After watching the "closing ceremonies" again, it sounds like they aren't giving up completely on the resources idea but just on their initial plans on how to do it. Looking at the charts they released a while ago, I agree that it looked way too complex to be fun to play with. And I'm glad they've decided to go back to the drawing board to get it right. But with that said, I'd still rather have them work on the resources system as a priority over the multiplayer option. With their time and energy focused on developing a MP option, we won't see stock resources until the game is almost finished. And to me (just an opinion), it would be more fun to play with someone else on expanding a base or gathering the resources to build an off-world VAB than to fly a mission. It supposes having resources before MP.