What's the point of cargo ships?

Am I missing something? There's no arbitrage trading opportunities as far as I can tell so what cargo are you supposed to be hauling? Piles of looted succulents and notepads?

(Serious question! I like space trading games but I don't see that as a thing and I really am curious if I'm missing something.)

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Xander72@lemmy.one · 21 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Aren't there cargo hauling missions on the mission boards at various cities?

Corran1138@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y

Yep! AND you need to have the cargo space to actually haul the object! I had a 3300kg probe or something. But no ship with large enough space yet! So it sits on my board, undoable.

Stillhart@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 3y

Thanks, I hadn't noticed these.

Dragon_dick_99@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 3y (2 replies)

I just got a delivery mission that wants me to collect 5,000 argon. That'd take like 25 trips in my current ship.

Lostmimic@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Just hold the 5000 argon in your inventory. I think I was walking around at 70,000/185 for a while...

Just have to load it all into the ship, talk to the person and rinse repeat that small loop

UncommonBagOfLoot@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

That's what I've been doing.

But dropping the argon inside your ship might also count as cargo. Decor items like weight-plates, dumbbell etc uses up cargo space. Will try it once my Aluminum storage is full again.

weeahnn@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y

Yeah as others have said there are missions to haul stuff from A to B. Also, it's nice to have a bunch of space for all the resources that I usually collect. At this point I have about 10 times the total carry weight in my cargo space.

Cyncit@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 3y

I use it to stock pile ressources (for crafting things, upgrading equipment...) until I onload in my outpost containers. They are heavy.

Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 5 pts · 3y

Your ship can only hold so much stuff. If you plan on utilizing resources for building, you might want to invest in a ship with very little hab and storage containers all over. I'm struggling to have things on hand with 3000 cargo space. 😩