Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Pretty simple desire, more sizes of the general freight containers (which can't be anchored and don't have security features). Right now, we only have (1) size, the 120k m3 version.

These are very useful for doing logistics work where you need to move items XYZ to location A and items ABC to location B and you don't want to or can't setup a courier contract. Because they don't have audit logs, they can be repackaged easily.

Capacity sizes: Adds one at the upper end. Also adds a bunch of smaller ones for logistics work where you need finer grained sizes. The smaller ones would be useful for the T1 industrials where you only have 5-25k m3 of cargo space. The small & medium sizes are aimed more at orcas with their 40-80k m3 bays, while the large to XXL are for JFs/freighters.

- XXS: 50 m3
- Extra-Small: 1,000 m3
- Small: 4,000 m3
- Medium: 10,000 m3
- Large: 40,000 m3
- Extra-Large: 120,000 m3
- XXL: 250,000 m3

Packed size: Right now, the packed size of a general freight container is the same as the unpacked size. The minerals involved in reprocessing the General Freight Container are about 25.1 m3 in size. In order to prevent them being used for mineral compression, the existing 120k m3 container should thus be no smaller then 500 m3 when repackaged (which is 1/240th).

I envision these to be like the modern containers that you see on flatbeds and container ships, except that you can fold them down to about 1/10th to 1/100th their size. So the XXS container could be repackaged to only take up 5 m3 (1/10th) instead of 50 m3 for times when you don't need it for logistics. The XXL container size would be most efficient when packed and would compress down to 1/100th the size (2500 m3). The rest would be in the 1/20-1/80 range.

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