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Discussions => Newcomers corner => Topic started by: Zaelkaer "Allfather" Vampyre on January 17, 2013, 02:01:23 am
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I really need some storage advice on how to organize my stuff. My main storage is Saransk, my secondary storage is New Urengoy.
How should i all my stuff? I do have containers, so consider that when giving your suggestions.
Here is what i can think of as categories of "stuff" - using wiki to help me in labeling.
Resources
1. Botanic
2. Extracted stone
3. Metal
4. Mineral
5. Rock stone
Then there are all/most of the above, in refined states. (and some resources can be refined a 2nd time with a new result)
Refined Resources
Then there's mixed resources
Then there is Loot
Loot
1. Animal
2. Mutant
3. Robot
(thats the way i saw it, but wiki defines loot more definite)
animal parts, backpack, batteries, cable, computer parts, cyborg parts, electronic parts, machine parts, mechanic parts, mutant parts, protection data chips
Then there's cd's
mpfs, asps, ccds, (with all the different categories)(Tools, Armor, Weapons, Clothing)
Then there's components
And there's also SNI's, some skills are being used, some skills are being chipped out
And there might be more.. I've always managed to keep my stuff in some sort of order, but its getting harder to keep track of it, and its not as organized as i would like it to be. Please help me! :) There's storage slots A through E, how do you have your storage set up? I do a bit of everything, so I'll have a bit of everything.
The Allfather
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Here's what i'm thinking...
Slot A
Raw Materials
Slot B
Refined Materials
Mixed Materials
Slot C
Loot
Slot D
CDs
Components
Slot E
Items
SNI
Miscellaneus
Then there's also the top storage, which I generally don't use for anything.
I'm going to start organizing my storage like above, but think it would be great to hear more from older players.
The Allfather
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Although my sreenie was taken in Alpha...same concept for here, just more space. The item underneath the container tells me what's in the container. Hope this helps.
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I really need some storage advice on how to organize my stuff.
Think everybody has his own choice
how is the best Sorting for himself.
If have many Containers it can help
coloring at least a few of them (or if
have enough space left to place 1gr
above every Container)
Every open placed Resource is max.
1 Stack (if have more it went into a
Container bottom placed)
Because a Picture say more then a
thousand words: Small Screenshot
added to show Example.
Greetings - Zwarky
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Top Slot (Empty)
Need for splitting, sorting, ...
Slot "A" (Crafting)
8 Container with ASP/MFP/CDD
1 Container Alloys
Rivets
Medical Parts
Item Parts
Crafted Items
Additional Containers (Batteries)
Slot "B" (Loot)
Mechanical Loot (Shank, Spring)
Electronical Loot (Cable, Transistor, ...)
Additional Containers (Gasmask, Prot Chip)
Slot "C" (Loot)
Water
Animal/Mutant Loot (raw+refined)
Wool/Hide (raw+refined)
Flesh/Meat (raw+refined)
Additional Containers (Taming Deed/Puppy/Kitty)
Slot "D" (Mining)
Unrefined picked Mineral
Unrefined picked Metal
Unrefined Wood
Unrefined mined Mineral (sorted yellow/green/red)
Unrefined mined Metal (sorted yellow/green/red)
Unrefined mined Crystal
Additonal Container (Common Slag)
Slot "E" (Mining)
Residue (Slag/Scob)
Refined picked Mineral
Refined picked Metal
Refined Wood
Refined mined Crystal
Refined mined Mineral (sorted yellow/green/red)
Refined mined Metal (sorted yellow/green/red)
Additional Containers (Full Stacks of Everything)
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Thank you very much. Although I probably will not copy the exact format, it helps give me a better idea. So far I already am looking much cleaner than before, "sort of" following the format i said i was going to. When i finish, i'll look back to here and see if I want to change anything.
The Allfather
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Forgot to mention, I have mine set up to make crafting easier. Everybody's different though. I don't have my animal and mutant loot mixed with robot loot. I keep the blood and guts together while robot loot has it's own slot along with the endless supply of batteries, lol. I keep all stones...steel/diamonds/pickable/extracted raw and refined in same slot.
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Boxes with custom icon the front would be great. Also custom names for boxes.
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My organization pattern using small inventory icons (six columns of spaces):
Slot A - Animal and Mutant parts (20 rows)
- Unrefinable parts at the top - testas, spider claws, extremities, fangs, feelers, and blood from soft to durable, separated by animal/mutant
- Refinable parts next - tendons, teeth, brains, bile, wool, hides, and meat, separated by animal/mutant with refined amounts directly below unrefined amounts
- Logs and flowers - sorted alphabetically to make it easier to find which log I'm looking for, with refined amounts directly below unrefined amounts and scobs and charcoal beneath boards
Slot B - Picking and underground mining resources (62 rows)
- Metals and minerals, sorted alphabetically (not separated by metal/mineral type) with unrefined amounts (even for multiple stacks) followed by refined amounts (even for multiple stacks) going from left to right and down
- Alloys, sorted alphabetically from left to right
- Nano-alloys, sorted alphabetically from left to right
- Metal slag
- Common slag
Slot C - Robot parts (80 rows)
- Oil (unrefined and refined) and water (unrefined and refined, sorted by refining stage) at the top
- Electrical parts - cables, CPUs, LCDs, and mainboards, sorted by color; ECSs, capacitors, transistors, e-devices, RAM, Oscillators, unblocking chips, and protection chips, sorted by number
- Mechanical parts - scanner and extractor parts, and gun parts, sorted by type, color, or number
- Batteries - En-Cel, then SimEng, sorted by number, then number of repairs (most in boxes to conserve space)
- 0/0% batteries, unsorted
Slot D - Weapons crafting (59 rows)
- Melee weapon ASPs & MFPs, one of each dagger/sword/other, sorted by lowest to highest skill requirements
- Scope & Rifle ASPs & MFPs, one of each rifle, sorted by lowest to highest skill requirements
- Boxes containing extra melee weapons ASPs & MFPs, then extra rifle ASPs & MFPs, sorted the same way
- Crafted melee and rifle components for later use
- 0/0% rifles and melee weapons, sorted by lowest to highest skill requirements
Slot E - Tool & armor crafting (75 rows)
- Steel Pick, Steel Axe, & Hedging-bill MT ASPs & MFPs, one of each
- HK ASPs & MFPs, one of each, sorted from highest to lowest skill requirements
- Metal scanner & extractor ASPs & MFPs, one of each, sorted from lowest to highest skill requirements
- Clothing ASPs & MFPs, one of each, sorted from lowest to highest crafting skill requirements
- Armor CDDs & ASPs, sorted from highest to lowest protection
- Gas masks, mostly in boxes
- Crafted tool components for later use
- 0/0% tools, armor, and MFPs, not really sorted
Top section (15 rows, plus several blank rows) - Crafted final items for later use, extra ammo and boxes, and miscellaneous items that haven't been sorted into lower slots yet
At some point I'll put more things into boxes (especially 0/0% items) but for now it works pretty well for me.
