Will we be able to buy empty mining bags and also drop them from inventory to easily attach and trade? The question about dropping items also applies to mining lasers, mining components and other similar objects.asked by Kniebel
TL;DRMining bags can't be dropped from inventory, but can be pulled out via freight elevator and stored in cargo; attached bags can already be detached, and selling and refinery handling are being worked on.
So dropping, no, but using the freight elevator to pull them out and then using them or storing them in the cargo hold, yes. Because as described, we don't want this magic appearance of items, so we really want to wait for the proper system, which is the freight elevator, to pull out those entities into the real world.
They will definitely drop from the ship. So once you fill them in your Prospector, you'll be able to drop them at a refinery with a tractor beam. They'll just pick them up, take them, empty them, refine them, drop the empty one, you pick it up and put it in your Prospector, and so on.
So you can already detach the mining sacks from the Prospector and the MOLE. You can already put them on the cargo grid. So this is also something that we are actively working on: making them detectable by the commodity stores so that you can sell them, but also for the refinery, so that you place them on someone else's ship and then fly to a refinery, and that person is then able to start the refining process for the Prospector owner. So it's also important to us that it's all tying in with the group gameplay, that members of your group can actually do the same actions as you would as the owner.