Slow transfer of fluids from inventory to storage tanks.

[DabbyWonder]

Currently it takes an excessively long time to transfer fluids from your inventory to a storage tank. This becomes a serious problem when you want to re-arrange your fluid storage areas. The only option you have is to make connections with conveyor belts, which isn't always easy or possible, or wait a very long time for thousands of units of fluid to slowly go from your inventory to the tank. Neither is a good solution. Hopefully this is something you can address in a forthcoming patch. I think simply making the transfer instantaneous would suffice, but i'm open to other options as well. Thank you and have a nice day

[Quickhand69er]

Use a storage container to put your inventory in and then use that to fill your tank.

[DabbyWonder]

that's still unnecessarily slow, you don't have to do that with any other item than fluids. It's just a little QOL thing i think should be in the game. At least the option for it

[margalus]

Yes, fluid containers should be instant with a <ctrl> click just like the regular storage containers. It is very annoying to say the least holding your mouse button over the little window for what seems like 5 minutes waiting for it all to transfer...

[Elgareth]

I just use normal storage chests for fluids as well. Massive amounts of stored liquids serve no purpose for me, as either I produce enough to satisfy consumption, or I don't produce enough, and any amount of stored liquids will run out sooner or later.
I don't see any upside to using fluid tanks at the moment.

[pat]

Originally posted by Elgareth:

I don't see any upside to using fluid tanks at the moment.

There are a few benefits, especially earlier in the game. They hold a lot. Plus, you can run the belts directly in and out of them, eliminating the need for sorters. They can act as rudimentary splitters.

[McC1oud]

I don't quite understand what you are doing. You are trying to pick up liquids and move them by hand? Just belt them out to the other tank. Liquids can also be completely abandoned because they are infinite, your new storage tanks will fill back up naturally. Also storage tanks are to be treated as buffers, not the purpose of the liquid output. You should be consuming the liquids faster than they are entering the storage tank and if they aren't, then you shouldn't be concerned about moving the liquid that you currently have to a new storage location because it's going to fill up naturally.

[DabbyWonder]

None of that helps when you're trying to re arrange your set up and get stuck with liquid in your inventory. As far as just abandoning it because it's infinite, well that's just silly on the face of it, hydrogen is a liquid and very finite early game.

[Bobucles]

Early game fluids are a bit messy. The tech tree quickly bounces ingredients between high and low demand and it's not worth rebuilding every time. Ride the wave with a few buffer tanks. Stack up brown oil while using early hydrogen, and stack up hydrogen while building sulfur/crystals. It all evens out in the end.

Early game fluid stacks can be cleaned up with blue belts and logi towers. Or just spill them on the ground and let them vanish, all fluid types have unlimited reserves anyway.

[Smashing]

Something you can do if you already have the storage tanks in the place you want to move to, you can hold down to grab the liquids but then don't put them in your inventory, just keep them held at your mouse cursor. You can hold as much as you want then just go over to where you want to drop them off and empty. Still a slow process but avoids the capacity issue of your inventory.

Be careful though, if you accidentally deselect it you will have liquids everywhere and it will take ages to scoop it all up again.

[margalus]

Originally posted by Smashing:

Something you can do if you already have the storage tanks in the place you want to move to, you can hold down to grab the liquids but then don't put them in your inventory, just keep them held at your mouse cursor. You can hold as much as you want then just go over to where you want to drop them off and empty. Still a slow process but avoids the capacity issue of your inventory.

Be careful though, if you accidentally deselect it you will have liquids everywhere and it will take ages to scoop it all up again.

The whole point though is the speed, not capacity. There is no reason to have liquids so slow while every other item in the game is instant.

[Smashing]

Originally posted by margalus:

The whole point though is the speed, not capacity. There is no reason to have liquids so slow while every other item in the game is instant.

I know and I agree it should be instant. I'm just saying for those who don't know at present it is possible to transfer huge quantities in 1 trip rather than taking out roughly how many can fit in your inventory, moving, unloading, going back and repeating. If you are talking fluid quantities in 1000's, that could take a lot of trips. It's possible to do it in 1 trip, which may be a small time saver for anyone looking at doing that.