While building a ship with my friend Legion, he decided it would be a great idea to hop in the salvage computer to mine out a nearby asteroid while I finished work on the hull. During that time I took note of how everything he mined ended up in my inventory. So we did a bit of thinking and thought it would be pretty cool if everything you mined up was automatically tossed into it's own storage. I'm thinking of something simple for now, such as being able to connect Plex Storage to the Salvage Computer similar to how you connect the cannons. When something is mined, the system would first check all connected boxes for a stack of that item then add the harvested item to it's matching stack. If no stack is found, the system would look for a box with an empty slot then toss the item into the first box with an open slot that it finds. If the box is full the system would move on to the next box, continuing it's check until the conditions are met to deposit the item. To avoid massive strain on servers and insane amounts of lag, I'm thinking a max limit of 10 storage boxes per computer would be more than enough for mining out a few stations and asteroids before having to unload.
I consider this a minor feature that would make the game a bit more enjoyable since you wouldn't have to constantly keep emptying your personal inventory every few minutes for fear of harvesting something rare only to have it deleted due to your full inventory.
I consider this a minor feature that would make the game a bit more enjoyable since you wouldn't have to constantly keep emptying your personal inventory every few minutes for fear of harvesting something rare only to have it deleted due to your full inventory.
