If dropping ships-as-cargo is ever going to work, the game will need to be able to box things up from player inventories so that ships and their addons properly transfer when jettisoned. How about extending this to make it more general-purpose!

This way, you could (using Unassembled Cargo Crates perhaps?) box up other widgets and drop them as a single unit for trading to other players or just keeping track of inventory items.

Players could use this functionality to pack manufacturing ingredients or kits for sale or storage.

As long as there's some added size overhead and limits to keep people from making matryoshka crates that crash the game, it might be neat.

+1.

What happens when you drop a 200cu container in space, and someone else (with a less than 200cu hold) tries to pick it up?

Is there a way to "unrap" it, in space?

-1

It sounds good. I would like it. But: it does not add that much to the game, it could be problematic, and it doesn't sound worth the dev time.

I guess you could make them blowupable with a chance that their contents don't drop? That's how ship's addons work right now

+1