Some form of warehousing or "banking"

[Acuaricornio]

I keep picking up engineering materials, but I don't need them now so I just sell them. Could be useful later though. If any traction can form behind this, I'd suggest to the developers in an upcoming patch to build in a warehouse or banking system. Could be station-bound, like how ships are stored at a station and you have to go back there to fetch it.

Just my two cents.

 

[Vostik]

Good idea's there. One thing to I think they could implement to keep it sensible is obviously limit the amount of storage you can have, but you also could set a storage fee for having the warehouse in the station or even "insured" each item in storage to deter you from keeping just tons of junk. With this they could also have set a rented time frame for lets say a week, month or w/e. Prior to the end of that cycle you must revisit that warehouse and renew the contract on the storage or something to keep it from deteriorating. I don't know what the masses would say, but I think it is something worth discussing.

 

[aRJay]

I am in favour of this.

 

[rrobes]

What I believe could be done is for the spaceports to sell the equivalent of cargo racks to CMNDRS. They could be of different sizes just like cargo racks for ships and have the ability to store at least the following items:

Commodities
Weapons modules
Materials of all kinds
Data

You could buy 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 ton size and data/mat size same as within ships as an example. I would pay 500,000 CR for a 64T/8 weapons module/600 mat/200 data storage unit. This would really add some flexibility. These modules could be bought and sold just like cargo racks.

For example, I mine with my Python, but I need all weapon modules for armament at times. If I sell off a moded weapon for a mining laser, what happens to that mod, particularly a mod grade 5 that wasn't easy to achieve? AFAIK you lose it. It would certainly add to the Engineer part of it. They could also add mats and material loss if you are destroyed, it would be on the CMNDR to safeguard ship contents. Also, this opens up valuable cargo space for the smaller ships where space is premium. It would also allow you to travel empty and not be subject to cargo interdictions.

"Starship Troopers"
Robert Heinlein

 

[Robert Maynard]

Closed as a necro.