Lets hope we can engineer optimised cargo racks to a 100% boost in capacity.
Panther Clipper with Magical Cargo Racks?
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My speculation is to limit Hull reinforcement modules specifically; high-capacity vessels already can become extremely tough this way!
Or Shield Cell Banks.
Can easily be solved for implementation into any ship: these new SCS can hold only cargo or fuel.
Sooner or later, it will be available for engineering somewhere and placing into any ship, and by restricting what it can contain FD will prevent extra tanking AFMUing, limpeting, cell banking, whatever.... only cargo and fuel, go haul or explore more.
Ok so just aggregate the slots upwards towards C8, so that you get the same (intended) cargo potential, but less spots to fill up with other stuff.
What do you mean, like... forced slot? conversion? If I want to put a cell bank in a C8 I'll just put a cell bank in my C8 and not engineer that slot (or whichever conversion mechanic there would be). Anyway, I don't see FDEV forcing players into ship setups, not when grandfathered modules are still in the game.
I mean cargo rack, engineered (optimized, enchanted, call it what you will) to accommodate more. 10, 30, 50% more, dunno.
So you will purchase Cargo Rack 5E for any ship. Use it as a stock rack, 32 tone of whatever you want to put in. Take it to an engineer to optimize, or purchase pre-optimized for bigger capacity (40, 45 tone, whatever). Still fit into C5 slot on any ship, but works only for cargo and fuel.
They've opened the door.
My understanding is that these special cargo racks can only be installed in the special optional slots (which allow only cargo racks or fuel tanks). So even if we do get engineered cargo racks, in order to use them, you'd have to somehow prep the slot to receive them.
Otherwise they're just better cargo racks with no downside.
We actually don’t know that yet. The obvious downside is that you will be carrying more mass along with the extra cargo. Added mass generally means a slower ship and less jump range.
If they really wanted to make us think, the new special cargo racks could have inherent mass themselves. Then it comes down to moving less cargo faster or more cargo slower.
Yep.
A 'request' earlier on the Frontier discord for a 'special' module for miners, after all, the PCII has 'special' slots...
That's how it begins.
Remember the first SCO drives? Only E, plain.
Then soon, slowly, introduced all classes, then the possibility of engineering, then the magic ones from Titan elements...
That's how my Tardis cargo racks will develop - all classes, for all the ships, with no ship preparations - just with a caveat: in them, only cargo and fuel.
Power draw for their "specialness" (electronics etc) - perhaps something that would require/allow people to choose between weaponry/shields and cargo capacity?No, as my post says - and as per FDEV
You can only put these modules in SCS:
- Cargo Racks
- Fuel Tanks
- Optimised Cargo Racks
Why would you put standard CR's in there if they can take the OCR, I don't know
"Players that fly ships with the military slots will be somewhat familiar with what we have done here. What the Panther has is that it has two slots that are specifically designed to only take specific modules, kind of like the military slots, but in this case instead of it being military gear it's basically storage modules, specifically this will be cargo racks and fuel tanks. But along with it, and this is the bit that's more unique to this slot than to stuff like the military slot is that there are specific modules that will only fit in these slots, so only the Panther can have them. And that is specifically a size 8 and a size 7 on the Panther, and there are two new modules, size 7 and 8, of a optimized cargo rack that has increased capacity."
01:21:20 in the stream.
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This discussion is silly to me. Magical cargo racks?
1) They aren't just a shelf to put boxes on. They contain equipment (auto balancing, environmental stablization, etc.) for cargo.
2) we used to have a thing called a telephone that took up a fair bit of space on a desk. Computers took whole rooms. Yet, now we have both in a device small enough to put in your pocket. Its called miniaturization. It isn't magical at all.
This all seems to me to just be people looking for a reason to complain.
1) They aren't just a shelf to put boxes on. They contain equipment (auto balancing, environmental stablization, etc.) for cargo.
2) we used to have a thing called a telephone that took up a fair bit of space on a desk. Computers took whole rooms. Yet, now we have both in a device small enough to put in your pocket. Its called miniaturization. It isn't magical at all.
This all seems to me to just be people looking for a reason to complain.
Ah, the good old days! I remember working on servers that had their own dedicated rooms, with tak-mats on the way in, excellent air-conditioning (wonderful on a hot day) and a very scary tank of Halon gas hanging from the ceiling! Today's mobile phones are magnitudes more powerful, in both operation and storage, and fit in a pocket - still, I miss that air-con...
This is the way...
We are such a diverse bunch that nothing will please all of us, which is both good and bad!
Robert Maynard
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Thanks. Missed that bit (or wasn't able to give to my full attention).
I missed that too, and was trying to listen intently - must have been during one of the"Oh look, a cat!" times with my younger dog's enthusiasm to hear her own voice...
rootsrat
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Good points!
Anyone who is buying a PC for Arx is launching out of Shinrata Dezrah