Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Go the other way. When an item is undamaged and of a type (not a ship, etc) that can always be repackaged without consequences, it repackages any time it's placed in an item hangar. Hides most of the hassle (undamaged items can just be sold, stacked, etc) and keeps as much stuff as possible in the server-efficient state.

Packaged item storage isn't about improving response times for the average player but for the server as a whole. Average player will have 1- several thousand of each item depending on what it is. Server side there are gazillions of items. Imagine if we suddenly had to store the details of each piece of ammunition instead of a reference to the standard object?

In answer to you 'gas' question here in the UK it's miles per gallon. And we use petrol and diesel, occasionally LPG and more rarely Kilowatt hours :D

Imagine the corresponding opposite change; if it became necessary to unpack modules before fitting them, rather than the situation at present where that is done automatically. To unpack drones before launching them.

That would be maddening.

There's a like amount of irritation to be saved if modules go into the state where they can be sold and stacked automatically.

Except that as you have to unpack modules to use them, the game simply does it for you when you attempt to fit them.

You MUST unpack to fit, so there's no reason not for the game to automatically unpack and fit when you tell it to fit a mod.

But you DON'T have to have the modules in your hangar in any particular state. For those who want their modules packed, it's a simple Ctrl+A -> repack away.

I prefer having the mods in my hangar in both states. It easily shows me wha mods I placed in there since the last repack cycle.

Say I'm shuffling fits around on an apoc, looking for say... oh megapulses. Now I just removed a rach of tachs, dumping them in my hangar, but didn't like the pulses, so I look back to hangar for tachs.

There's 8 unpacked, unstacked tacks staring me in the face, easy to pick out of a hangar. Tada, convenience!

There are also times when moving mixed cargo to several locations that I will simply keep all the mods going to one place unpacked, and all the mods going somewhere else packed, without ******* around with containers.

Now the proposed auto repack is a fine idea I guess, but it needs to be an optional opt in, not an enforced absolute.

That hadn't occurred to me (I use containers extensively, so anything in the main item hangar is in transit), but it's a good point.