Having just purchased a Keelback last night and then spending a couple of hours in Hazardous and High Resource Extraction Zones where I was doing bounty-hunting in my tiny fighter, there were many instances where I was still chasing around after other Wanted ships, but I also wanted to gather the cargo left behind when I destroyed some other ship. I think it would be nice to add a command to the co-pilot menu to collect a targeted piece of floating debris.
The way I see it working (so as to not be abused) is that you must target the cargo (one piece at a time) and then give the command to your co-pilot. At that point you can deselect the cargo and your co-pilot will continue on to collect it on their own. If you select another piece of cargo and give the command again before they've finished with the first one they would abandon the first one and move to the second. If your cargo was full or your cargo hatch powered down then the co-pilot would report back that they cannot comply and would return to their previous mode (like follow, etc.). After a piece of cargo is collected the co-pilot would report to you with something like "cargo collected" and then return to their previous mode. If you have a collector limpet controller on board your ship the co-pilot would not be capable of using it and would always manually fly over and collect the cargo using the cargo hatch.
You wouldn't be able to gain anything by way of mining and using this as it would take your mining ship away from the task of shooting the mining laser and because you aren't onboard your ship you couldn't man any refinery (if you had one).
Thoughts?
The way I see it working (so as to not be abused) is that you must target the cargo (one piece at a time) and then give the command to your co-pilot. At that point you can deselect the cargo and your co-pilot will continue on to collect it on their own. If you select another piece of cargo and give the command again before they've finished with the first one they would abandon the first one and move to the second. If your cargo was full or your cargo hatch powered down then the co-pilot would report back that they cannot comply and would return to their previous mode (like follow, etc.). After a piece of cargo is collected the co-pilot would report to you with something like "cargo collected" and then return to their previous mode. If you have a collector limpet controller on board your ship the co-pilot would not be capable of using it and would always manually fly over and collect the cargo using the cargo hatch.
You wouldn't be able to gain anything by way of mining and using this as it would take your mining ship away from the task of shooting the mining laser and because you aren't onboard your ship you couldn't man any refinery (if you had one).
Thoughts?