Goonhub
06-06-2023, 09:54 PM
I believe you are being somewhat unfair to Cargo here. The Rockbox as is is designed to be oriented towards "throw stuff in you don't care about" and, while that may not be the case you want it to be for, it's not selfish for QMs to think that there is any problem to take as much as they want.
The analogy of the chef setting out food does not work very well because the usual intention of setting food out like so is to make a bunch of folk happy and/or impressed at such a variety being offered. There's effort there beyond just clickdragging a crate to a thing. Furthermore, unless there's particular buffs involved with the dishes, there isn't really much gain from mass-eating the chef's food compared to just eating a bit, or even just buying food from a vending machine. Buying and then selling ores in the rockbox, in contrast, scales well with helping cargo do stuff.
Your solution ultimately comes down to other people communicating with the miners. However, that already exists as a solution on its own without adding some restriction to the rockbox; if you care about where your ores are going, don't put them in the rockbox, mention on radio that they're there, and listen for requests. The rockbox, by design, is an incredibly simple "throw stuff in and forget" contraption.
I'd like to close by again emphasizing that I think you are being needlessly aggro about Cargo's side of Rockbox usage. Please try to understand this from a QM perspective; that the rockbox is a clear "buy what you want, I don't care" device. Unless you're specifically asking them not to use it willy-nilly (which is itself a volatile proposition, since you'd need to be sure every QM, current and future, will know your request), why would they think there's an issue with buying up everything? Especially since the most common usage, robotics needing more metal, crystal, and wires, is actually more efficiently dealt with in-bulk by both the roboticists and QMs by the QMs buying metal/glass/wires crates rather than the roboticists buying the materials with their own relatively limited funds.
The analogy of the chef setting out food does not work very well because the usual intention of setting food out like so is to make a bunch of folk happy and/or impressed at such a variety being offered. There's effort there beyond just clickdragging a crate to a thing. Furthermore, unless there's particular buffs involved with the dishes, there isn't really much gain from mass-eating the chef's food compared to just eating a bit, or even just buying food from a vending machine. Buying and then selling ores in the rockbox, in contrast, scales well with helping cargo do stuff.
Your solution ultimately comes down to other people communicating with the miners. However, that already exists as a solution on its own without adding some restriction to the rockbox; if you care about where your ores are going, don't put them in the rockbox, mention on radio that they're there, and listen for requests. The rockbox, by design, is an incredibly simple "throw stuff in and forget" contraption.
I'd like to close by again emphasizing that I think you are being needlessly aggro about Cargo's side of Rockbox usage. Please try to understand this from a QM perspective; that the rockbox is a clear "buy what you want, I don't care" device. Unless you're specifically asking them not to use it willy-nilly (which is itself a volatile proposition, since you'd need to be sure every QM, current and future, will know your request), why would they think there's an issue with buying up everything? Especially since the most common usage, robotics needing more metal, crystal, and wires, is actually more efficiently dealt with in-bulk by both the roboticists and QMs by the QMs buying metal/glass/wires crates rather than the roboticists buying the materials with their own relatively limited funds.