Cargo space/capacity
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per 1 ton cargo container so 56 ton cargo space min for one trip
so if only 3 ton cargo space that's quite a few trips about 18 required
so if only 3 ton cargo space that's quite a few trips about 18 required
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yes
1 wine is 1 ton correct (more than enough!
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1 wine is 1 ton correct (more than enough!
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Everything is measured in tons in E|D ... confusingly 1 ton of anything also takes up the same amount of space ... thus your 1T of cargo space will fit either 1 ton of gold or 1 tons of feathers. Or it would if feathers were a thing in E|D but you get my drift. Tea. Let’s say 1 ton of tea ...
Yeah, it makes no sense but it keeps thing simple. Otherwise they’d have had to have done it by volume measurements and then the weights for the same volume of different stuff would have had drastically different effects on your speed, jump range, etc. Actually that doesn’t sound that complicated. And might have been quite cool ...
Er ... anyway ... helping? o7
Yeah, it makes no sense but it keeps thing simple. Otherwise they’d have had to have done it by volume measurements and then the weights for the same volume of different stuff would have had drastically different effects on your speed, jump range, etc. Actually that doesn’t sound that complicated. And might have been quite cool ...
Er ... anyway ... helping? o7
Odd. Gold and other precious medals are measured today using the Troy measurements so 1 ton of gold actually weighs less than 1 ton of feathers. A Troy pound is 0.8229 of an Avoirdupois pound or 0.7465 of a Metric Pound.
Troy weight - Wikipedia
And how do you make the jump from a troy pound (which is defined according to the wikipedia article) to a troy ton (for which I couldn't find any definition)?Odd. Gold and other precious medals are measured today using the Troy measurements so 1 ton of gold actually weighs less than 1 ton of feathers. A Troy pound is 0.8229 of an Avoirdupois pound or 0.7465 of a Metric Pound.
Troy weight - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Or, to put it differently, how many troy pounds would be in your troy ton?
I think the missions refer to them as units and they take up one cargo rack space and weigh one ton. Think of the terms as equal in the game - there are no conversions necessary.
Sometimes you can run a mission in a couple of runs part delivering... So 16 units capacity in ship but 20 Units to deliver, take 16, drop them off at destination station, fly back, collect the remaining four, take them to destination and complete/collect reward.
On missions, take careful note of the warnings about ships being sent after you and the recommended minimum rank for the mission (as well as fines for not completing the misson). This is another case where you can easiy bite off more than you can chew!..
The number represented when obtaining anything are basically all in tons. Cargo bins are installed based on the number of tons one wants to haul. An 8 ton cargo bin can haul up to 8 tons of anything. There are two types of cargo bins, one which allows one to haul something corrosive and one that doesn't allow for something corrosive.
The hauling of cargo has been changed recently, previously, one couldn't accept a mission without having sufficient cargo space to fit the entire amount offered in the mission. If a mission had 10 tons for example and one only had a 8 ton cargo bin. They couldn't accept the mission. Today one must have at least one even the smallest to accept any mission hauling cargo. The difference is, if you accept a mission in which you can't haul the total all at once, you'll have to make more than one trip. Thus making cargo missions that would normally be for wings, available for solo pilots also. A wing of 4 each with an 8 ton cargo bin can haul 32 tons. A solo player with an 8 ton cargo bin will have to make 4 trips.
FYI: If one has cargo on board a ship they and want to switch ships. The ship they want to switch to must have cargo bins already in place to haul the entire amount from the ship they want to trade from. Some ships come with cargo bins already installed, some don't. And those that do, may not have sufficient bins to haul what one has on board their cuttent ship. Causing one not to be able to exchange one ship for another.
yea back in the days when men were real men and small furry creatures from alpha centauri were real small furry creatures from alpha centauri
P.S don't forget your towel on the 25th of may (or any day come to think of it!)
avoid the ones made from illegal in some systems synthetic fabrics as cotton is the weapon of choice imo
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Correct, builders measurements a tone of sand/gravel comes in a cubic meter bag...
Traveller (RPG) used Hydrogen instead of water, this gave a volume of 14 cu meters later revised to 13.5 cu meters per ton 1.5x1.5x6 that would lead to very much larger canisters than those we see in Elite.
Odd. Gold and other precious medals are measured today using the Troy measurements so 1 ton of gold actually weighs less than 1 ton of feathers. A Troy pound is 0.8229 of an Avoirdupois pound or 0.7465 of a Metric Pound.
Troy weight - Wikipedia
Remember we are talking mass here not weight. Whether ED uses a short ton, a long ton or a metric ton. I don't know.
hardlyyes
1 wine is 1 ton correct (more than enough!
It is not about space it is about weight. The more weight you have the more fuel you need for a hyperspace jump or even flying around. And the cargo containers are standardized to be able to fit one ton of any commodity. So a container with a ton of gold needs the same space as a container with one ton of feathers.
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indeed hardly anybody goes to church let alone school to prey at mass anymoreMass, mass, mass!
What is taught in schools nowadays?
used to get free milk after too!all that pent up energy can't be good for the soul weather squared away in a vacuum or not"!
still what church mass has to do with hoover vaccum cleaners is anybodys guess
e =mc2 never really made sense to me ,nowaydays its all dyson spheres and wot not anyhoot
they all suck if you ask me
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indeed hardly anybody goes to church let alone school to prey at mass anymore
Well, nowadays you can get into a lot of trouble if you prey at mass, let alone schools.
