Overrides and memory
Something I've always been wondering about .. how does the game actually behave when it encounters overrides / redundant data? Like when there's one resource 0000000000001234 in the game packages, and...
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My suggestion is to assume that they can be loaded in any order by the game, that way you do not assume anything that is untrue, especially if someone chooses to rename files (and as you mentioned different platforms, could be a difference between file systems on the same platform as well (eg. ntfs vs fat32)). As we do not have the concept of unofficial patches and such I see no reason to mess with priority, it is better to talk about compatibility between mods imo. Could have it as a feature of a mod manager though, if it becomes a problem (one could look at skyrim, though there you explicitly set priority for all mods).
