21th'ed

Well think of it this way... If you're a pirate chasing a transport as they flee, and you see them drop a cargo container, you're going to target it and /charinfo it, right? That takes, what, a second or two if you're pretty quick... could be enough hesitation time that the transport gets away. So a carbonic (or aquean heheheheh) could be a perfectly good decoy if it's a full-speed chase.

Unless the pirate is just after the kill.. In that case, it still wouldn't matter what the transport drops.

twenty-seconded

Well, this is definitely on my wish-list...

Some kind of tractor beam as well so you didn't actually have to ram all the cargo to pick it up..

20X6thed

Excellent idea. We were planning to come up with something like this, and this is a simple (backwards-compatible even!) solution.

now, lesse..... for those times when you have a hold full of just one type of cargo, it would be nice to be able to jettison it piecemeal... how about something like this??

-#1 hold <10cu, one icon for each type of cargo

-#2 hold <15cu, two icons for each type, one plain (the whole load), and one with a "1x" after it (release only one unit at a time)

-#3 hold >15, three icons per type, one plain, one "1x", one "5x"

..this could be nice and simple, laid out so you could dump just what you want in the middle of a full-speed chase:

-take finger off TAB key, hold down J key, tap 1x Luxury Goods icon three times, release J key, continue boosting.... (maybe 1.5 seconds, total??)