what is all the stuff for in the truck

[Bliff]

the boxes of craft supplies and other random things in the shelving and i found some beer in space but cant drink it
are the cleaning supplies used to clean the trucks at some point?

also at least 1 battery goes flat every other job there huge and dont last at all and costing me a fortune im getting around 2-3k and most of it is going on buying a battery and fuel at the end of each job

[Woodzie]

I think they're pretty much trade goods you can find or buy to sell at other stations for profit. You can check the map to see what Systems have a demand for specific trade goods. Some trade goods may not be legal in certain Systems, like narcotics, so watch out for that.

I'm also having a hard time managing the power cells. Docking several times in every system just to finish a job then buy power cells is getting incredibly tedious.

[누나]

You could adjust the difficulty settings to make the consumables last longer

[Bravura Lion]

Originally posted by 누나:

You could adjust the difficulty settings to make the consumables last longer

where can you do that after you started a game?

[Kambien]

Originally posted by Bravura Lion:

Originally posted by 누나:

You could adjust the difficulty settings to make the consumables last longer

where can you do that after you started a game?

Watching...

[Big Jim]

I always have 2 boxes of batteries, 2 boxes of air filters and 1 box of these regulators. Recently 1 box with the electrostatic blockers. The other things seem to be cosmetics because they don't make enough profit to trade.

[GastoneFrizzi]

Originally posted by Bravura Lion:

Originally posted by 누나:

You could adjust the difficulty settings to make the consumables last longer

where can you do that after you started a game?

you can't

[CrimsonXFrost]

Reading the manual and it says those items can be salvaged. Goods are spilled or abandoned. you can equip your space suit, go outside the cab and collect them. It also notes that u can bring those hard case containers outside with you to grab more than 1 item at once and bring them back in the cab. Those items can then be sold at stations and each station has a demand for certain goods so keep an eye out to sell them off for a bit of extra profit.

[YLLWRSTY]

Originally posted by Bliff:

I found some beer in space but cant drink it

I'd advise you to sell that promptly before it becomes an issue. Alcohol isn't permitted to be brought into all sectors, and you could be fined if you're caught with it in the wrong place.

Originally posted by Bliff:

Also at least 1 battery goes flat every other job there huge and dont last at all and costing me a fortune im getting around 2-3k and most of it is going on buying a battery and fuel at the end of each job

The dev team is aware of this issue, and re-balancing of the cost of power cells is planned for the first update. In the meantime, here's two things you can do:

1) Read and follow this very helpful guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3326038605

2) When viewing the map of the galaxy, you can click on sectors and open a drop-down box on the left of the screen that shows the current prices for various types of goods in that sector. One of them is "energy". Sectors with lower energy prices will have cheaper full power cells to buy. Sectors with higher energy prices are good places to sell the empties.