Good morning everyone. I've been lurking on these forums for a while, reading up on the gossip and ideas floating around on how it seems certain types of ships that are specialized aren't really that good at their jobs. For example, the Type 9 gets out-cargo'd by all the other ships in it's weight class currently. I've been hearing lots of different ideas, like adding specialty 'cargo' only racks to the ships and other things so that cargo ships become more useful, but I've been thinking about something different. On the Reddit there was an arguement about the Type 9 being so much heavier than the Anaconda despite being a similar size and the question of where all the extra mass is came up.
Thinking about how cargo is handled currently we don't just worry about it's weight, like we do in Elite now, but also how much space it takes up. I mean, looking at a ton of gold compared to a ton of animal meat. Gold is really heavy per volume, and a ton of it wouldn't take up nearly as much space as a ton of beef.
So I'm wondering if maybe the way cargo is handled should be switched up a little. Make it so not only the weight is a factor (which would affect things like thruster speed and jump range) but also the volume. The Anaconda may have enough power to move some 200 tons, but maybe not enough space to do so depending on the cargo (as it is a multi-purpose ship it would have designated space for rooms for the employees and other things needed for a jack of all trades), which would give a ship with a large cargo bay more opportunities for bulk shipments. I'd guess something is already being calculated since the mass of the ship and it's cargo is already taken into account for figuring out jump distances with the navigation computer, so hopefully such a change isn't too drastic from what we are already familiar with.
What do you all think? The boys and girls over at Frontier, any reasoning why this may not work quite so well?
Thinking about how cargo is handled currently we don't just worry about it's weight, like we do in Elite now, but also how much space it takes up. I mean, looking at a ton of gold compared to a ton of animal meat. Gold is really heavy per volume, and a ton of it wouldn't take up nearly as much space as a ton of beef.
So I'm wondering if maybe the way cargo is handled should be switched up a little. Make it so not only the weight is a factor (which would affect things like thruster speed and jump range) but also the volume. The Anaconda may have enough power to move some 200 tons, but maybe not enough space to do so depending on the cargo (as it is a multi-purpose ship it would have designated space for rooms for the employees and other things needed for a jack of all trades), which would give a ship with a large cargo bay more opportunities for bulk shipments. I'd guess something is already being calculated since the mass of the ship and it's cargo is already taken into account for figuring out jump distances with the navigation computer, so hopefully such a change isn't too drastic from what we are already familiar with.
What do you all think? The boys and girls over at Frontier, any reasoning why this may not work quite so well?
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