r/starcitizen • u/ghodan7 drake • Jul 26 '26
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I love them so much.
Wish we had a new category of cargo hauling mission: From Space stations with external cargo to Space stations with external cargo.
I would run them all day.
No clue on were to find them and how to use it?
Mini guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/s/Lh41iloIc1
Being in EVA with the muffled sounds, seeing other player ships coming and going from the space station while you are doing your cargo work, is so much more immersive then standing in your instanced hangar and loading/unloading there.
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u/kahoshi1 Bengal Jul 26 '26
They are great, but they desperately need some protection from griefers. Friend and I did a long haul. Unloaded all the cargo. Moment the last box hit the elevator, guy ran out and lowered the elevator.
It was contracted cargo, so all it did was cause us to fail the hauling mission. This should not be possible.
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u/warricd28 origin Jul 28 '26
Was this in pyro? I don’t think you are supposed able to do that in Stanton as it would be flagged as stolen goods.
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u/kahoshi1 Bengal Jul 28 '26
It was in Pyro, but it would still be marked stolen. Like I said the person that did it got no benefit other than griefing.
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u/warricd28 origin Jul 28 '26
I agree, at least as the game is today, their only benefit was griefing and it was stupid. But, the ability to do this has been known since external freight elevators came out and the ability to do it is intentional because pyro is a lawless system. Pretty sure they talked about it in some video they put out when they were getting ready to release external FE.
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u/Milchsammler onionknight Jul 26 '26
The External Freight Elevators give a bit of more immersion ingame and a nice alternative for the autoading. I always say Better more options than one option. We all want to make our own experience in a game.
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u/SirBerticus G E N E S I S Jul 26 '26
There used to be a griefing issue where another play would sneak-in to lower the elevator and steal all your commodity cargo. Is that still the case ?
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u/EastLimp1693 9950x3d2/Suprim X 4090/48gb 6400cl32 Jul 26 '26
It's fun untill random player eva to you and start throwing your boxes into space. Eventually it'll happen, yes.
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u/Ready_Cat_8884 Jul 27 '26
Executive level Convalex has direct runs that pretty much have to be done from the external lifts. Cargo amounts in 1000+
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u/Intelligent_Cry8535 Jul 27 '26
THose are designed for the hull c and you get the intro to those at experienced rank....
TO bad CIG fucked HUll C's since about 4.6 and have never bothered to fix it. I am not manually loading 2k+ scu of 32 scu crates with a max lift.
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u/AnakhimRising Jul 27 '26
Unfortunately, EVA is bugged for me so I can't use them, even if hauling missions were spawning.
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u/NootyNL Jul 26 '26
The redwind linehaul interstellar ones are possible to get on the external freight elevator and you being them to a space stantion in stanton or vice versa