If your poor ship just suffered irradiation damage

[grävling]

....maybe eating those luxury food provisions in the cargo hold is a bad idea? Cannot imagine the crop harvesters are happy with the experience, either ...

[fallen]

Lol, agreed -- ... but the gravs on the far side will never know. Just don't mention it to them

We won't be doing any kind of cargo degradation due to combat.

[grävling]

Okay then.

[athios]

Load up on RadX and RadAway before leaving port!

[Cory Trese]

Your cargo is shielded by the Cargo hold.

If it takes 60% damage, all your cargo is destroyed.

That rule isn't implemented yet.

[Alex Fury]

Perhaps an 'armored cargo hold' upgrade or such?
Or perhaps a modular or compartmentalized one? That way perhaps at 50%, you start losing cargo, but it's then percentage based after that?
ie: at 50% damage, you still have 100% cargo..
But you lose 2% cargo each past?
Could be tricky for maths. Or perhaps a different way, depending on just how many different types of cargo, it splits it up.
So, if you carry a full load of one type, you could lose all of it at 50-60%..
But, if you have 50 cargo total, 10 each of 5 different things.. you only lose one 'type' of cargo every next 10% (60%, 70%, 80%, etc)

Again, could be some maths/coding issues, but give someone a reason to not just go all-in on one type of cargo all the time.

Another possibility, a separate armored-cargo bit. (perhaps smuggler hold)
So that you can have 10 (or more depending on ship) specially protected cargo. that you can choose what goes in there?

[Cory Trese]

Feb 27, 2017 13:18:35 GMT -5 Alex Fury said:

Perhaps an 'armored cargo hold' upgrade or such?
Or perhaps a modular or compartmentalized one? That way perhaps at 50%, you start losing cargo, but it's then percentage based after that?
ie: at 50% damage, you still have 100% cargo..
But you lose 2% cargo each past?
Could be tricky for maths. Or perhaps a different way, depending on just how many different types of cargo, it splits it up.
So, if you carry a full load of one type, you could lose all of it at 50-60%..
But, if you have 50 cargo total, 10 each of 5 different things.. you only lose one 'type' of cargo every next 10% (60%, 70%, 80%, etc)

Again, could be some maths/coding issues, but give someone a reason to not just go all-in on one type of cargo all the time.

Another possibility, a separate armored-cargo bit. (perhaps smuggler hold)
So that you can have 10 (or more depending on ship) specially protected cargo. that you can choose what goes in there?

No, I think we'll be keeping it very easy for the player to understand.

Thanks for the suggestions, but I just don't see any of that being feasible for the average player.

I am certain I can convince you our implementation is the best one by the end of the alpha.

Thanks for playing!