Engineers Inventory space not needed: Station Bank is though

xXVileXx

xXVileXx
I have seen so many complaints pertaining to materials needed for the eng's, mainly about cargo space and certain ships ie: small fighters. How to transport the needed materials to the eng in the said ship without cargo space. Only solution currently is to go with a different ship carrying the materials, get the modded weapon, item, you want then returning to the base hub where your desired ship is stored, sell the item and switch ships (all the while crossing your fingers something doesn't happen, dc, or whatever) and purchasing the modded item back. Phew talk about a gamble, that's worse than the roulette to get the item in the first place.

A complex yet simple fix for this is a "bank at the major hub's in each section", not every outpost will have one. You go to bank deposit said materials, including data, ( any item needed for eng upgrades )switch ships and venture to said eng. Once arriving just like a credit card, said eng can access your bank acct, seeing you have the materials, data etc to upgrade desired item.

With this system in place you can go to the eng with any ship you want to upgrade whether you have open cargo space, or any cargo space at all, and upgrade your ship.


This solves two specific problems currently ingame, one the no cargo space, but want to upgrade ship problem, and two traveling to the eng with a cargo hold full of mats, items, anything needed for eng upgrades in a less than fitting fighting ship against the strong Ai pirates.


Now with that said, this could be abused: Taking on a mission to transport contraband to another station, depositing items into bank making jump to location, hitting bank removing items and completing mission. Hence only items for the engineers could be stored in the bank!
 

xXVileXx

xXVileXx
That would help Shadow, but doesn't solve the problem, case in point:
I have an A grade fitted Vulture, it is slam packed strictly a local fighter, pwr management is absolutely mandatory I even have to turn off one SB to fight. There is no way I can transport any item to the eng to upgrade her, hence I have to go in my cobra.
Plus, to gather the required items or to visit the eng its a 30 Ly hop, took 91 jumps in my cobra kitted out to the max for discovery (no shields, nothing, built for speed and distance, in Kremainn system to either of the eng's) to get to Danielle's progress for the meta alloys, now its 91 to get to the eng. Can you think how many jumps that would be on my kitted vulture, LOL that I am not looking forward to.
 

Shadowdancer

Shadowdancer

guriek

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yeah, they mentioned somewhere, can't find it now, that module storage is coming. but that does not fix cargo storage between ships. Being able to buy bank space (cargo/module) storage in stations would be awesome.
 

CMDR CPT. Boris

CMDR CPT. Boris
Module storage/depot is necessary in the future. Today when your ship is getting destroyed you lose the cargo but not the materials which is easier but does not make much sense.
In order to "save" materials from destruction you will have to go to your favorite starport and store them. If you get destroyed all materials in your ship should be destroyed. Stored materials are safe from destruction since they are waiting in the starport.

sorry if the threat was not exactly about that
 
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