In the training mission where you have to kill the bots my second bot dropped loot but the mission didn't mention anything about it. I kinda guessed and rammed into it to collect it. But the mission should include training about how to collect loot. The better the training, the more at easy the player becomes, the funner the game becomes.

Agreed...I tried shooting it, then accidently ran into it and saw an explosion, thought I had screwed up and destroyed the cargo.

Flying over it is a pain especially in the heat of combat. I'm not saying put an auto looter in cause then your cargo will be full quick but if you wanna loot something like press a key so a beam will "tractor" it into your cargo like the J key dumps all your cargo. Also a better description of what you have in your cargo hold would be nice and the ability to dump the low value cargo to pick up some higher value ones. Now you just have to dump everything and hope you get the right cargo back into your hold.

Yes, this seems good. Like a sort of Freelancer-style cargo bay and tractor beam.

I quite like it, since it adds -some- kind of difficulty to the looting.

then again, tying up another weapon port for the cargo-stealer could be an idea ;)

Yep, having the option to choose which cargo you want to dump would save a lot of hassle, especially when trying to get some high price loot in your 6 cargo-slot free ship :P

I personally think when you press the J key, it should bring up a window on the left hand side of the screen , where you can choose to dump which cargo slot by having assigned letters on each cargo slot picture, and then have a separate key to dump all.