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Is there any specific 3.2 functionality to cargo? Does cargo even have ownership? If it's your cargo in your Freelancer, and I board your Freelancer when I'm not in a group or whatever, can I physically take your cargo?

TL;DRTaking others' cargo isn't supported in the first implementation: free-floating cargo is unowned, cargo locked in a ship's grid belongs to that ship's owner, and kiosk access to others' ships depends on undecided fleet sharing.

Calix ReneauSystems Designer

Yeah, but those sorts of features sort of hinge into more like fleet sharing, which was waiting on orgs and was also just kind of complicated to start to think about at this point. I think that we're open to it working that way, but it certainly doesn't support that yet.

Spencer JohnsonAssociate Gameplay Engineer

It's not a tier zero thing. Also worth mentioning that when you see free-floating cargo, when a ship blows up or something like that, nobody owns that. That's free game. But if it's locked in the grid, then yeah, it's persistently owned by that ship, which is persistently owned by the person who owns that ship.

Calix ReneauSystems Designer

But that at least means, if I understand correctly, that if I and my group of friends manually truck in a bunch of those boxes, they will be owned by the ship that we put them in.

Spencer JohnsonAssociate Gameplay Engineer

Yes, which you have the keys to, basically. Almost, yeah. The kiosks are a bit of a different story. Currently, you can't access ships not owned by you through a commodity kiosk.

Calix ReneauSystems Designer

That's why it's part of the whole question about fleet sharing: whether or not you have access to that ship outside, in those kiosks.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

So we're all in a party. You can carry a box off a ship that Ken owns, but you can't go to a kiosk and then sell that and have it disappear from the...

Spencer JohnsonAssociate Gameplay Engineer

Well, if it's something that I've picked up and put into my own ship, I can certainly sell it, because I own it now. But I can't access his ship from the drop-down in the commodity kiosk. Certainly, like Calix said, there are broader questions of what is a fleet in the future, so maybe you could say, all right, now this guy can actually access my ship from this terminal, but currently not in tier zero.

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