Cargo pick up

[saith70]

When you destroy a transport and the cargo blows up is it supposed to take a min or so to be able to pick up that cargo?

 

Stolen cargo has the same delay.

 

Multiplayer private server for me and my roomie.

 

If so, is there a way to change this behavior?

 

Edit: So I deleted a cargo bay by accident and my cargo exploded out. Then I had to wait 30 second to a min for me to be allowed to pick it back up. This makes no sense...

[Treexter]

The delay makes sense when you intended to not pick up cargo which was just dumped.

 

For example you already full with low price items and you found a high priced cargo. You want to drop something to pick new up.

[saith70]

It makes no sense that I can't pick up salvaged cargo right away or my own cargo right away, but yet I can pick up stolen cargo instantly.

 

No sense what so ever.

[WSY]

I agree, it is an unnecessary delay, and after the delay you have very little time before it then de-spawns.

 

Making it it 10 to 20 seconds I can understand, but any longer feels unnecessary.

[Kamo]

That, and there also needs to be "Pick up dumped cargo" and "Pick up dumped and stolen cargo" options, to manually alleviate the delay.

Alternatively, the delay could be based on something like 10-odd seconds plus a value depending on thrust and velocity, so a huge and slow cargo ship could dump cargo and have the time to go away in 40 secs, while a faster ship would have less delay and could get it back only 15 secs later.

Another alternative, the dumped flag being dropped after the dumper going away one kilometer from the cargo. But this very simple idea has probably already been considered and refused, probably for performance/server reasons (each cargo unit counting as an object, it may be too much to calculate distance to dumper coordinates for each of them).

 

Another big problem is that the cargo despawn time is way too small (must be 80 or 90 seconds), giving too much of a limited window to get back dumped cargo before it disappears :( ! It needs to be at least 300 (5 mn) plus the dumping delay.

[Uthael]

When you get the warning "You can't pick it up because it's stolen" or "dropped by you", there should be a button that says "Override for the next minute".