Help: Storage limitations - The End is near!

[Xandra]

Hi,

once, back in the good old days, we had a limit of 500 items/ stacks in our storage, and it was regarded good and sufficient by the most part of the community. For the evil hoarders among us there are storage boxes, acknowledged and welcome. Meanwhile, we can even use multiple vehicles for it - even better!

But the Entropian Universe has changed. New items have been discovered, for instance the stones, all the refiners, the tiering items. Quite a lot!

And new Planets have been found, every one with an own set of additional items. At this point it started to become rather close for any participant. The number of items to be looted, collected, stored has grown by a multiple - but we still have the dreaded 500 slots limit.

And now there's a new profession - Treasure hunting. A large variation of new items to be looted, collected and stored! But the storage space runs low. Too many different items, by far not enough slots in the storage to keep them all until a stack size has been reached to make selling an option.

The game mechanics have been changed a lot, the number of different items in the game has exploded, but our storage hasn't changed.

So I kindly ask to support my petition regarding storage space:

Please, MA, adjust the 500 slot limit in our storage according to the drastically risen number of new items!

Thank you! And feel free to express your opinion!

Have a good time!

(PS: Copy of this thread on EP.)

PPS: This poll is public, others may see how you have voted. Beware!

Appendum:
I made a mistake formulating the poll question. I didn't think of that the best way at all wouldn't be a simple multiplying of the limiting number, but more a complete overhaul of the storage system, respecting the current number of items available ... So,
"Yes, more slots, or better a new system, would be so much desired!"
would be what would have been the better question.

[Neil Stockton]

I voted yes. The number of items only increases each time a planet partner brings out new stuff. But I think the storage and inventory system needs more than just an increase in capacity. It should be searchable, sortable, and organizable... and other features to modernize it and make finding and organizing items less of a headache. And don't forget the need to "lock" items so they cannot be accidentally TT'd, dropped, or traded.

[Dave Stevens]

Just to point out that storage is 500 per planet, that means with 5 planets, you have 2,500 storage.

[Kitten]

on 2 planets I am out of storage space just from the crystals and treasures added in O.o please more space! or tab separate storage just like inventory that would ROCK

[narfi]

Originally Posted by Dave Stevens

Just to point out that storage is 500 per planet, that means with 5 planets, you have 2,500 storage.

Calypso, FOMA, CP, Rocktropia, Hell, Hunt The Thing, Next Island, Greece (does greece have storage?,) Arkadia, Cyrene.

Thats 9 planets(including mini-planets) for 4500 slots.

I just checked and I've got 2013 items :/

Even with the 3 storage's available to me on the planet I am on most of the time (Rocktropia) it doesn't have nearly enough storage for what I have.

Pitbulls and Boats are a majority of my storage, but its really hard to keep everything sorted :/

I would like to see 1k or even 2k limits per storage, but maybe it would cause bad lag when opening them, I don't know.

for now I'm just dealing with it,

narfi

[KikkiJikki]

We all know there is no actual limit at 500 items, it's just the gui interface has issues and so some items aren't visible.

Even when you aren't over the 500 item mark its a pain to find the item you want by visually searching or mousing over each item - all caly plates are identical in appearance and I cant remember what each type of leather extractor looks like.

Right now I use umpteen storage boxes because I have bp for small box. And its a pain in the bum to open each one until I find the armour I am after, or the weapons box. Am trying to texture or colour code them but my memory isnt that good yet. Have just bought a bunch of limited caly bp books to try nd get my bps under control. Even with those you cant just open the book to see whats there because, owing to the sorting of the index, the first page in the index is often empty slots. Materials used for crafting stay out of boxes because it would just add too much time to go hunting through each container for each item I want.

IMO the way forward it to implement a list based interface with a search function. You still need to be able to drag and drop items though.

[Rapido]

There is also apartments to use as storage, ofc they are not so cheap to buy and you lock a lots of peds by buying them

And about boxes, lets us be able to put a namn on them for easy finding the right one

Rapido

[mastermesh]

Originally Posted by KikkiJikki

We all know there is no actual limit at 500 items, it's just the gui interface has issues and so some items aren't visible.

Even when you aren't over the 500 item mark its a pain to find the item you want by visually searching or mousing over each item - all caly plates are identical in appearance and I cant remember what each type of leather extractor looks like.

Right now I use umpteen storage boxes because I have bp for small box. And its a pain in the bum to open each one until I find the armour I am after, or the weapons box. Am trying to texture or colour code them but my memory isnt that good yet. Have just bought a bunch of limited caly bp books to try nd get my bps under control. Even with those you cant just open the book to see whats there because, owing to the sorting of the index, the first page in the index is often empty slots. Materials used for crafting stay out of boxes because it would just add too much time to go hunting through each container for each item I want.

IMO the way forward it to implement a list based interface with a search function. You still need to be able to drag and drop items though.

I too have a bunch of apartments and boxes in them... I mainly use resettlement containers. Putting books in boxes can be a pain, I agree, but it does allow you to store a heck of a lot of bps.

Not 100% helpful since it lists estates as estates no matter where the estate is, which is really MA's fault, not the site, but check out tree view:

http://x1z.net/EU/

Helps enormously in organization and knowing where things are for me, especially if your storage boxes are different types, etc, or if you mark them in various ways... say put one dung in one box, one fruit in another, one lyst in a third, etc., so that you'll know oh yes, this blueprint is in the same box as the lyst, etc. Another way might be to just have different types of boxes... one resettlement container, one purse, one medium box, etc. so that each container has a different name and tree view will tell you what is where.

[KikkiJikki]

I agree there are various ways to work around the ridiculous limitation on storage. They are all annoying and tedious.

Regards,
KikkiJikki

[Kitten]

Even give a bar at the top for picking storage 1/2/3 for each planet would be awesome and keep load times down from just loading one at a time