Hey all, So, there I am in my nice CV with its Minigun turrets destroying the waves of Interceptors attacking me (Reforged Eden game) as I mine an Asteroid leaving many wrecks surrounding the ship. I'd quite like to loot these wrecks, but it's a total pain in the rear. Suit up for space, leave the CV, sloowwwlly fly to each wreck, hoping it doesn't despawn - they never die nice and close it seems lol. At the stage of the game where the player has a decent CV, there should be a better way to loot Drone wrecks. I'm sat in a Mining Turret currently, collecting some Magnesium from an asteroid as my ship is being attacked. I thought "wouldn't it be great if I could just shoot these Interceptor wrecks to loot them". We currently have Weapon, Mining an Tool Turrets, but how about a forth turret type that simply loots Drone wrecks. Is this at all possible? Can a turret have the ability to interact with a container - which is what a Drone wreck is at the end of the day? Personally, I'd like to add to this and allow the Tool Turret to reclaim such wrecks - and their inventories - in their entirety, perhaps limited to an "Advanced" Tool turret. Balancing would be the usual weight, material, energy and CPU costs, but it'd be bloody lovely to be able to loot Drone in space in this way. I discard so much Drone loot in space, purely because it's too clunky to have to do this in person all the time. I'll snag the odd Drone loot of course, if they happen to die close-by, but otherwise it's a bit of a pain. What do people think? Obviously no one would have to use it if they didn't want to, but it'd be great for those that did. An alternative to this might be your classic tractor beam in the form of a turret. Bring those wrecks nice and close - even into a hangar potentially - to aid looting. This would be cool as it'd allow fun designs with the Tractor Beam turret in a Hangar bay, with the Hangar needing to be opened (linked to turret being active) to drag them in. The player would then exit the turret, walk to the bay and loot with relative ease.
i Agree, either the system change where you don't have to follow backwards the breadcrumbs of loot in space (also you can hardly see it) or give us some device that collects the destroyed cargo loot on a radius.
It could potentially help with that too, though my post was primarily in regards to being able to loot Drone wrecks in space. Both are temporary containers - they despawn after a set time - so if the base mechanic can be implemented (transfer wares from container to Harvest Storage) then this'd work too.
