Inventory Management

[GOForce3]

Inventory management needs a lot of work.  The biggest issue is with things missing in my ship's inventory.  I bought about 100 High Capacity Lenses from a factory (over $400,000, btw), and when I went I was looking in my ship's inventory, they were nowhere to be found.  I went back and bought some more HCLs, and again, completely missing from my inventory.  They're neither in the list nor the small graph on top.  I hope I didn't throw that money away, that was a lot of $$!!

 

Secondly, I noticed that I can't transfer everything in my cargo holds between ships.  When I go into the menu to change items and not everything that's in my cargo holds are listed.  Not sure if there's limitations on what can be transferred or not, or if that's just a bug.  The workaround that I use is that if I can see the items in the cargo list in the ship menu (see 3rd item), you can dump the cargo, quickly move out of the way, and get into the other ship and have it suck up the cargo.

 

Thirdly, in the ship's cargo menu, this list doesn't show everything there.  I think there's some page navigation controls missing.  However the small graph on the top does show the items that aren't displayed in the list.  But you can't dump cargo that's not on the list.

 

Fourthly, transferring cargo between ships using the transfer crew/cargo menu is tedious if you're transferring a lot of items.  You can only transfer one thing at a time, which leads to a lot of mouse clicks and time.  I've used the workaround in #2 to help with this too, if I the items are listed in the ship's cargo menu.

 

I'd welcome any workaround that any of you have thought of.  So far, the biggest problem are the 1st two that I listed.  The 3rd & 4th are not too bad, just a little annoying.

[SageThe13th]

I have run into lot of these problems as well.  Especially the disappearing items.

[player_0005327]

Yes, I have these problems too. The scrollbar doesn't seem to be functioning in the Transfer Cargo window. I've found that your cargo is still there, just not listed. To access it you need to get your first cargo out of the way. If you look at the top bar that represents your entire cargo hold, with empty space on the right, it shows your empty space when you mouseover it. The number goes down as you pick up cargo beyond the first nine or ten kinds, and once it's full you can't pick up any more, so the bug doesn't affect your actual cargo capacity, just the interaction menu.

 

The one click per transfer thing is real nasty though. I generally dump cargo near stations to give it to them, and you can dump cargo from the stations and pick it up with your ship to get it back.

 

Either UI buttons for more cargo transferred at a time, or even Shift+click 10 at a time, Shift+Alt+click for 100 at a time. Ctrl+Shift+Alt+click for 1000? ;D

Another solution could be an amount field you enter a number into, like how you buy or sell things.

[GOForce3]

Really, all that needs to happen is add a scroll bar to the cargo menu and also the cargo transfer menu.  I went to a station that was buying HCLs, and it showed that I have them, so I didn't lose them, just can't see them.  That's sort of a relief.  The major problem is when I go to craft the weapons that require that ingredient.  As far as I know, you need to have that item in the ship that's docked to the turret factory, correct?  If that's the case, and there's no way to transfer the cargo from my transport ship to my main ship, then that's the dilemma lies.  I can try transferring all my cargo to the transport ship, if it'll let me and dock to the turret factory with it instead.  I'll have to try that.

 

One cool thing that would make it much easier to manage cargo is if you're dealing with stations or merchants, you can utilize the cargo of any ship that's within 1km of your ship.  That way all you have to do is have your cargo ship escort your main ship to the depot and you won't have to hop ships or shuffle cargo around.  That'll be cool, right?  I really don't want my main ship to have lots of cargo space because that'll make it big and sluggish.