New Kerbal class?

[jcewazhere]

Would it be neat to have a class that is more generalist? For example it could fix tires but not solar panels and chutes. It could reset and run science experiments but not crew a science lab. And it could fly in a straight line but not do fancy tricks like pointing normal and anti-normal.

It would mean a one crew pod wouldn't need a probe core just for SAS. Or a 2 man lander could be a real pilot and this new class while the real scientist stays in the lab module.

And if they add life support in 1.1 he could improve the food recycling or the greenhouse efficiency or something like that in addition to being okay at the other things.

If there's a mod like this, or an easy way to add classes, please let me know.

As for the name of the class I was thinking Botanist could work. He can't do much better than the other class' but he can do everything.

[IzMeLewis]

seems cool but i think it would make it to easy

[Blackcoma]

too easy huh, ok what about with 1.2 and relay systems we need a comms officer !

[King_BR0K]

a Botanist WOULD BE WAY TOO OP so i would like it

[andylaugel]

I'd just like the abiltiy to choose what skills your kerbals learn when they gain stars. An engineer who can change a tire would be a bigger help to me than one who can repack a chute. As it is, to learn to change tires, you need to send your Kerbal into a Solar orbit at least.

[Troblin]

I'd tweak your request - ask for more effort regarding modder access to kerbal types. Because people doing life support mods would sure try to get the above mentioned botanist into the set.

[jcewazhere]

@Torblin I agree we need more access to Kerbal's classes, iirc their class is tied to their name somehow.

@Andylaugel Have you seen the Engineer level fixer mod, it's not exactly what you want but it does let engineers repair tires at lower levels. The odd thing is to do it the mod maker had to edit the tire info and not the engineer class data.

[jcewazhere]

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/121379-105-engineer-level-fixer-fix-tires-at-any-level-you-want/

Forgot to put link to the mod I mentioned