How do modders feel about an official MM?

[Waifu Art Thou Romeo]

I'm curious what experienced modders' opinions are about there being an official module manager. I'm skeptical it will be as good as what the community would make, but I don't have enough experience to say that confidently.

[bigyihsuan]

It would be real nice to have an official ModuleManager; you wouldn't need to install another mod and you could just write a quick patch into a text file, put it into GameData, and KSP2 will load it like everything else.

If we could also not use the Module Manager syntax, maybe use JS/TS/JSON or something that's not MM syntax, that would help with accessibility a little bit.

[Radar]

I'd like to see them use Steam Workshop (used by many games that have mods) if I'm honest. Modders could put a price to their mod or make it free. DLC's would work through the same way.

[RayneCloud]

For those of us that have looked, such a thing is already present in the game files. Quite a bit of it by the looks, but I could be wrong. 

[AtomicTech]

Good Lord, I need this

[Waifu Art Thou Romeo]

For the people who want it, what would it make easier for you?

[HansAcker]

On 2/26/2023 at 6:57 PM, bigyihsuan said:

It would be real nice to have an official ModuleManager; you wouldn't need to install another mod and you could just write a quick patch into a text file, put it into GameData, and KSP2 will load it like everything else.

I think one needs to distinguish between a mod manager (that loads code and assets) and KSP 1's ModuleManager (which doesn't really manage mods but patches configs in memory). Only the former is probably going to be implemented officially, the latter might have to be a mod again.

The ability to quickly clone a part and change its values and (part-) modules is a pretty useful feature. I hope we'll see something like that emerge, although KSP 2's part structure is probably more complex.

Edited February 28, 2023 by HansAcker