Mining Cargo Bay bug?

[lunaticfringe80]

I am having an issue with mining minerals when I jettison unwanted cargo. When my cargo bay slots get full I jettison the Metal Alloys to make room for more Diamond or Platinum but sometimes Diamond or Platinum will begin to fill that cargo bay slot even if that material already has a cargo slot with room for more. This tends to result in too many slots for a single material and causes the other material to be wasted.

Is this a bug or intended? Without the ability to move cargo into another slot with the same material this is causing the loss of valuable commodities for me.

Sorry if this is addressed elsewhere but my search did not find anything.

[Edited on 2012-19-1 by lunaticfringe80]

[Marvin]

When one cargo bay is filled, the previous cargo bay will continue to be filled until both are at 25 units.

[lunaticfringe80]

When one cargo bay is filled, the previous cargo bay will continue to be filled until both are at 25 units.

Yes, but when I jettison the Metal Alloys sometimes Platinum or Diamonds will start filling that empty cargo bay even though it already has a cargo bay that is not yet full. So if I continuously eject Metal Alloys then I could end up with 3 or 4 bays with just 2 or 3 Diamonds in each leaving little room for Platinum causing it to be wasted.

I guess I just don't understand why the game does not just continue to fill a cargo bay until it is full rather than starting to fill a new cargo bay prematurely.

[Maarschalk]

Hi Lunaticfringe80, welcome to the game and forum.....hope to see you out there some time!

The first Cargo bay always fills up first with what ever you pick up first! Then your second Cargo bay will fill up with the next first item you pick up that is different from the first Cargo bay! So if you have 3 Cargo bays and you want to fill al 3 with only platinum you can prime them! Let the first slot pick up metal and the second diamonds and then the third Platinum. Once you have one unit of Platinum in the last cargo bay jettison what ever is in the second Cargo bay till the second Cargo bay picks up 1 unit of Platinum. Now jettison the metal in the first Cargo Bay and keep jettison first Cargo bay till it picks up Platinum. Now all your Cargo bays will fill up with Platinum one after the other!

You can also prime your Cargo bays for what you want to mine by leaving 1 unit of each you want to mine in each Cargo bay, You can do this when docked at a Station by buying only one unit and or selling 1 unit at a time!.....

You can also try to find a Platinum mining beam that will only mine platinum!

[Edited on 1-19-2012 by Maarschalk]

[lunaticfringe80]

Ah, I can see how that can be useful later on in the game. I didn't notice it was going top down. Thank you.