Taleric wrote:
Yeah it did clean me out to setup. I will be able to scoop every bit of science up off Minmus with my current setup that includes a lab. Also I think I could save a great deal fueling a large interplanetary mission at Minmus vice departing fueled from LKO.
The thing is: will it compensate for the cost in terms of the time you invested in doing so?
Saving fuel is fine and all, but unless it would take you more time personally to launch that fuel to orbit yourself, or to generate the cash to pay for it, why are you doing it other than because you think the idea of doing so is cool (which I do as well)? Once you do it once and can say that you have, will you ever bother again?
That's what I mean about it having limited practical purpose. I've come to learn with time that player time is basically the dominant resource in KSP (and most games for that matter), way more so than fuel, funds, science, or what have you.
With my own resource system I was joking awhile ago that I thought I could spawn a full service gas station in orbit around Kerbin at the start of the game, and I doubt players would use it much as they wouldn't want to be bothered with docking. That's with the resource values being way higher in BTSM than stock as well, in terms of the effort it takes to get mass to orbit.
BTW, the above aside, Minmus strikes me as an odd choice for a refueling point given its orbit lays off the ecliptic. I suspect that will cause more problems than it's worth.