Improvements to buying/selling cargo

This has come up before but all the threads I found are locked and never got any form of reply from FD. (I'm not even sure any of them were originally in the suggestions forum in fact, but I found some in an archive.)

I own a T-7 (264 t capacity right now) and it's pretty tedious to buy cargo - if you need 99 tons of something then apart from clicking and waiting a while, it also takes extreme care not to end up releasing the button while you're a couple of tens of tons away from your target... you will I imagine know the problem quite well if you've traded large amounts.

Can we please have an interface to just enter a number when buying? Having a sell-all button would be nice, cos it would save time, but it bothers me a lot less because press-and-hold until it's all gone is rather easier than buying a specific number. (Buying one thing until your hold is full is easy too of course but most of my cash has come from trading missions with 5 different commodities.)
 
This has come up before but all the threads I found are locked and never got any form of reply from FD. (I'm not even sure any of them were originally in the suggestions forum in fact, but I found some in an archive.)

I own a T-7 (264 t capacity right now) and it's pretty tedious to buy cargo - if you need 99 tons of something then apart from clicking and waiting a while, it also takes extreme care not to end up releasing the button while you're a couple of tens of tons away from your target... you will I imagine know the problem quite well if you've traded large amounts.
Can we please have an interface to just enter a number when buying? Having a sell-all button would be nice, cos it would save time, but it bothers me a lot less because press-and-hold until it's all gone is rather easier than buying a specific number. (Buying one thing until your hold is full is easy too of course but most of my cash has come from trading missions with 5 different commodities.)

+1 We need that!

While we're at it, can we add options to sort the commodities list by the columns? If I'm selling stuff, sorting the list by "amount in cargo" instead would be a massive timesaver.

That would be also very helpfull, also +1 :)
 
Sounds pretty good, the actual system only works if you are moving only one kind of good. Numerical input would be very helpful.

+1
 
+1

Ah yes, the "buy/sell" counter, I've a T9 and I stack small cargo missions, its annoying how one has to play "whack-a-mole" with the buy counter through over-shoot and under-shoot of required quantities. Please keep VR players in mind with our lack of keyboard support.

The "Delivery" cargo missions should be a different colour after being accepted so that they stand out in the stacked cargo missions, this will help as a reminder to collect the cargo and also make it easy to distinguish/locate these cargo missions.
 
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Definitely yes to:
- optional numeric input for transfer size
- sortable columns

I'll also add:
- filterable rows (only cargo which can be bought here, only cargo which I have in my hold). It's great that there's lots of types of salvage to collect and hand in, but it really clutters up the trade screen if you don't have any with you.
- the slider on mission load/unload screens should default to load/unload maximum possible, not load/unload zero, since that's by far the most common thing I want to do with them.
 
+1

Ah yes, the "buy/sell" counter, I've a T9 and I stack small cargo missions, its annoying how one has to play "whack-a-mole" with the buy counter through over-shoot and under-shoot of required quantities. Please keep VR players in mind with our lack of keyboard support.

The "Delivery" cargo missions should be a different colour after being accepted so that they stand out in the stacked cargo missions, this will help as a reminder to collect the cargo and also make it easy to distinguish/locate these cargo missions.

While we're at it, I'd really really really like the sliders for picking up and delivering cargo to start at the top of the range instead of the bottom. I can't think of any situation where I'd ever want to pick up less than my cargo capacity or the total mission payload, nor deliver any less than everything I have. Even a "collect all" button separate from the slider would be great.

Likewise, highlighting "you have an active mission to source this commodity" in the list (and possibly moving all such commodities to the top, the same way the mission board moves factions to the top of the list instead of ordering by influence if you have missions to turn in) would be fantastic. Bonus points if it tallies up all such missions and told you how much you need to buy. Bonus bonus points if it just gives you a massive button to "buy all" or "buy mission payload" like above. Likewise a "sell all" to empty your cargo hold.
 
Hehe. You are all absolutely correct with the suggestions to enhance things even more. I confess I was kinda starting small/modest in the hope that it would be regarded as a minor task and thus not end up at the back of a five-year queue :D
 
While we're at it, can we add options to sort the commodities list by the columns? If I'm selling stuff, sorting the list by "amount in cargo" instead would be a massive timesaver.
That would be nice.
My suggestion would be a filter for items available / in your hold.
 
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