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Personal opinion: There are two big approaches to making a resource mod. One is the simulation track, which is where people are saying "well if we think of Kethane as a liquid...". And that's great. But, imagine a starting gamer who's just learning what an orbit is, and you tell them they're going to need to plop down several hours between learning what your resource system does and flying the parts into place if they want to refuel because of THE REALISM- that's basically just a side quest. For many players, the real goal is "I want to refuel a craft mid-mission" so they can explore more. The part you need for that has a drill on one end and a gas pipe on the other. Maybe two parts (drill+pump), with the option for a third (drill+pump and storage tank). You could balance it by being horribly inefficient so it only gets a little fuel out of each zone (but enough to refuel a decent-size craft in a couple of hops), then higher up the tech tree people can unlock all the crazy sim bits so they can strip every available resource off Mun and have their mega-base. KSP is great for if you're a parent and your kid wanted to know what orbiting is. You fire up the game and within a few hours you have your kid building rockets that can hit orbit. In that same situation, if a kid hears about mining asteroids, I'd like to be able to just stick a drill in and make it bleed. I'm a programmer, although zero experience with modding KSP. But I'll try to keep tabs and lend a hand if I possibly can.

I'm active for KSP in other places but I registered for this forum just because I hate bad science that much. Repeat after me: THE SOLAR ROADWAYS GUY IS AN IDIOT. THE SOLAR ROADWAYS GUY DEFRAUDED THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AND ITS PEOPLE OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. SCIENCE ILLITERACY IS KILLING AMERICA. Thunderfoot is an actively working materials scientist- it is quite literally his job (when he's not doing YouTube) to do tests on materials. Even if you don't like any of Tfoot's other stuff, this is one series where the guy is absolutely qualified to speak on this subject and for-real know what he's saying. In Thunderfoot's videos he demonstrates experiments an 8-year-old can do, to show what a horrible idea solar roadways are. Experiments a grown person should have done before trying to raise millions of dollars on Kickstarter. The surface is hard? Well it's also brittle, a handful of dirt will turn a glass roadway into a mess in a single day of light traffic. How can you test that? Grab a piece of glass of similar hardness to what they're promising, drop some dirt on it, and rub away. Whoops, I guess this whole idea is moronic. "B-but he's just trying to do something nice." No he's not. That idiot made MILLIONS OF DOLLARS SPEWING NONSENSE. He is not properly informed on the things he's commenting about, and his lunacy has not only cost people quite a lot of money, but there's been an immeasurably higher cost done by the damage to the public understanding of science by this and "thorium cars" and other baloney. The refusal of the media or of people of good sense to stomp on this idiocy is hurting us all dearly. Don't let the solar roadways guy fool you- he's a moron trying to use science-sounding words to make money. Don't tolerate any fools who let snake-oil salesman like the solar roadways guy get away with his verbal hoodoo. It's not cool, and we must not tolerate it. "Our consciousness exists as irrational acceptance; non-judgment is mirrored in your own destiny." -Is this a deep quote, or random nonsense generated by wisdomofchopra.com?