Any tips on setting up a clearing house sector?

[EratikStorm]

So I am trying to set up a warehouse sector where I have large storage for all of the various resources. I have my shipping coming in from my space sector, and then moving to the warehouse, but the way the trade works with the "max" value having to be so high in my warehouse I cannot seem to get the resources to flow to a sector with a smaller demand. Maybe I am doing something wrong with the priorities? Any ideas?

I suppose I could add the docks to the warehouse sector and only have cargo ships there, but that is the only option I have been able to figure out.

[utilityguy]

The largest problem with this idea is that there is no way to automate Relay deliveries between sectors, besides just building Drones that will do the sorting work for you--and drones are a pretty late game technology (Chapter 3 at its most reasonably earliest).

Maybe I can see you doing a Warehouse sector where it's a Cargo Sector for all your cargo ships, as that way all your resources can get sorted and taken to whatever sectors that are needed. But outside of that option, a Warehouse sector will only make it so that you need to do some extra manual micro in remembering to check up on that sector every so-minutes in order to change the desired capacity levels in the Trade Screen.

[EratikStorm]

Yah, that is the issue I am running into. I am in chapter 3 and have my drones working up, so that might be the option. I was hoping there was something I was missing. Oh well, I guess there is an opportunity for game optimization if there will be further support.

[Flashand]

i set the smaller sector to a min and the larger sector to half that way it is able to send half its store out

[Burnin Prograde]

Based on the sector trade system it seems the best way to do this is to have the cargo ships docked in the warehouse district

[Rithrin]

Originally posted by Burnin Prograde:

Based on the sector trade system it seems the best way to do this is to have the cargo ships docked in the warehouse district

Correct. Resource production needs to be located in the same sector as the main storage stockpile if you intend to export automatically without manual intervention.

Some lengthier explanation for OP if interested:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1113120/discussions/0/3720566578385795913/

[Påsan]

wait its normal to get warehouse districts? i just gave every sector a space bay, making them self sufficient on raw materials before refinement. then put 1 or 2 medium/big storages in the same sector to stockpile refined goods, set at 0 resource so it always export.

[Cardew_78]

I did the following. I got a T2 space sector with all my docs, a industry sector with a medium storage and the "Storage Sector".
There a 2 situations. 1) You are collecting ressources and 2) you use your stored goods.
During 1) open your space sectror trasfer panel and set it to 0. Then right of it change the priority to export to your industry sector to high. Set the industry sector to max -10 and the storage sector to max -10. Now, as long you as there are materials coming in, the industry sector will be topped off and the rest goes to the storage sectore.
When your get to 2) you have to set the storage sector to 0 and now the industry sector will get everythin from the storage sector.