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Thank you very much Brickwit. I'm sure this topic might prove useful to other people as well, but at least for me it helps. An organized storage can go a long ways with making crafting easier.
The Allfather
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hey,
.....some of my personal advices for stor settings
- colours r exelent to set boxes by content
- few item component to set the content of each box can be place near each one in order to know what is inside each
- we have 5 slots each can be divided by - A ( Secret Slot - skills / others )
- B ( Hunting Loot ) each loot from killing mobs animal/mutant
- C ( Electronics Loot ) each loot from killing robots
- D ( Crafting Slot ) each box whit his content for crafting including CD's / complex craft
- E ( Item Slot) each box whit the resoult of crafting , final item
....the colors r for each slot same so
- Black r for mutant/animal loot ( i will change it whit something else later ..lazy )
- Red for mining including electronics who r part of the mining gear and stones who r resoult of mining activity anywhere C,D or E
- Claret r the melee things anywhere in my stor D or E
- Cherry r the rifle stuffs anywhere in stor
- Black r the armors
- Navy r the alloy
- Blue r "trees"
- Turquaise r the textiles
- Green r medical stuffs
any other combo of color can be added to meet the request of each and everyone
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Boxes with custom icon the front would be great. Also custom names for boxes.
OH BABY YES. Even if the icon was that of the item in the first slot of the box.
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Great Idea dale :)
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Thank you Hultaan, I have not thought of that yet :)
I like it very much, i hope you don't mind if i follow that system.
If i have more questions i'll pm you them.
The Allfather
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hehe lol,
yes u can use my system, that is why i place the screens , in case u find something good ,
and glad to help as always
cheers^^
Hult
edit note: i have all minerals metals alloys placed alphabeticaly like in research terminal ( blank spaces r for the missing ones) and for the riffles melees i have a diff order, riffles as exemple r not arranged by skill rate as some do, because r in order for craft not for use so r each box for each tipe of weapon, B&V / Grom / Kashtan / Kulak and is logical cause those tipe of guns use few MFP as same part, as for melee u can place them for one single row, usualy they need 1ASP/2-3MFP, armors r simple vertical rows as they r 9 parts r 9 slots in each vertical arrangement....enjoy
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The use of boxes certainly cleans things up at first sight but I think it would be less efficient for me. The coloring helps with categorizing what's in the boxes, but with so many different types of loot in each category it would still be a hassle to have to look through several boxes of a single color to find a particular item. If you're consistent you can get better at knowing which box has which parts but as the number of loot items increases (as it surely will), you'd need more and more boxes to hold it all since they only hold 50 stacks. Of course, there are plenty of hints that there might be boxes that can hold more than 50 stacks too...
Still, I've found keeping items immediately visible by slot makes crafting as quick and easy as I can get it at this stage. The only downside is if I forget about a particular group of resources that, based on the organizational pattern, needs to go in the middle of the slot. When that has happened in the past I've had to spend a bunch of time dragging everything further down the slot, one stack/item at a time. That's no fun at all, let me tell you.
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Is it possible to have a box in a box? Haven't tried this yet...
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Sadly, No :/
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always good to have storage set up a good way :)
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BUMP
because I have received many private messages regarding this post whit storage organizer I add this thread up, ty those for choosing my personal model , always glad to help, and for further questions don't hesitate to ask,
cheers
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Interesting thread, somehow missed it the 1st time. There's a little bit of a collector in everyone of us... until it gets boring and u wanna throw the whole damn storage out of the window! lol
My ore/mineral tab starts with alloys, then pickable stones (iron lead nitre etc), and ends with the 338 stuff (caperium vestum sitt) down at the bottom. Keyword: "arranged into groups by frequency".
Horizontally it's like this (left to right): 1) unrefined ore 2) the same ore refined 3) unrefined mineral 4) the same mineral refined (i'm using the oldschool "big icons" view, so 4 icons in a row).
Tried it many different ways, finally settled with that one cause no need to scroll up and down for each stack when u arrive from a mining run and empty all those different extractors - yellow, green and red. Same general logic applies to crafting as well - usually each item requires ores from the same frequency group.
If i sell some ore i leave 1gr as a placeholder.
If i get something more than 1 stack it goes away (special ore boxes area... but it's a whole different story, i better won't go into this here :) ).