[REQ] "Stage Manager" for docking to prevent overlapping stages.

[Galane]

A plugin that would be very useful when assembling interplanetary craft in orbit is a "stage manager" to automatically add/renumber stages of two craft so their stages don't overlap.

For example, I have a lander with 10 or so stages (used to drop various parts during ascent from Eve) to dock nose to nose with the transfer vehicle (itself assembled from 7 docked pieces and its messed up staging from those dockings already re-arranged) that has 17 combined stages.

So when they're docked everything overlaps and it's a major pain in the posterior to poke around and drag everything into the right order - and make sure not to disturb the setup for the docked lander or the lander for Gilly and Rover for Eve that were launched already on the transfer vehicle core.

Some way to just add stages "above" the docking port and fill them with the setup from the docking ship would be soooo useful, especially if it also had the ability to swap the staging above/below the split in cases where it puts the wrong ship at the bottom of the staging stack.

[Lanterfanter]

That would be amazing! In fact I'd go so far as to say it becomes stock with perhaps even a letter before number or different colour (A1 A2 for vessel 1, B1 B2 for vessel 2 etc.)