Shipwright Archive
Thread: SUGGESTION- Transferring cargo while in space
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BelGeode
Sun May 22, 2005 11:00 pm
#1
It's almost a no brainer...
My buddy in guild told me that he has to land in order to transfer mined cargo from his hold to his inventory.
His suggestion is simple enough to say, but who knows if it is simple to do.
Make it so that you can transfer in space... either limited to a space station (neutral), or while in the Y-8 as a little terminal similar to the bank. The current method seems too slow to transfer and for shipwrights, time is money.
I dunno any feedback? Ideas? Devs? Anyone?
My buddy in guild told me that he has to land in order to transfer mined cargo from his hold to his inventory.
His suggestion is simple enough to say, but who knows if it is simple to do.
Make it so that you can transfer in space... either limited to a space station (neutral), or while in the Y-8 as a little terminal similar to the bank. The current method seems too slow to transfer and for shipwrights, time is money.
I dunno any feedback? Ideas? Devs? Anyone?
Jagged-F3l
Sun May 22, 2005 11:43 pm
#2
A friend of mine has been bugging me to post his idea. Allow ships to dock with each other and transfer cargo. The transfer would be to the pilot's inventory (or in the case of POB ship, the loot box). The mechanism is there to dock/undock. All we need is a "transfer" command.
StevieBUKDroidEngineer
Mon May 23, 2005 6:22 am
#3
Also what about repairing ships, partly in space, as a freelance pilot? Using the repairs kits I buy from shipwrights? Han-Solo if I remember right, could partly repair his Millnium Falgon while traveling in space.
Jagged-F3l
Mon May 23, 2005 7:28 am
#4
StevieBUKDroidEngineer wrote:
Also what about repairing ships, partly in space, as a freelance pilot? Using the repairs kits I buy from shipwrights? Han-Solo if I remember right, could partly repair his Millnium Falgon while traveling in space.
Well, you can do exactly this with the POB ships. However, I only read of one instance of a pilot hopping out of their X-wing and effecting repairs.
Kylania
Mon May 23, 2005 2:01 pm
#5
CommTampers wrote:
We should have some way of unloading cargo bays on POB ships while underway.
Space the passengers!!
RebalMarineHunter
Tue May 24, 2005 12:09 am
#6
They can't transfer from the ship to the inventory, there needs to be a gate to control the amount you can get in one session or the value of the product would drop a lot. Also, it would negate the need for higher cargo holds or even the point of cargo holds at all.
But, a fun comprimise would work nicely! How about making it so you can dock with MP or the Y-8 and transfer to there cargo holds?
This would give the MP and Y-8 ships more usefullness in a big way while still leaving the need for cargo holds and giving value to larger ones.
I can see being the tech guy as a crew member of the Y-8, having to give permission for smaller ships to doc with it to transfer cargo. This would also give more value to having someone in that seat.
This would also be a first step to crippling/boarding of player craft for hostile take overs, or for boarding enemy corvetts/space stations for takeover.
Anyhow, it would be helpfull to be sure.
CommTampers
Tue May 24, 2005 12:54 am
#7
We should have some way of unloading cargo bays on POB ships while underway.
Tater27
Thu May 26, 2005 11:18 pm
#8
I think that this would br great way to do things in space with the asteroid mining part using the spacestation as well as the Y-8 transfer even (which would make this ship more useful then what it is now)
RandorDax
Thu May 26, 2005 11:32 pm
#9
I think we need to be able to access, or at least look in the cargo on our OWN ships first. Then we can talk about transfers and such. 
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