optional savegame-independent subassemblies

[SirJodelstein]

I think it would be immensely useful to make subassemblies optionally savegame-independent. For me, the subassemblies tend to be lifters, stages, rovers etc that i want to use across various savegames anyway. Currently, i regularly copy subassemblies from my "Testing" sandbox game to a career mode savegame. Also, whenever i modify or update a subassembly in one savegame, i need to copy it to my other saves, etc. This could easyly be improved by optional global subassemblies.

Maybe this could be realized as a a simple checkbox for each subassembly that marks that subassembly as "global", and moves the subassembly from the local savegame folder to another folder that can be accessed from each savegame.

[Caelib]

This is a good suggestion, but I imagine the reason it isn't like this right now is because of the tech tree in Career Mode. FYI, you can manually copy the subassemblies yourself from save-to-save, they are located in a similar path as this:

[PathToTheGame]\Kerbal Space Program\saves\[YourSaveGame]\Subassemblies

[SirJodelstein]

This is a good suggestion, but I imagine the reason it isn't like this right now is because of the tech tree in Career Mode.

I dont see why that would be a hinderance - the "load craft" dialog has a "invalid/unresearched part detection" check as well, same could be used for the subassemblies.

And yes, i know that its possible to do manual copies. Like i said in the OP, this is the way i am currently doing it. Its just feels like unneccesary overhead, and leads to the "maintain consistent state across multiple copies" problem.

[RadHazard]

I think this is a pretty good idea. I wouldn't mind it if it were extended to craft files as well. The tech tree problem could be handled by simply forbidding the launch of any rocket with parts that haven't been unlocked yet.