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Integrate common mod resources into stock for mod uniformity, even if not used in stock gameplay


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Given how much modding has driven the popularity of KSP, methinks a means of easing comparability issues between different mods is a fair suggestion to make. Because of the way different mods can approach the same issue, sometimes you wind up with redundancies and incompatibilities: mods that introduce things like nuclear reactors might have the same resource concept - enriched uranium, for example - but use unique versions of enriched uranium that only work with their specific mod counterparts. Another example are mods that introduce the concept of life support - like TAC LS and Civilian Populations - which approach the same issue with dramatically different resources and processes and as such require quite a bit of jiggery-buggery to get them working together.

In light of these sorts of clashes, then, it might be worthwhile to set standards for many of the more common resources that pop up in mods such to ease these sorts of conflicts - and should Squad decide they want to integrate those kinds of functions into later updates, they'll then already have some of the fundamentals already mapped out. Off the top of my head, I can think of:

Basic Elements:

Hydrogen, Deuterium, Tritium

Helium-3, Helium-4

Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen

Neon, Argon, Krypton

Thorium-232

Uranium-233 and 235 and 238

Plutonium-239

Antimatter

Exotic Matter

Biological resources:

Ice

Food, Clean Water, Clean Air

Solid Waste, Liquid Waste, Dirty Air

Heck, you could probably just use a "1 unit = 1 kilogram" quick and easy pattern for all of these and have it work well enough once modders finished adjusting consumption and conversion rates. Just ensuring that universal bedrock so everybody's playing on a level field.

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