The ideal limpet tweak would be a change that meant limpets were left on the ship in the cargo racks, so when CMDR's change ship, limpets stay on the ship they just vacated awaiting their return to that ship. Such a change would be aimed at preventing the need to sell off limpets before changing ship, then when returning to that ship meaning to replace them with new ones from the advanced maintenance screen, often to discover when going to use them, that you havent remembered to rebuy the limpets. I'm pretty sure there is a meme of this "forgot the $@&#ing limpets, again!" somewhere on the internet. But in my four years of playing elite, Fdev havent made this happen so I'm guessing its an intentional omission. But I still want to avoid having to load/unload limpets every time I change ship, so, I've got a request...
Can we get a new module, a limpet rack, essentially another variant of cargo rack, but special in that it only accepts limpets not any old cargo canister?
As it only stores limpets, it can keep them on the ship when the CMDR transfers to another ship. It inherently has pros and cons, for a mining outfit most of the cargo space is initially filled with limpets and later filled with mined minerals, as the limpets do thier thing, the limpet rack wouldn't be optimal for this use case. It also presents yet another module to squeeze into a loadout, to use a limpet rack you have to let something else go, cargo / hrp / scb / fuel scoop / interdictor / etc... While it wouldn't make mining any easier and have some drawbacks, principally being ONLY able to store limpets, it would however be beneficial to multi role ships.
Yes, its yet another module, but think of it as a "set it and forget it" way of ensuring your ship always has at least the capacity of this rack sized compliment of limpets permanantly onboard that gets restocked by the restock all button at station services. To me thats a QOL update that is balanced, we take the pain of another module bay being eaten up, but we gain the ability to always have limpets on hand in certain ships and not having to unload/reload them every time we change ships.
Can we get a new module, a limpet rack, essentially another variant of cargo rack, but special in that it only accepts limpets not any old cargo canister?
As it only stores limpets, it can keep them on the ship when the CMDR transfers to another ship. It inherently has pros and cons, for a mining outfit most of the cargo space is initially filled with limpets and later filled with mined minerals, as the limpets do thier thing, the limpet rack wouldn't be optimal for this use case. It also presents yet another module to squeeze into a loadout, to use a limpet rack you have to let something else go, cargo / hrp / scb / fuel scoop / interdictor / etc... While it wouldn't make mining any easier and have some drawbacks, principally being ONLY able to store limpets, it would however be beneficial to multi role ships.
Yes, its yet another module, but think of it as a "set it and forget it" way of ensuring your ship always has at least the capacity of this rack sized compliment of limpets permanantly onboard that gets restocked by the restock all button at station services. To me thats a QOL update that is balanced, we take the pain of another module bay being eaten up, but we gain the ability to always have limpets on hand in certain ships and not having to unload/reload them every time we change ships.
