Just a thought, but what if blasting cargo turned it into scrap metal?

Nop

Pro:
Converts unwanted cargo into potentially useful cargo
Provides easy scrap metal for missions or perhaps crafting

Con:
Scrap metal might be more valuable than original cargo
Missions requiring scrap metal would be too easy
Would yield very little scrap
Scrap would be unlikely to be valuable metal

heh id start jetting precious metals to make into scrap metals, which is almost always more valuable.

*shoots water* Oh scrap metal!
*shoots sand* OH SCRAP METAL!!!!

Obviously only cargo containers 2cu or more in size would yield scrap metal. (;

2cu = 1u scrap metal
4cu = 2u scrap metal
6cu = 3u scrap metal
8cu = 4u scrap metal

They don't ship water or other worthless stuff in containers bigger than 1cu.

^ Cunjos is the only post/idea that gets the [Stamp of Approval]™

It could just turn into unsellable slag that just takes up room in your hold. Or the cost of slag would be 1c and wouldn't count as scrap metal.

I like the idea (able to destroy cargo with weapons), but agree that "scrap metal" is not the right way to denominate "scorched earth" cargoes.

Devs, please make a new widget, per West0194's suggestion.

Add ons could explode.

lol proximine cargobombs

nah screamers, an xc load of proxmines is only 5 million damage, screamers, 9.6 million. though the benefit of the proxmines is they have a huge splash radius, good for wipeing out wings of fighters at a time

also this would take concatapulting to a whole new level, you could effectivey catapult the levi into one of the roids in its ring, or as i like to do already, the queens into the levi