Will we be seeing some different types of container?

[Defacto]

The unit of trade is not the ton but the cannister. So you have 1 cannister of crop harvesters and 1 cannister of slaves etc.

Admittedly for some of the items that sound as if they could be quite large it makes you think you couldn't even fit one of them in there but that's what we have. Perhaps a crop harvester in the future is not like the hulking things we have now.

One canister does weigh exactly one tonne. My guess is that it simplifies the hyperspace route plotting, or something like that (if you don't take the exact mass in account you risk getting misjumps or something).

And for crop harvesters... maybe all machinery in 3300 is IKEA-style

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[Adam Lusardi]

Even if we did I'm not sure what gameplay purpose it would have. Now if it went along the lines of the larger tradeable goods, such as Crop Harvesters, only being able to fit into a larger container that was twice or four times the size of a regular one, meaning that only the larger ships could carry it then it might make sense.

I think your idea of large crop harvesters is based on 1980s knowledge in 3400 these could be as simple as robot arms fitted to an existing track.

 

[Memnoch]

I mentioned this in another post. My dad was a parts manager at Ford so I am well aware of how large combine harvesters are, especially modern ones i.e they weigh more than 1 ton.

But as you say, future versions could be robotic and perhaps smaller. And we don't even know what crops they are harvesting either. Perhaps some super plant that is small and yet yields wheat sized crops?

As far as analysing parts of the game to see if they make sense when compared to what we know now I think I can accept any kind of handwavium explanation in this regard.

 

[Adam Lusardi]

Yes I was thinking in the 80's when I have first seen the American huge machines and the UK ones still had to fit between gate posts. :smilie:

 

[Urias]

I think i would be REALLY weird when we get the boarding expansion and fight all the time between 1 tonne cannisters instead of whole big machines when we board a large ship loaded with those things.

And as far as i know they want to use bigger cannisters (mining station).