What am I supposed to do with all of this data?

Red Martian

Red Martian
My data storage is full. Packed. Overflowing, really. I know it can be used for Engineering, but the method by which it is stored is deeply flawed. Why does my computer have less storage space than an Apple II? The limits on all of this just seem so arbitrary. Cargo space, passenger space, that makes sense. A navigation computer than can only hold a hundred bookmarks, a data storage computer that holds 500 pieces of data, and a materials processor that can only contain 1000 pieces of information. My $12 cell phone from Walmart trounces these systems on every level. There's no expandable memory in the future? We lost the ability to store data outside of the computer core?

It gets annoying because there are missions that you can't complete unless you accept data, and so I have to go in and delete files I hope won't be valuable so I can just finish the stupid mission. I do have the option to delete all of it, but that seems stupid considering the value it supposedly has, and this data can't be transferred because reasons, I mean, seriously, who designed this system?
 
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Goblin949

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But it keeps all the nav data, how all those dots are moving in time and space! And trade info where you've been! And factions and your rep with them! These are far more larger and more important than some stupid junk noise of unknown size engineers want for some reason. And I suppose this storage was added to ships exactly by these very talented persons.
 

Cmdr Ultra

Cmdr Ultra
Yeah you're a couple years too late with your complaint caller.

It will be fixed in the next patch at the end of Beta. Somebody else tell her how many storage slots per item we are getting as I can't remember.
 

Spandexxx

Spandexxx
Coloratura said:
Why does my computer have less storage space than an Apple II?
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How do you know how much space a distorted shield cycle recording takes up? It might be a gigantic file!

But yeah, you should definitely be able to store more. Is a bit of a PITA. Especially when farming for one of the engineers. I know we're getting more materials storage soon. Not sure on the data?
 

Spacecat

Spacecat
Oh, that's the least of it. Why do I need 6 cracked industrial firmware for my 6 multicannons? Can't you just make copies?
 

Stealthie

Stealthie
Coloratura said:
It gets annoying because there are missions that you can't complete unless you accept data, and so I have to go in and delete files I hope won't be valuable so I can just finish the stupid mission. I do have the option to delete all of it, but that seems stupid considering the value it supposedly has, and this data can't be transferred because reasons, I mean, seriously, who designed this system?
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Umm, you know you don't have to delete material-data to make space for mission-data, right?
Even if you're doing, say, planetary scan missions, you can still scan the data-points and complete the mission. You just won't collect the material-data that the data-point tries to give you.

As a rule, I ruthlessly cull all the G1 and G2 material-data.
Keep half a dozen of each and bin the rest.
If you need 'em, it's easy to find more.
 

Lucifera Danzig

Lucifera Danzig
One of the biggest things people don't consider is "how big are the data files, really?" The firmware for an iphone (yes, the OS in your iPhone is classified "firmware") is 2.75 GB as of version 11.2.5. That's kinda huge, and that's just for an early 21st century cell phone.
 

GreyAreaUK

GreyAreaUK
Stealthie said:
Coming to the forum soon: "I need more mat' storage 'cos I want to be able to engineer my entire ship in one go. It's just a QoL thing..."

Slippery slope, I tells ya'.
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Joking aside, it may well be that mat and data storage does​ need a tweak upwards from 100 to 150 or 200, given that we now have to engineer every new module from G1. But we'll see.
 

Arthur Shappey

Arthur Shappey
Coloratura said:
My data storage is full. Packed. Overflowing, really. I know it can be used for Engineering, but the method by which it is stored is deeply flawed. Why does my computer have less storage space than an Apple II? ...
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It's a game. It makes no real world sense at all, just as it makes no sense that you can hold 100 materials on your body [surviving the destruction of your spaceship] and not have blisters, muscle ache all over and severe blood poisoning from arsenic...

If this were real computer data, then once Felicity had found a Datamined Wake Exception that gave a 60% optimal mass lift, she would just use duplicates of that particular data for ever more.

The new system is more convenient, game wise, but even more illogical.

Are you really saying you've only just noticed this? Because this sort of "game logic" is deeply woven into the fabric of every element of this game except for the galactic simulation...
 

GreyAreaUK

GreyAreaUK
Arthur Shappey said:
It's a game. It makes no real world sense at all, just as it makes no sense that you can hold 100 materials on your body [surviving the destruction of your spaceship] and not have blisters, muscle ache all over and severe blood poisoning from arsenic...
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Heh. The physical mats in Elite (iron, zinc etc) obviously have the same phase-shift that gold did in Skyrim.

At the end I was carrying so much gold in Skyrim that I should have been generating my own gravitational field. castles should have collapsed when I walked by.
 
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