please Frontier - raise the module storage capicity up to 2000 modules or more. please ... please ... pleeeeeeeease :) !

[sn0wman]

Hi FDEV-Team. The last announced changes for Elite sound very promising (yesterdays livestream, 30. of July).
A lot of people have waited so long for this. These are great changes. Kudos to all off you ;-) !!!
As the update is almost on the way, please think about a last minute change. We promise you it won´t take a lot of time to do it, please trust the playerbase.
It would be a very big and needed change for all uf us.

* it´s just one small step for FDEV, but a big leap for the playerbase *

We please you to add way more module-capacity to the storage. Maybe you know it already, if you took a deeper look into our play-patterns.
Most of us bought and stored a lot of "storage-ships", just to keep all the engineered modules and the the special ones (some before engenerring has changed,
some of them are community-goal missions-rewards.
It´s time to sell or put all these storage-ship into the trash-compactor. On the other hand we dont have to waste so much time, sorting and finding modules anymore.
I for myself have almost 20 storage-ships, full with engineered modules. Its a mess ... and i am not alone. We are many ... !


FDEV you are the only ones who can help us ... ;-)

 

[GroG79]

Useless with the current mechanism and GUI

Not able to sort. Not able to group modules etc

It will be a chore finding one specific module

 

[Mrc_NorthEast]

No matter what the module limit is set to, people will hit it. Buy ships and put the modules you want to store on them. Then name the ship something to help find the modules in it, when you later need to find something

 

[Riverside]

The way this was addressed with mats storage was to have a bin for each item.

I treat module, ship & mats management as part of the game & whatever the storage limit is I just work with it rather than hoarding everything 'just in case'.

One of my quibbles with the current system is storing potentially useful engineered modules (shield boosters, HRPs etc) from ships I have stripped. I am hoping the new (aug-24) engineering pass will make it sufficiently easier to gather mats & engineer these bread & butter modules that I can reduce my engineered modules storage requirements.

I don't mind the limit being increased but I think there should still be a limit.

 

[Hermodt]

It would be extremely important to drastically increase the module storage. Most of the people I play with regularly complain that their module storage is far too small. Many help themselves with storage ships. However, this makes things even more complicated.
2000 slots would be very desirable. It's still better to search through a long list with limited sorting options than to have to constantly dig through X number of storage ships.

Useless with the current mechanism and GUI

Not able to sort. Not able to group modules etc

It will be a chore finding one specific module

That's still better than managing dozens of storage ships. Only 40 ships can be stored on a carrier. At some point you will reach this limit too.

No matter what the module limit is set to, people will hit it. Buy ships and put the modules you want to store on them. Then name the ship something to help find the modules in it, when you later need to find something

That is much more confusing and impractical. Without Inara, I would be hopelessly lost with all the storage ships. My carrier will soon have no more room for more storage ships.

 

[aRJay]

But with the engineering changes do we need to store so many modules, engineering them on demand will be the future so all those storage ships can be sold off with the modules on board.

Or maybe not.

 

[Screemonster]

But with the engineering changes do we need to store so many modules, engineering them on demand will be the future so all those storage ships can be sold off with the modules on board.

Or maybe not.

It's more the powerplay changes that I'm interested in, so people don't have to stockpile half a dozen of every size of prismatic shield if they don't want to be pledged to aisling forever.

 

[aRJay]

It's more the powerplay changes that I'm interested in, so people don't have to stockpile half a dozen of every size of prismatic shield if they don't want to be pledged to aisling forever.

I still like the idea that any new PP modules are only loaned to you while you are pledged to that power.

 

[metatheurgist]

Raise it to over 9000!

Seriously, the better solution would be for Lakon to sell a series of ships called the Ms (module storage). M0 - 30 utility slots, no optional slots, basic core modules. M1 - same but 30 small hardpoints, M2 - 20 medium hardpoints, M3 - 10 large, M4 - 5 huge. They look like Borg Cubes (I don't recommend flying them).

