With the advent of 2.1 this has now become critical.
Many of the materials for Engineer modifications are actual cargo tonnage, not a part of the "materials" storage, they require actual cargo capacity to store and transport.
The problem I face, and I am sure MANY more people, is that the ability to permanently store these goods in our cargo hold is totally impractical. My ship of choice is the Fer-de-Lance. I spend most of my time in it, I prefer combat to any other pursuit, but right now at this moment I cannot even take it out of storage and use it because the existing system requires my cargo be transferred to the active vessel. It is utterly impossible for me to even mount the required cargo capacity on my FdL without stripping it of ALL combat survivability, ie. Shield Generator and Shield Cell Bank. God alone knows what the situation must be for those who prefer fighters like the Viper or Vulture.
Never before has this been more absolutely required.
There simply MUST be the ability to rent a station based storage capacity for the accumulation of these materials outwith the cargo capacity of the active ship, because by design some ships DO NOT have a practical cargo-carrying ability, that's not what they are for.
My proposition is that space can be rented at any large starport, based on tonnage capacity and length of time. For example, I could rent 100T of capacity for a year for 1 million credits, or whatever.
Right now, where I live, I can go to the harbour and rent a cargo container rated for 30T, for a year, for a couple hundred pounds. You can't tell me that in the 31st millennium no-one is selling cargo capacity on a large starport facility.
Many of the materials for Engineer modifications are actual cargo tonnage, not a part of the "materials" storage, they require actual cargo capacity to store and transport.
The problem I face, and I am sure MANY more people, is that the ability to permanently store these goods in our cargo hold is totally impractical. My ship of choice is the Fer-de-Lance. I spend most of my time in it, I prefer combat to any other pursuit, but right now at this moment I cannot even take it out of storage and use it because the existing system requires my cargo be transferred to the active vessel. It is utterly impossible for me to even mount the required cargo capacity on my FdL without stripping it of ALL combat survivability, ie. Shield Generator and Shield Cell Bank. God alone knows what the situation must be for those who prefer fighters like the Viper or Vulture.
Never before has this been more absolutely required.
There simply MUST be the ability to rent a station based storage capacity for the accumulation of these materials outwith the cargo capacity of the active ship, because by design some ships DO NOT have a practical cargo-carrying ability, that's not what they are for.
My proposition is that space can be rented at any large starport, based on tonnage capacity and length of time. For example, I could rent 100T of capacity for a year for 1 million credits, or whatever.
Right now, where I live, I can go to the harbour and rent a cargo container rated for 30T, for a year, for a couple hundred pounds. You can't tell me that in the 31st millennium no-one is selling cargo capacity on a large starport facility.
