The pain only if you were the hauler, I loved ganking freighters runs

At least, it brought some action elsewhere than on a stupid pos or station.

None should be safe on beta islands. Haulers are weak, so organize an escort, i bet some mercs would be happy to provide one. Would be another occasion for some pew pew.

imho, the hauler cargo is just fine
just certain raws ores or the plant stuff is way to big in volume. (id rather say the numbers of ore you need for a single comodity is to high)

you can transport several assault bots or mechs in a single sequer - so after refining and production the capacity of the haulers is just fine.

adjusted refining rates could be compensated by adjusted "ammount per cycle" base, if you want to rebalance the hauling without adding another digit to ore size (+quality - quantity)

After the changes everyone is happier. The way they did it - decreased the volume and not increased the capacity - was a smart way to do it and I like it.

Now let's wait for destroyer class haulers

You want a Millennium Falcon?

I don't remember who it was in irc. But there was an idea for a hauler bot that had a module that was a container or a container that could snap on in the equip tool.

Container: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermodal_container

Different size of containers that had X mass and X volume of U.

The bot would take existing advanced robotics, but the containers would require a new extension. Each level increases the container size you can handle.

This hauler bot would look like a skelton frame without the container.

This is a helicopter that can carry a cargo container. Basic idea of the skelton hauler bot (not talking about making a flying bot just using it as an example of the skelton framework).

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ … age640.gif

These containers can be picked up and dropped off in the field.

Of course a cargo expander would be easier, but it would be cool to see something different in game around hauling rather than just a cargo expander.

How do you balance speed and capacity where it makes sense to use anything but the largest one?

Now, with the gap so large, 80-240, there's cleary a time to use either; the lithus is only like 25% slower for 3x the capcity, so anything over 80u is a no brainer to use lithus.

With modules, if you take them on/off, there's a chance that you won't have the size you need, where you need it. If there was a 360U at 50%, it would just be always installed on the lithus, because the small speed hit is offset by always having it when you need it. So the 240U and under modules would go unused, so your basically just changing the Lithus to a 360U hauler with lower top-end speed.

Sure, there's probably a few situational scenerios where you could use a 120 or 240, but the majority of the time your just going to max it out, because bag space is always important.

who, what?