REMOVE the module storage limit
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I don't like it either, but when FC come in I don't think it would bother me anymore
Why does it have to be gamebreaking to get a tweak, very few other issues that have received a balance pass had to pass this rationale?
At one time it went up significantly then many of us lost dozens of fully engineered modules through the storage retraction.
I have 30 ships. With 120 storage slots that gives me 4 alt slots per ship.
I can only buy storage ships by scrapping a ship i have already built which seems silly.
Without fleet management tools refitting a ship for an alt purpose can be a pain, swapping back and forth between ships many times.
The only ways to solve this are fleet tools or more storage.
How much more? Imo the more the better.
Okay, but no one is forcing you to have 30 ships, which I would envisage are all different because why would you have the same ships if storage is such a problem. And please define how much is 'more' is it 150, 250, 500? Read my post above, the one where I suggest the limit be set to well 'unlimited' because whatever limit FD sets someone will reach it and complain.
I realize no one is forcing me to have 30 ships.
But FD created these ships for us to buy, use and collect as part of just playing the game.
With the amount and size range of modules used in any ship , the amount of different activities available to do and the range of engineering options that can can be applied to each type and size, 4 alts per ship requires mucho juggling to change activity focus for any of my ships.
If you add powerplay collectibles and special effects to the equasion it gets even more difficult.
I have no firm number in mind, as i said the more the better.
Either that or give us fleet management tools so i can swap out multiple modules from multiple other ships without leaving the ship im trying to refit.
But FD created these ships for us to buy, use and collect as part of just playing the game.
With the amount and size range of modules used in any ship , the amount of different activities available to do and the range of engineering options that can can be applied to each type and size, 4 alts per ship requires mucho juggling to change activity focus for any of my ships.
If you add powerplay collectibles and special effects to the equasion it gets even more difficult.
I have no firm number in mind, as i said the more the better.
Either that or give us fleet management tools so i can swap out multiple modules from multiple other ships without leaving the ship im trying to refit.
Way back when Sandro flipped a coin on a livestream & asked the audience whether to double or half the module storage limit I'm pretty sure I was the only one that said half, I was against module storage.
But now that it's been in the game a long time, although personally I don't use it for anything much, I have seen descriptions of how others use it for swapping out weapons & other engineered modules depending on the role in their squadron or wing they need to perform in that session.
I thought an obvious solution would be to have lots of hulls all kitted out differently & ready to go, but the number of permutations make that impractical, so module storage it is & my view on it was changed. The OP makes a reasonable request, and there is no real gameplay in limiting how many modules can be stored when it is already this high (120iirc).
Which leaves any practical limitation (eg of the game engine or storage space). So assuming the number cannot be infinite, how big is big enough for any eventuality? 1024? 2048?
But now that it's been in the game a long time, although personally I don't use it for anything much, I have seen descriptions of how others use it for swapping out weapons & other engineered modules depending on the role in their squadron or wing they need to perform in that session.
I thought an obvious solution would be to have lots of hulls all kitted out differently & ready to go, but the number of permutations make that impractical, so module storage it is & my view on it was changed. The OP makes a reasonable request, and there is no real gameplay in limiting how many modules can be stored when it is already this high (120iirc).
Which leaves any practical limitation (eg of the game engine or storage space). So assuming the number cannot be infinite, how big is big enough for any eventuality? 1024? 2048?
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To be fair, currently there is no proper way of browsing the stored modules other than scrolling through the endless list of stored junk.
A proper store like interface, where you can pick if it's a weapon, armor, shield generator etc would make sense and would already be a big upgrade in QoL.
You can sort them, although it's not that intuitive. I have mine sorted by ascending module size.
Same.
But once you get to size 4 or smaller, it's a goHappy mix of weapons, optional modules, etc, it just gets worse the smaller it gets.
I think an increase in the storage limit might be nice. though I'm only at about 50% myself, it would be good not to have to worry about the limit. I tend to strip down any ship I'm not planning to use for a bit, but I've stopped doing that now. It was nice to have any useful modules to hand and ready, but now I'm forced to swap ships, remove what I need, and swap back again. That's plain clunky.
Ideally, I'd like to see a generally better system all together. Something I think would be really nice (at least for me) would be the ability to create sub folders of stuff, rather than just one long list. I'm not one for buying multiples of one ship for different loadouts, rather I outfit a single ship as needed. I've love to be able to have a storage folder named "Corvette Stuff" for example, or another labelled "Utility Modules" etc. you get the idea. Just a better way to manage stuff as it's pretty horrible at the moment, even if I do only have 60 ish modules.
I do have a load of experiments - i.e. modules I've engineered but they've not worked as expected. However, I can't bring myself to just sell them as I put a lot of materials into them. I wish we had a "recycle" option to get at least some of the materials back.
Scoob.
Ideally, I'd like to see a generally better system all together. Something I think would be really nice (at least for me) would be the ability to create sub folders of stuff, rather than just one long list. I'm not one for buying multiples of one ship for different loadouts, rather I outfit a single ship as needed. I've love to be able to have a storage folder named "Corvette Stuff" for example, or another labelled "Utility Modules" etc. you get the idea. Just a better way to manage stuff as it's pretty horrible at the moment, even if I do only have 60 ish modules.
I do have a load of experiments - i.e. modules I've engineered but they've not worked as expected. However, I can't bring myself to just sell them as I put a lot of materials into them. I wish we had a "recycle" option to get at least some of the materials back.
Scoob.
My solution as well. I was just about to sell that Cutter. Now I consider buying a couple more. I still have room for 10 of those.
I can understand your intent Commander but the old Logistician in me (my military trade) can't quite comprehend the problem. I understand the bit about doing a lot of experiments with modules, I think we have all done that at some stage. I just can't think of a viable reason to keep something I know I will never use, or at most, have an extremely low chance of ever using. Yes, you invested time and mats for these modules, fully agree with that. But until FD comes up with a way we can at least get the mats back on sale, they are really just dust collectors, never to be used.
My home system is Cubeo. Three very large starports. Solution is simple: Take some of your suffs and put it in station number 2. When full, do the same in station number 3. Three piles of stuffs, one star system. If you really, really need that much stuffs, you have too much stuffs.
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Is it that easy? Damn, here I am thinking that limit is a game-wide limit, not a station limit. Not that it would change anything with me, I think the most modules I have ever stored is around 80 odd but if you can store 140 modules per location, what the hell are people complaining about?
You get 120 total, not per station.
I mean . . . Those all sound pretty good to me. Maybe there are waves upon waves of new players becoming successively fed up with the same conspicuously missing features and design oversights, and then “helpfully” posting their suggestions on these forums without reading half a decade of archived posting and non-response on the topics? You know, because they can’t wrap their heads around something as basic as this being as broken as it is for any reason other than no-one has thought to ask for a change?
I feel your pain as I have been engineering a lot recently and keep bouncing off mine as well. Higher capacity and the ability to sort by type would be great.
Agreed. Organization is more important than capacity. With a better UI/UX we would have been fine with the old 60 module cap. As it stands, you could double it to 240 tomorrow and people are going to have all the same problems eventually.
People as a rule hate inventory management in games, but usually it’s because the interfaces are so clunky and opaque. Elite is a particularly extreme offender in this area.
