(Mod Request) Is anyone working on some way of transferring Cargo?

[Akeela]

I have always played the space pirate in X games.

Sadly, Rebirth doesn't seem to make this very enjoyable since half of your ship captures are little more than paperweights that you have to simply sell at a shipyard, destroying tons of valuable cargo in the process.

I really want to see a way to transfer cargo from these engine destroyed floating wrecks to my eagerly awaiting pirate vessels who would then speed off to sell the booty.

Is it possible to mod in such functionality? Either through direct ship to ship transfers using cargo lifters... or possibly even an eject cargo command I can give to the incapacitated ship so that I can at least retrieve it from space with some kind of drone?

I know you can get freighters to eject cargo by hacking them, so maybe the code is already there somehow and just needs a command for an owned ship to be able to eject its cargo hold into space.

Thanks for any willing to take up this challenge.

[KRM398]

I've been thinking the same thing and working with a few others for more info. It seems surface miner drones can pick up floating objects, not cargo drones..why? Its Ego thats why..lol. OK and when a ship gets blown to bits..either yours or others, then the cargo is left floating...get my drift? The way the game is now boarding isn't worth it if cargo is what your after. If what people told me is true, I haven't tried it yet, then killing them is better for cargo pirating, and a freighter with surface miner drones for pickup. I planned to try this myself but I messed up on a mod and had to restart.

[Palanor]

That would be awesome to be able to transfer cargo between 2 ships

[Akeela]

In the previous games, I used the transporter device to "beam" cargo off captured ships. This way I at least got the cargo if they were too crippled to make it to a dock.

Maybe a transporter mod, might work as well then.

[KRM398]

If you could get that to work, then its a great idea. I was thinking it might not suit the back ground here, since everything is about drones, even fighters are all but extinct because of them.

[balogt]

Drones SUCK..period. i want to fly my fighter, feel the ship handle, risk my life in an engagement..feel the rush.

pushing a button is rather boring.

just my 2 cents