Had you even read the description of the slingshot?
You throw items at it, then send it away and after some time you get items of similar cost for exchange (from non-existent on map vault), it's not a drop-pod.

Seems like this does not send items to other maps/tiles like it implies. Instead you place random items into the slingshot, send them, then after some time has passed a cargo crate appears "on the same map" with a random item drop. It is a little confusing and should have been explained better. I thought this acted like a drop pod to send items to other tiles as well.

Seems like the slingshot was intended for the playthrough part of the game. So unless you spend some time at the vault or colonize one from a quest the slingshot is otherwise useless. Personally I would like if we had the option to use it like a drop pod or for the random cargo crate.

I used it to get rid of some bulk stuff that was useless to me (including some fresh, tundra-frozen corpses that had value) and it returned me an Archotech Spine (SOS2), a Power Claw and some Mech Repair Serum (not necessarily in that order)

Originally posted by UberhenriK:

Had you even read the description of the slingshot?
You throw items at it, then send it away and after some time you get items of similar cost for exchange (from non-existent on map vault), it's not a drop-pod.

Ah that makes a lot more sense

Ope I stand corrected, after like a week in game I did receive a cargo drop at my base. It was very quick and I would have missed it without the notice.

I think it should pop up an event like drop pods do instead of just landing silent not saying what and where it arrived

it should give you a notification now, oskar pushed an update about that, also the drop arrives pretty accurately after 7 days

would it be possible for the drops to be advised via letter/mail? so you can see what dropped and where? i have lost stuff simply because i couldnt find it before it rotted away :/