An idea for finding things...

[Treveri]

How about we have a search box where we can enter an item, and ever storage box that have that item in it, flash for 10s.

Or the rays of god shine down from the darkness and light that chest.

Man I can't tell you how much time I've spent flying around trying to find that two assembler set up I have making X item and storing it in a box for that occasional use!

It's annoying as hell!

[Dog]

Just set up some drone stations and fly everything you tend to need to restock on all to one central location.

[umop-apisdn]

Originally posted by Treveri:

How about we have a search box where we can enter an item, and ever storage box that have that item in it, flash for 10s.

Or the rays of god shine down from the darkness and light that chest.

Man I can't tell you how much time I've spent flying around trying to find that two assembler set up I have making X item and storing it in a box for that occasional use!

It's annoying as hell!

Have you considered centralizing your storage? Move all your picker bins to a single location, so you can just find that one place and pick up whatever you're looking for. Belts are cheap, and planets are (relatively) small.

This is what YouTubers call a "mall", "hub", or "nexus", depending on who you're watching.

[Treveri]

Yeah, I have a those areas, and I have main belt-bus line ... but both are just band aids to the problem, they aren't even really fixes.

[thedoc31]

+1 agree. Just posted something similar in another thread.

[sbhink805]

I made a mistake of throwing a container down and putting a bunch of stuff in it real quick so I could check on supply at nearby volcanic planet. I put a ton of my research stations in there and then needed them and took me forever to find them again. What I do now is make the first item something that stands out to me as that's the icon you see.

But I'd love someway to be able to locate stuff.

[Treveri]

Originally posted by sbhink805:

I made a mistake of throwing a container down and putting a bunch of stuff in it real quick so I could check on supply at nearby volcanic planet. I put a ton of my research stations in there and then needed them and took me forever to find them again. What I do now is make the first item something that stands out to me as that's the icon you see.

But I'd love someway to be able to locate stuff.

I do that as well ...

I've pretty much put the game on hold. Its a fine game, I can't really complain about it ... but I just get tired of having to fly around trying to find stuff.

And I have to admit, I got to where you start building rings for power and that is just fricking tedious as hell, and if building the dyson sphere itself is anything like the rings ... I have no interest in that as an end game.

I'll go back to it some day but when I find myself looking at other RL things to do because I am finding the game boring (with the rings) ...

For now I'm farting around with Valheim and Evil Genius 2.

[jfullernz]

One way I've worked it is research districts. vertical stacking of a research matrix gives a great visible red/yellow/blue etc visible from a distance that can be used for a area, so you just need to remember which district your items are in.
i know its not a fix, but something Ive found useful to find my production lines.

[Treveri]

Originally posted by jfullernz:

One way I've worked it is research districts. vertical stacking of a research matrix gives a great visible red/yellow/blue etc visible from a distance that can be used for a area, so you just need to remember which district your items are in.
i know its not a fix, but something Ive found useful to find my production lines.

Look at us jumping through hoops to compensate for something that should be in the game. LOL!