A funny thing happened to me on my way through a Traders Guild gas refinery. The gentleman here sells power-related items, including generators. Now, large generators are far too voluminous for a single survivor to hold on their person with mass & volume on. However, as you can see in this screenshot, I was able to sell him a tier 2 version by using the logistics toolbar. Unfortunately, I was unable to purchase one the same way. The reason I was able to do this is probably because of a quirk that most players find annoying; you sell from your toolbar before your personal inventory. The fact that said toolbar was actually connected to my ship rather than my inventory doesn't seem to have mattered. So say we flipped that around. Instead of newly acquired items going right into our loose inventory, imagine they went first to the toolbar. The logistics toolbar already allows us to use a structure's inventory with standalone autominers and water generators. With this change, it would also let us trade with vendors using our ship's container controllers directly. This would mean trading with NPCs would no longer be limited by the size of your character's backpack. Trading from the logistics toolbar opens up the possibility for vendors to deal in all manner of blocks and bulk items; generators, turrets, armor, stacks of ore and ingots, bulk produce, water, concrete, lumber, anything. Who knows, it might not even be that hard to do.
Trading straight from the container controller makes more sense. Walk aboard the station and select the entity you wish to sell from, and then directly trade from there.
Yeah, but that would take new interfacing at the least. This could work on the cheap. It accidentally half does already.
Yes, this, aboslutely, 110%. I spent the better part of an hour one night, not to mention quite a few credits (I didn't really need, but beside the point), making stacks of 4000 crushed stones to sell, because I could hold a few crushed stones at a time, so I had to place them in batches I could hold, put them up for sale, cancel the sale, have them pushed back into my inventory, and place over-sized stacks of items back for sale. On the plus side, this did let me violate M/V for a while.
