Is there a mod to load craft from one persistence file into another?

[Kerba Fett]

I've got a couple of friends that recently started KSP. While I'm aware of MP mods, you need to have time to play at the same time.

What I was interested in was to collaborate on a game through e-mail. Suppose I build a space station while my friends are more interested in building a Mun base. I'd build the station then send a copy of my persistence file. They merge my orbiting station into their save just as I left it. Then when their base is done they send me a save and I merge their base into my game.

The result is that I can play with what they build and they can play with what I build.

While you can get this effect with a text editor, it's easy to make an error.

Are there any mods with a nice simple interface to do this? If not, anyone here interested in making one?

[Sobanaut]

You will be much better off by using something like dropbox and share a folder, because it syncs whats inside this folder to everyone. Result - you get instant update whenever anyone changes anything. Although you cannot play simultaneously of course.

[Kerba Fett]

But using Dropbox doesn't merge separate persistence files into one so it wouldn't allow collaboration on a single save.

After I helped him do the brakes on his car, my neighbor was nice enough to make me a program to do just what I was after. We've only used it a couple of times so far, but it's pretty cool being able to load a ship that's already in orbit into your game.