SRV Hanger Should Have Cargo Capacity

[TheMightyFozz]

If I was flying through space in my ship I would leave some cargo in the SRV.. ..it seems logical.. ..much easier to off load.

So please make the vehicle hangers have cargo capacity.

Single slot ones = 2
Double Slot ones = 4

If a vehicle is not in the hanger please double that!

 

[varonica]

If I was flying through space in my ship I would leave some cargo in the SRV.. ..it seems logical.. ..much easier to off load.

So please make the vehicle hangers have cargo capacity.

Single slot ones = 2
Double Slot ones = 4

If a vehicle is not in the hanger please double that!

It's an SRV hanger, why would it be easier to offload? I should think cargo racks, being designed for the job, would be set up to be loaded and unloaded more efficiently than a hanger designed with all the fixtures and fittings to repair and carry a wheeled vehicle. As for carrying things in the SRV while in space, yes I would be happy with that since I don't carry stuff, but I can just imagine the complaints when someone pops out to pick up an abandoned escape pod only to realise they already had several loaded into the SRV they had forgotten about and then they have to drive back to the ship to offload them.

The thing is 2 or 4 tons of extra cargo space is, well, pretty pointless in the grand scheme of cargo delivery where a properly fitted out cargo hauler may have a cargo capacity of 700 tons, and just plain annoying to manage when you are out exploring and picking up escape pods. It did used to be the case where you had to manually empty the SRV each time you wanted to pick up some pods or abandoned goods, and that was a right pain in the derriere, so they changed it to empty automatically when you docked with the ship, there was a good reason for that, most people hated having to spend time manually emptying the SRV just to go out and pick up more stuff.

 

[metatheurgist]

Why would that be logical? Your SRV only just fits in the hangar, there is no room for cargo. When you deploy your SRV the wheels have to unfold from over your head because it's bent out of shape to fit in the hangar.

 

[nanite2000]

If I understand the OP correctly, he's suggesting that SRV hangars should award you with 2T/4T cargo capacity, because each SRV has 2T cargo capacity on board. Since the cargo is stored *in* the SRV, it doesn't make sense that cargo space isn't still available when your SRV enters the hangar bay.

So, I agree with him on that.

However, I don't agree that the the capacity should be doubled if the vehicle is not in the cargo bay (presumably if it's destroyed). My understanding is that cargo bays are designed for cargo canisters, so a hangar bay would not be designed to accommodate anything other than an SRV.

 

[metatheurgist]

If I understand the OP correctly, he's suggesting that SRV hangars should award you with 2T/4T cargo capacity, because each SRV has 2T cargo capacity on board. Since the cargo is stored *in* the SRV, it doesn't make sense that cargo space isn't still available when your SRV enters the hangar bay.

It does when your SRV has to fold to enter the hangar. You cargo space is normally above the cockpit, that's where your wheels go when it's in the hangar. You can see this when your deploy your SRV.

 

[nanite2000]

It does when your SRV has to fold to enter the hangar. You cargo space is normally above the cockpit, that's where your wheels go when it's in the hangar. You can see this when your deploy your SRV.

Huh - today I learned.

But cargo does not show on the SRV when collected. It disappears, implying that it’s stored inside. Isn’t that what the big box behind the driver’s cab is for?

 

[Daynen]

There's actually some logic to the OP's request; If your SRV brings 2T cargo into your ship and you have no cargo space, you can't bring the cargo, right? Why not? Where does it go? Think about it: why would your SRV not be able to just HOLD the cargo you brought aboard? It certainly can't be a weight limit problem, so this actually makes a bit of sense now that I think about it. Doubling the space when empty doesn't make sense, nor would it be something anyone ever does purposefully, but allowing your SRV to act as 2T of extra space if you're full doesn't actually sound that unreasonable.

 

[metatheurgist]

Huh - today I learned.

But cargo does not show on the SRV when collected. It disappears, implying that it’s stored inside. Isn’t that what the big box behind the driver’s cab is for?

Yeah, and that's where you wheels end up. Though I'd like to see the animation of it happening but that's the lore explanation.

 

[varonica]

Huh - today I learned.

But cargo does not show on the SRV when collected. It disappears, implying that it’s stored inside. Isn’t that what the big box behind the driver’s cab is for?

It would require a number of different models if the cargo was to be visible, escape pods are a different shape from cargo containers are a different shape from etc......

SRV's, physically and visually need a good work over, this may also be part of atmospheres. Different SRV's, larger ones that require larger bays so instead of carrying two small ones you could carry one larger one etc. Cargo should be carried on the outside of the SRV to make sense, in reality you would jump out, hook it up to the cargo straps then use winches to tighten it and fasten it to the side of the SRV. I mean it's already in vacuum so going to the trouble of enclosing it for the trip back to your ship just wouldn't make sense. The big box, I am imagining, would contain life support, fuel storage and batteries etc. So it's really just a temporary carrying solution and should be offloaded into a proper cargo bay before docking. You would park next to your ship, deploy the cargo hoist and stow it away with the rest of the cargo.

So logically and practically it makes sense that the SRV and the SRV hanger can't be used as standard cargo bays while in flight. It's a game, spending all that time getting out and fastening cargo, then loading it into the ship before docking would be fun....about twice. Even then think about how many times people have been under fire while carrying cargo, if under fire carrying cargo in the SRV you should have to release it using the emergency release before rushing in to dock, but again it's a game so we need to make it fun which means sometimes not being annoyingly realistic.

 

[nanite2000]

Huh - today I learned.

But cargo does not show on the SRV when collected. It disappears, implying that it’s stored inside. Isn’t that what the big box behind the driver’s cab is for?

Yeah, and that's where you wheels end up. Though I'd like to see the animation of it happening but that's the lore explanation.

Good answer, and it actually makes a lot of sense.

 

[Morbad]

We need external cargo containers, or a tow line.

But cargo does not show on the SRV when collected. It disappears, implying that it’s stored inside. Isn’t that what the big box behind the driver’s cab is for?

Yes, it's stored in the box, but it makes sense that this box is unloaded when you board the ship, so the box can collapse and the wheels be folded into that space before safely stowing the SRV.

If only Frontier put so much thought into where the three hundred tons of SLFs spit out of a 40 ton module come from.