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Tridents and cargo

Jul 25, 2014 Death Fluffy link
Allow trident owners to move cargo between the trident and any ship stored on it. Limit it so that players moving cargo cannot use this to exceed capacity limits.

This is a low priority request.
Jul 25, 2014 meridian link
Please elaborate on how moving cargo could be used to exceed capacity limits because I'm failing to envision such a scenario.

For transfer of cargo from the trident to a docked ship, it would be no different than the trident jetting the cargo, the ship undocking to grab the cargo and re-docking again.

For transfer of cargo from a docked ship to the trident, the ship will already be occupying space in the trident cargo bay at the time of the transfer.

Unless you are talking about transfer of cargo from one ship docked in a trident directly to another ship docked in the trident?
Jul 25, 2014 Death Fluffy link
We can already 'overload' tridents because of the requirement that an owner be allowed to dock. What I mean is, if I am in an already full trident, I should not be able to unload cargo from a stored ship into the trident. If I am in an overloaded trident, then by moving items from the trident to the stored ship, should decrease the storage on the trident until the balance falls below 800 cu. So if I'm flying with my 875 capacity dent and move 50 cu into my behemoth, I should not then still be able to add another 50 cu to the tridents cargo.

At this point, I don't support ship to ship transfers, only between trident and stored ship. If ships can be repaired and reloaded, then it makes sense that station like transfer of cargo should be possible.

Again, this is not a high priority imo. Just something that would be nice.
Jul 26, 2014 bladerus link
Tridents are already treated as stations in vo. Differentiation between various station types ("real", dent, player owned) could be possibe some way. If you can load cargo into a ship at a station, it could be possible within a dent too. Definitely a simple math condition should prevent to unload more things into the dent cargospace than the amount of empty space.