Scooping anomalies

[Judebert]

I've found two scooping anomalies.

I'm still in galaxy 1, so I'm often running full or nearly full. But sometimes I get into fights where the horde polishes off a bit of my cargo: then it's time for plunder!

Strangely, though, when I trade gold, platinum, or gems at a station, it doesn't count against my cargo capacity. When I scoop them, they do. On F5 screen, it shows 29t/30t, plus whatever I scooped. But I can't scoop anything else until I jettison something, and the attempt results in ramming.

I could explain this away, saying the booty is in a cargo container, and I can move it into the safe only after I've docked. So it's just an anomaly, not a bug.

Second, I can't scoop fuel containers if my cargo bay is full. I'm using the fuelpod OXP, of course. Annoying, but I could make the same rationalization as above.

[Arexack_Heretic]

The scooped pods do not take up space like the valuables.

My rationalisation is thus:
the last cannisters are still held by the cannister handling bots, there is actually no cargocradle for the last pods.
(this makes no sense with cargo-cycling) :/

A thing that bothers me lately: some OXP or Oolite calls for cargo in a strange way:

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[Universe getShipWithRole: Luxuries] couldn't find a ship!

Don't know what is causiing the ruckus.
forget about me writing down my specs. Dinnertime and I got all the OXPs.etc

[GoreLeech]

hunh...ive seen something similar before.......the only solution is rebooting Oolite, and it seems to straighten itself out

[TGHC]

I could explain this away, saying the booty is in a cargo container, and I can move it into the safe only after I've docked. So it's just an anomaly, not a bug.

Second, I can't scoop fuel containers if my cargo bay is full. I'm using the fuelpod OXP, of course. Annoying, but I could make the same rationalization as above.

You are right it's an anomaly not a bug, whatever you scoop counts as if it's a 1ton container. Oddly though if you scooped multiple containers at high speed you used to be able to go over your cargo hold limit.

[eddyp]

I've found two scooping anomalies.

Strangely, though, when I trade gold, platinum, or gems at a station, it doesn't count against my cargo capacity. When I scoop them, they do. On F5 screen, it shows 29t/30t, plus whatever I scooped. But I can't scoop anything else until I jettison something, and the attempt results in ramming.

I could explain this away, saying the booty is in a cargo container, and I can move it into the safe only after I've docked. So it's just an anomaly, not a bug.

Second, I can't scoop fuel containers if my cargo bay is full. I'm using the fuelpod OXP, of course. Annoying, but I could make the same rationalization as above.

This IS a bug IMHO since if you jettison the gold/platinum/gem-stones you will NOT get the cargo space back, AFAICT.

Also, I am in the second galaxy and this happens to me only for Platinum, I don't think I have seen this behaviour for Gold or gem-stones.

[Arexack_Heretic]

Oddly though if you scooped multiple containers at high speed you used to be able to go over your cargo hold limit.

Expect a slight delay at the next station as cargohandlers are forced to excavate your cargohold manually.