The cargo loading system they've cobbled together to rush the Hull C out for sale is a complete farce as well.
Trading with the Hull C is only available between the 4 main orbital stations and with only 4 commodities, 1 of which is completely worthless. You have to dock the ship, head to the ASOP terminal and store it, make your way to the admin office via the elevator, purchase the cargo...head back up to the ASOP terminal, recall the ship, undock...at which time, an automated cargo loading ATC is supposed to chime in assigning you a loading area...which doesn't always work meaning several manual calls to the cargo loading ATC to activate it. If it doesn't activate...you've just lost all your funds and the cargo you just bought.
Once the loading area is assigned, the ship has to remain absolutely stationary within the glowing green rectangle whilst the 32 SCU boxes magically and individually snap into place on the exended arms of the Hull C...which means powering down the ship completely to aleviate any drifting. Any movement of the ship, either voluntary or involuntary cancels the loading timer. Any ship flying within a certain distance of the loading area cancels the loading timer until such time the area is cleared. If the timer (set to 2 mins) is interrupted enough times, the entire loading/unloading process is cancelled and the Hull C owner loses all funds used to buy the cargo plus the actual cargo itself.
As for profit margins? You can make a maximum of around 2200 aUEC profit from each load of 4800 SCU trading in either food, iron or hydrogen..scrap can't be traded between the orbital stations and waste has exactly the same buy/sell price everywhere making a loss when fuelling and repairs are included in the transaction.
As an example of how cobbled together this farcical cargo 'refactor' is for the Hull C, using a C2, I can ship 650 SCU of beryl to either Lorville or area 18 and make well over 3500aUEC profit for each run.
Complete and utter farce
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