Jettison water option

[drudj]

I'd like to be able to vent water in to space. Main reason is to make room for more records.

[sgtcookie]

While not strictly water, the ability to jettison cargo generally would be useful.

[slayernz]

Definitely jettisoning restricted goods at time of encounter would be an awesome special ability of smugglers/spies. Han Solo did it - so it must be possible

[12coryt]

Haha, that's a good idea! Never thought of it myself.
But than again, if you jettisoned something that was important, how would you ever find it again?

[Fenikso]

I want "Jettison [insert crew member or honored guest name here]" option for my pirate . Just kidding. Who could be that evil to throw people out of the airlock?

[taatuu25]

Would be useful. Right now the only way to get rid of useless gargo in deep space is to attack a ship and then unload the gargo there.

[slayernz]

12coryt - once you throw something out an airlock - it's pretty much goneburgers. Once I sent a couple of crew out to recover something I threw out the airlock. One day I'll probably go back and see how they are getting on. At least in space decomposition is negligible - so nobody will have to smell you later.

[Cory Trese]

You can use the "Void" button to eject passengers out of the airlock.

I found this request on the forum some time ago. I will add the "eject cargo" option to the list.

Do you guys have any suggestions on where to squeeze the additional features into the interface?

Maybe add a new "Jettison" button to the "Resource Report" screen? that was the cargo page stays simple?

[Fenikso]

Aug 22, 2011 0:55:31 GMT -5 Cory Trese said:

You can use the "Void" button to eject passengers out of the airlock.

Sweet! I did not think about it. Now I can be evil once again!

Aug 22, 2011 0:55:31 GMT -5 Cory Trese said:

Maybe add a new "Jettison" button to the "Resource Report" screen? that was the cargo page stays simple?

I think that when you click something under Resource Report, there could be slider with jettison button for that resource.

[slayernz]

Yeah the Resource Report screen is the ideal place for providing a "purge" option.
IE:
Status --> Cargo --> [Glarp]
where "Glarp" = a particular cargo unit, eg Weapons, Clothes, etc

When you go into the Glarp screen, you always get a descriptor of Glarp, as well as a list of recent prices.

My recommendation would be straight above the Glarp description, there should be the familiar slider bar where you can dump any amount of units out into space.

Left side of slider bar should have descriptor: "Dump"
Right side of slider bar should have descriptor "Hold"

Buttons below the slider bar should be described as "Eject to Space" and "Cancel".

[Cory Trese]

This makes sense. Looks like it will take a bit of re-factoring for the trade system to allow "null end point trades" where there isn't a ship or a dock on the other end, but I have added it to the list.

[taatuu25]

@cory BTW, how long is "the list"?

[Cory Trese]

over 1200 items at this time

[blackgauntlet]

Sept 8, 2011 9:53:03 GMT -5 Cory Trese said:

over 1200 items at this time

I dun envy you. ;D

[taatuu25]

Sept 8, 2011 9:53:03 GMT -5 Cory Trese said:

over 1200 items and counting.

;D