mün one time. Fly by its two points, orbit is three, so they get three points. Can they do another fly by as a separate mission to get those two points? If they come back and land, do they only get two points for the landing mission? - Politas (talk) 00:12, 24 December 2014 (CST)

I'm not quite sure (and currently not able to verify this) but I'd say 'throughout their career'. My kerbals only get one XP for starting from Kerbin (or whatever that reason was (flying)) and not for each start (mission). — xZise [talk] 20:20, 24 December 2014 (CST)

I think the real question is how multiple different missions work. Say someone goes for a flight on Kerbin and is recovered, he gets 1 exp. That is pretty easy. Now say he goes on another mission into orbit around Kerbin. Does he get the full 2 exp, or just the difference of 1 exp, or since he already did Kerbin 0 exp? Also I think "flight" needs defining. How does one go for a "flight around an airless body? Being bellow a certain altitude? Being on a suborbital trajectory? If so does a hyperbolic suborbital trajectory work? Futrtrubl (talk) 19:24, 1 January 2015 (CST)

Experiments showed that only the highest score on a space body counts throughout whole career. It means that if you want to "pump" experience on Mün you will need only one "bus": it lands and then every kerbal should plant a flag. You could not "loose" any XP points (while keeping your kerbals alive :) ).Ksbes (talk)

That is not the real question: If the same Kerbal goes to orbit, they would get XP for flying around Kerbin and orbit Kerbin. As flying around Kerbin is done only the XP is added from orbiting. I think it's basically a long checklist and if one is done (aka flying around Kerbin) that is checked and the XP is granted. I'm not sure though about other bodies (will flying around Laythe 'replace' the flying around Kerbin?). But can't verify/test it currently. Also be aware that each Kerbal is treated differently. So if on your second (into orbit) mission another Kerbal was aboard with no flights at all, that Kerbal will get XP for flying AND orbiting. — xZise [talk] 13:27, 2 January 2015 (CST)