Would sell like hotcakes! That's already 5 new ships! Guaranteed Arx sales for the early access program!

 

[IstvaanDCIV]

How long does one have to play before running out of module storage space? I've been going for nearly two years now, and I still have room.

 

[Jack Brolin]

2,000 seems excessive, but 200 is definitely not enough. Perhaps fleet carriers could come with additional module storage, that way there's still a meaningful limit for the early game.

 

[Planewalker]

2000 modules and low estimate 10K players using that limit says "ow my data storage".

IG 240/320 is doable, however there is an area between hoarding and usefulness.

Perhaps fleet carriers could come with additional module storage,

IIRC they do when the correct FC module is set up.

 

[IstvaanDCIV]

2000 modules and low estimate 10K players using that limit says "ow my data storage".

Why would that be? It's not like each individual module has its own unique textures or models that need to be stored and retrieved over the network. Isn't each module essentially described by some lines of text, and the assets that draw them stored on the users' machines?

I would agree that 2000 is a little much, but more because it could become unmanageable rather than for any data storage reasons.

 

[vlazet]

Most of us bought and stored a lot of "storage-ships",

Mayhaps you are overestimating the number of players who actually run into module storage issues to the degree they need "storage-ships". In all likelihood, your kind is less than 1% of all players, maybe 5% of active ones, but most people simply don't have enough fortitude to keep playing this game long enough to get to this point. That said, if the upcoming engineering update does indeed make engineering easier, this sort of problem may affect enough players for Fdev to actually care about it, so have patience and wait until it happens and you do gain critical mass to actually get your way

 

[Florenus]

I'm rather more curious why the limit is 200 and not 256.

 

[aRJay]

How long does one have to play before running out of module storage space? I've been going for nearly two years now, and I still have room.

Depends on whether you recycle modules or just engineer a new one each time plus if you never sell any (engineered)modules then not long.

I hit the previous limit quite a lot but have mostly kept some space with this one and have no ships that were bought for module storage.

 

[metatheurgist]

I'm rather more curious why the limit is 200 and not 256.

Probably because it takes more than a bit to store each module.

 

[Florenus]

Probably because it takes more than a bit to store each module.

Nah. It's exactly enough. You either have the module, or you don't.

 

[SergMx]

Hi FDEV-Team. The last announced changes for Elite sound very promising (yesterdays livestream, 30. of July).
A lot of people have waited so long for this. These are great changes. Kudos to all off you ;-) !!!
As the update is almost on the way, please think about a last minute change. We promise you it won´t take a lot of time to do it, please trust the playerbase.
It would be a very big and needed change for all uf us.

* it´s just one small step for FDEV, but a big leap for the playerbase *

We please you to add way more module-capacity to the storage. Maybe you know it already, if you took a deeper look into our play-patterns.
Most of us bought and stored a lot of "storage-ships", just to keep all the engineered modules and the the special ones (some before engenerring has changed,
some of them are community-goal missions-rewards.
It´s time to sell or put all these storage-ship into the trash-compactor. On the other hand we dont have to waste so much time, sorting and finding modules anymore.
I for myself have almost 20 storage-ships, full with engineered modules. Its a mess ... and i am not alone. We are many ... !


FDEV you are the only ones who can help us ... ;-)

I've always been struck by the fact that if I buy FC I also have a 200 stock size. How can that be? Doesn't make sense to me.
There were a lot of suggestions like, make the size larger when buying FC, introduce an additional service on FC to increase the size of the stock of modules.

 

[SergMx]

No matter what the module limit is set to, people will hit it. Buy ships and put the modules you want to store on them. Then name the ship something to help find the modules in it, when you later need to find something

I have a bunch of T10s, Anacondas, Corvettes, and Cutters bought under stock.
The main problem is not finding equipment (it can be tracked through Inara) but having to move modules from the ship to the warehouse and back and then clean the warehouse of E modules .