all my stuff in the captains storage is gone!!!

[Critterina]

i put a lot of stuff in the captain storage on the ship and its gone now :((

[Jaggid Edje]

If you edited your ship in the ship builder, or if you switched home ships, it all gets moved to the cargo hold.

[Zé do Caixão]

Check your ships cargo, usually to the left of the pilots seat.

[justfaded]

Yeah it's not safe. Just stick to the safe in the lodge for permanent storage. Don't trust ship cargo either.

[A Spicy Meatball]

save save save, save save

[daug]

If you change Home Ships your Captains storage doesn't transfer over. You will need to make your old ship your Home Ship again to have access to it.

[AoD_lexandro]

Nothing wrong with ship cargo. The captains locker is just not the cargo bay. Its perfectly safe, as its never deleted. Anything is just moved to the cargo bay.

[daug]

Originally posted by AoD_lexandro:

Nothing wrong with ship cargo. The captains locker is just not the cargo bay. Its perfectly safe, as its never deleted. Anything is just moved to the cargo bay.

Captains storage doesn't transfer. every time I have taken over a ship the cargo bay and crew transfers but not the Captains Locker, it is empty and also not in my cargo bay. when I get to a place that I can change back to the ship I was in before I took the other ship over, all the items I had in my Captains Locker are back in the Captains Locker. I have taken over many ships and this happens every time.

[Critterina]

Originally posted by AoD_lexandro:

Nothing wrong with ship cargo. The captains locker is just not the cargo bay. Its perfectly safe, as its never deleted. Anything is just moved to the cargo bay.

how do i access cargo bay?

[STV]

Originally posted by Critterina:

Originally posted by AoD_lexandro:

Nothing wrong with ship cargo. The captains locker is just not the cargo bay. Its perfectly safe, as its never deleted. Anything is just moved to the cargo bay.

how do i access cargo bay?

There's a square screen near the cockpit that grants access - took me around 9 hours to locate it first time.

[STV]

Personally I think the Captains Locker and Cargo work the wrong way around.

In RL, a captain will keep his personal affects with him and move them to his next ship. No captain is ever going to unpack the cargo hold and transport it with him to his next ship only then to drag 100,000s of tons of cargo behind his yacht.

As for the "reason" that players could exploit the "switch ship to avoid contraband checks" - if this is the concern - then simply change the ship to be "requested" at the new landing pad and perform a contraband search on arrival.

[daug]

Originally posted by STV:

Originally posted by Critterina:

how do i access cargo bay?

There's a square screen near the cockpit that grants access - took me around 9 hours to locate it first time.

you can also go to your menu and then select the ship section in the lower left of the screen, it is to the left of your player inventory section. from there you can access ship cargo and even transfer items as long as your character is close to the ship, I play with an Xbox controller so it's the X button for me, but there is a key at the lower right of the screen that shows key bindings.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by daug:

Captains storage doesn't transfer. every time I have taken over a ship the cargo bay and crew transfers but not the Captains Locker,

It does in my game.

I WISH it worked the way you are describing for me, but it does not. When I switchedit ships everything in my captain's locker gets moved to the cargo hold.

Edit: It just occurred to me that I'm not actually sure what the captain's locker does when I switch ships. It all gets dumped to the cargo bay when I use the ship builder to modify a ship, and after about 4 or 5 times of that happening I just stopped using the captain's locker. I don't think I have ever had anything in it when I just switch ships because of that.

[daug]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Originally posted by daug:

Captains storage doesn't transfer. every time I have taken over a ship the cargo bay and crew transfers but not the Captains Locker,

It does in my game.

I WISH it worked the way you are describing for me, but it does not. When I switchedit ships everything in my captain's locker gets moved to the cargo hold.

Edit: It just occurred to me that I'm not actually sure what the captain's locker does when I switch ships. It all gets dumped to the cargo bay when I use the ship builder to modify a ship, and after about 4 or 5 times of that happening I just stopped using the captain's locker. I don't think I have ever had anything in it when I just switch ships because of that.

I only keep a few things in it, My Mining Laser, about 5 different clothing outfits I like so I can change it up on occasion, and all the skill magazines I find. they stay in my Captains locker on the Mantis Ship until I pull them out, even if I change Home Ships.
I think I'll do an experiment when I get home and load the captains Lockers on my ships with different items and then change home ships to see if those items stay with the ships I put them on.

[Jaggid Edje]

I've seen at least one other person say that it stays in the captain's locker if all you do is switch ships. And even just stays on the specific ship where you stored it.

Do let us know if that's what you experience as well. It would make the locker a lot more useful once you know you aren't going to be in and out of the ship builder much (if at all).

[The Hat]

The cargo hold is safe. I've upgraded it massively at this point and I use it for everything.

I wish they'd make the captains locker static like the cargo too, its a common container across all ships so it'd make sense.