The time it takes to store an item from your hands to your pack is FAR longer than it takes to pick an item up and put it into your pack.
Example: If I’m carrying my pneumatic rifle, and go to draw my sabre from a sheath, I can either:
- Drop the rifle to draw the sword, then pick up and stow the rifle - takes 30 seconds of game time.
- Stow the rifle from my hands, then draw the sword takes 72 seconds - more than twice as long!
Needless to say this is non-intuitive. It would make sense to drop the gun and draw the sword in order to minimize the time to draw the sword - but it is nonsensical that I can then also pick up and stow the gun in far less time than it would have taken to simply stow it in the first place.