Cargo Pod - Space

[can'tdecide]

Is there a specific way to loot them? I shoot them and I don't see the resources go to my freighter, ship or personal inventory. Am I missing something when it comes to these pods?

[John Truck]

If you shoot them enough they explode and the goods go into your ship (unless its inventory is already full). Just like shooting asteroids.

[can'tdecide]

Originally posted by John Truck:

If you shoot them enough they explode and the goods go into your ship (unless its inventory is already full). Just like shooting asteroids.

Ok, that's what I thought. I've been doing exactly that but nothing is being put into my inventory, any of my inventories. They just explode in spectacular fashion and nothing else. Do you know if this is a common issue?

[Nettle]

Possible explanations:

• This seemingly empty pod contained nanites which take up zero inventory space
  
• The system is swarming with players and weird things are happening as a result.

[can'tdecide]

Originally posted by Nettle:

Possible explanations:

• This seemingly empty pod contained nanites which take up zero inventory space
  
• The system is swarming with players and weird things are happening as a result.

Gonna assume the ladder. I've shot pods containing ores, capacitors and blank ones that only say "Cargo Pods", nothing ever comes of them including the nanites. Sucks I guess.

[Happy Monkey]

I think the blank ones are actually empty

[Wizard of Woz]

Originally posted by can'tdecide:

Originally posted by Nettle:

Possible explanations:

• This seemingly empty pod contained nanites which take up zero inventory space
  
• The system is swarming with players and weird things are happening as a result.

Gonna assume the ladder. I've shot pods containing ores, capacitors and blank ones that only say "Cargo Pods", nothing ever comes of them including the nanites. Sucks I guess.

I guarantee they are going into your inventory and you are just not seeing it. Unless you use mods of course. And as stated the empty ones are just that, empty.

[can'tdecide]

Originally posted by Wizard of Woz:

Originally posted by can'tdecide:

Gonna assume the ladder. I've shot pods containing ores, capacitors and blank ones that only say "Cargo Pods", nothing ever comes of them including the nanites. Sucks I guess.

I guarantee they are going into your inventory and you are just not seeing it. Unless you use mods of course. And as stated the empty ones are just that, empty.

Your "guarantee" isn't worth ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to me. I've looked up videos of what cargo pod collections looks like and I don't get the same resource pop up in the upper right. I've checked Reddit and Steam posts. I have taken a screen shot of all my inventories including my out of reach freighter before and after destroying a weapons pod. Not a single resource changes, not a single resource is gained.

I don't make assumptions like a tool without being thorough, this discussion wasn't made as a first attempt either. My problem remains.

[Wizard of Woz]

Originally posted by can'tdecide:

Originally posted by Wizard of Woz:

I guarantee they are going into your inventory and you are just not seeing it. Unless you use mods of course. And as stated the empty ones are just that, empty.

Your "guarantee" isn't worth ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to me. I've looked up videos of what cargo pod collections looks like and I don't get the same resource pop up in the upper right. I've checked Reddit and Steam posts. I have taken a screen shot of all my inventories including my out of reach freighter before and after destroying a weapons pod. Not a single resource changes, not a single resource is gained.

I don't make assumptions like a tool without being thorough, this discussion wasn't made as a first attempt either. My problem remains.

So you somehow have a problem that no one else has.....
Like I said either a mod issue or you are just missing something.

[Nettle]

Originally posted by Wizard of Woz:

Like I said either a mod issue or you are just missing something.

Like I said, weird things happen when other people are around. I've seen this before. Once.

Can't remember precisely how I got around it but it probably involved reloading.

[Heliosa]

Something similar happened to me not in space but on a dissonant planet while playing with an old save. I was collecting reverse mirrors but I couldn't find them anywhere in my inventories. They ended up reappearing several days later... in my freighter.

[can'tdecide]

Originally posted by Nettle:

Originally posted by Wizard of Woz:

Like I said either a mod issue or you are just missing something.

Like I said, weird things happen when other people are around. I've seen this before. Once.

Can't remember precisely how I got around it but it probably involved reloading.

Some people truly enjoy being totally f*cking useless

I figured out the problem, maybe this is what happened to you too. During pirate raids with juggernauts, civilian cargo pods will not provide any loot despite showing up like they do normally. Until now, I've never tried looting a cargo pod and then I began coming across them constantly in raids. I had only ever tried during raid events.

I opted to take a pirate mission to raid a frigate and I was able to take cargo pods off of a freighter with the loot actually coming to me. So I began searching for freighters outside of raids and was able to loot the cargo pods from those as well.

The problem is looting cargo pods during juggernaut events, the devs deactivate the cargo pods for those I'm guessing. I take it's because they make the civilian fleets perma friendly even after the jugger is destroyed. Makes sense, just wish they'd have removed the pods entirely or given a tip about cargo pods not working.