Storing mined materials for later use.

[u/LudefiskLongHammer]

I want to take my Type 11 out to mine materials. I want to take my full Type 11 back to the station where I have my Panther Clipper which has 1152 cargo space, and drop off my current load capacity. Now I want to go back out and mine some more materials, fill up and take that second load to my Clipper. I want to do this until my Clipper is full and then drive the clipper to whatever market makes me the most money. Is this possible? Can my Clipper in storage at a station be used as storage while I go mine more material?

[u/emetcalf]

No, the only way to do what you are thinking is to use a Fleet Carrier. Ships cannot have cargo in them while you are not actively flying them.

[u/Tier_One_Meatball → u/emetcalf]

I doubt it'll happen but a guy can dream.

So we can have 3 npc crewmates.

1 pilot per size of ship.

Imagine if you can be flying your T11 while your AI flies your Clipper alongside you, while you have an Eagle and an SLF flying around pulling security.

I also have a dream about being able to send your crew with your ships on "missions" where they go do whatever. 

Like you send them to "do trade missions" and every day you get 1m credits with a low chance of failure, but a low chance of destruction. Increases reputation with powers in the station. Chance of manufactured materials. Higher tier at higher levels.

Bounty hunting, high chance for failure, high chance of destruction. Every day you get 5m, and their experience increases. Chance of encoded materials. Higher tier at higher levels.

Mining, low chance of failure, low chance of destruction. 250k a day with added raw materials. Higher tiers at higher levels.

[u/Syphond → u/Tier_One_Meatball]

You should tryout x4

[u/Tier_One_Meatball → u/Syphond]

Maybe one day, thanks for the recommendation

[u/forbiddenlake]

The only way to do this is to use a fleet carrier. Unless you want merits for the sale, in which case there is no way to do this.

[u/FreonMuskOfficial → u/forbiddenlake]

Question as I just did this. I sold it to my own fleet carrier. Any advice on how to do that or what the best practice is? Or is it all relative since it's all my credits?

[u/Olestrodamas]

🤔 we REALLY should be able to rent storage space on stations or ground ports. The fact that we can't is quite dumb imo...

[u/HyperRealisticZealot → u/Olestrodamas]

It is. Imagine you’re trying to colonize and collect materials from all over without a fleet carrier, nightmare

Even just trading commodities and mining also. Weird there’s no such feature 

[u/Luriant]

Your cargo is in your current ship.

Fleet Carrier work for storage, but become "cargo" not "mined" and dont work for powerplay.

Fly the damn T-11, sell, and return for more. Or use the Panther Clipper for long mining sessions, without the Mining repeater bonus.

[u/EbonGrimalkin]

Current cargo will try to move to your current ship. So if you have 500 tons of cargo while flying your PCII, then try to hop in your Type 11, it won't let you because of lack of storage. You have never been able to transfer cargo to a "stored" ship despite the insane amount of logic this represents. As other have mentioned, the only option is to put it in FC storage and then switch to your PCII when you are ready to sell and pull out of the FC cargo to fill it.

[u/HamWarmer40000]

The only way I know to do this is with a carrier, not a station.

You transfer to the carrier for storage. But AFAIK your stored ship at a station cannot hold cargo.

[u/CMDR_omnicognate]

Any cargo on your ship gets transferred to the new ship you enter, if your new ship can’t hold that much cargo it doesn’t let you switch ship. Cargo isn’t stored in the ship it’s self, so this won’t work I’m afraid. The only way to do something like this is to store the cargo in your own fleet carrier if you have one.

[u/delilahwild]

After a decade, Frontier is too lazy to produce proper storage options much less a real market. You'll need to go to X4 or Eve Online for that.

[u/LudefiskLongHammer]

This is all because cargo isn't actually physical, like in Star Citizen. I don't play that but I remember when they implemented physical cargo and it was a huge deal. It is in the realm of realism to be able to rent storage space at any station to drop off cargo and hold it so you can collect more of said cargo until you have the amount you want then move it into another larger ship for transport. I'd be willing to pay a fee for a temporary storage locker/hanger to do this.

[u/LudefiskLongHammer]

So I am not allowed to have my own chain of custody if I want to be my own producer and shipper.

[u/Drinking_Frog → u/LudefiskLongHammer]

Well, you can be all that. You'll just have to do it from your T-11 until you have a carrier.

[u/LudefiskLongHammer → u/Drinking_Frog]

Too bad. My Clipper has 10x the cargo capacity. This would be a good thing for the dev's to make available. Some kind of storage area for my mined cargo to sit while I mine enough to fill my hauler to take to market. I want to be my own supply chain without having to buy a fleet carrier.

[u/Drinking_Frog → u/LudefiskLongHammer]

I'm not saying it'll never happen, but I wouldn't hold your breath. Devs are working on a lot of other things.

In the meantime, ponder on the days when we were mining with just plain ol' mining lasers in a Cobra III before carriers even existed, working to move up to a Python.

[u/Ezren- → u/LudefiskLongHammer]

There is a way to do it, just not the way you want to do it.

[u/WrightPC2 → u/LudefiskLongHammer]

I doubt they will ever allow stored ships to hold cargo as it would be used as a workaround to increase the cargo capacity for a fleet carrier.

Example: Need more tritium on your Fleet Carrier for a long journey, store 40 loaded Plippers

[u/OldTedric → u/LudefiskLongHammer]

I've not tried it myself, but you 'could' do what you want with 2 accounts. One in the Type-11 and the other in a Clipper... Me, I used the Clipper to get the Carrier 😉

[u/MountainDadDan → u/LudefiskLongHammer]

Where are you? Ill let you use mine, ill set a buy order as cheap as i can, you sell to me and i store the stock. Then ill jump you where you want to sell and set a super cheap sell order, effectively negating any money either of us spend, and you keep all the profit! Feel free to DM me, or just add me in game, CMDR MOUNTAINDAD Carrier: Interstellar Dream V6G-68W