Slitherine

The Mercury Suborbital Flight data is incorrect. It lists 11 mission control specialists and 0 astronauts.
It also does not want to give credit for a successful unmanned suborbital flight. The prestige is granted and Mission Success is listed in the Unmanned Suborbital Flight window, but when looking at the Manned Suborbital Flight window a 15% unreliability penalty is still listed for not completing the unmanned mission.
Attached is the mission information screen for the Suborbital Flight.

Hello Tom,

Welcome to the SPM forums!

TomDocHolliday wrote:The Mercury Suborbital Flight data is incorrect. It lists 11 mission control specialists and 0 astronauts.

When you say "data", which screen do you mean?

TomDocHolliday wrote: It also does not want to give credit for a successful unmanned suborbital flight. The prestige is granted and Mission Success is listed in the Unmanned Suborbital Flight window, but when looking at the Manned Suborbital Flight window a 15% unreliability penalty is still listed for not completing the unmanned mission.

Notice that there was a bug in the penalizations listed by the advisor. It's been fixed and it will be released in the next patch. Notice that the reliability assessment doesn't have any impact on the actual mission.

Cheers,

Ignacio,
Thanks for the reply.
The listing of flight controllers and astronauts required was on the information screen for the specific mission nested within the manage programs menu.
I will try to attach a screenshot again. Please let me know if it does not attach properly this time.
Thanks,
Tom

Hello Tom,

Yes, I see what you mean now. This is the first time we get a report about this, and I think your observation makes sense. Let me explain: where it says "Number of flight controllers required", it means the number of positions to fill at Mission Control. For this particular mission, 10 of them will be Flight Controllers and 1 of them an astronaut (for the CAPCOM position). Where it says "Number of Astronauts", it means the number of individuals needed in order to fill the crew slots. Notice that we might change the Mission Control layout for this mission in the future, since a CAPCOM position doesn't make sense for this situation (and it wasn't featured in the real-life unmanned tests, either).

We'll revisit this and reword things better so that it becomes more clear. Thanks for pointing this out.

Cheers,