Puffy liquid storage

[hektor]

I hate it...

I know that CoI is not the first or last to do it, but I really hate it. Why not a choice between puffy or meter?

[Slye_Fox]

Puffy?

[hektor]

It puffs up and down depending on how much is in it.

[Synical]

The current design was used so it's easier to tell at a glance how full the storage is. Same reason the solid storages have shelves on the side with product.

[Kaery]

Meters would need to be on four sides to account for camera rotation and expanding storages like this are in use in reality as well, especially for large scale storage.

Personally, I quite like these. Yes, it sometimes looks silly going up and down rapidly, but unlike with the unit storages, where I have to zoom in to see the shelves better, with these, I can tell from halfway across the map.

[rallyevr6]

Its based on real world Gas storage units called "gasometers" aren't they? They literally go up and down based on how much is stored in them. Not seen much these days, but towns in the UK (at least) used to have them all over the place.

So to answer the Q, seeing as they are Gasometers, they are both "puffy" and Meters.

[hektor]

Publicado originalmente por Synical:

The current design was used so it's easier to tell at a glance how full the storage is. Same reason the solid storages have shelves on the side with product.

So why doesn't all storage do it? Aren't the shelves on the side the same as a gauge?
Maybe everything in the game should expand and contract depending on utilization?
I for one am tired of this liquid storage hegemony.

[hektor]

I drive by refineries all the time and I have never seen a deflated mega tank.

[MetalSpaceDust]

I love them just the way they are.

[Slye_Fox]

I like the gasometer design, I used to see them regularly on my way to school.

[hektor]

Publicado originalmente por MetalSpaceDust:

I love them just the way they are.

There should be an option to not have your facility look like a bouncy castle farm.

[Pyroteknikid]

Publicado originalmente por hektor:

Publicado originalmente por MetalSpaceDust:

I love them just the way they are.

There should be an option to not have your facility look like a bouncy castle farm.

I want them to look like the waving inflatable tube men at used car lots.

[Gage]

There is a type of floating roof that does react similar to what we see in game but they only raise 10 to 15' and are mostly used for vapor recovery. The actual name of these roofs escapes me at the moment. My company actually has one of these in Denver. they would have done better to make a straight up EFR tank in game, they would look more like what you see normally at refineries

[Xenomorph Kitty]

Publicado originalmente por hektor:

I drive by refineries all the time and I have never seen a deflated mega tank.

Just because you've never seen them, doesn't mean they don't exist. They're still quite common in the UK.

What a nonsense complaint. Go away.

[Kaery]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Gasometer_Gasflaschen.jpg/800px-Gasometer_Gasflaschen.jpg

There's a picture of a almost full one and a close to empty one side by side.

[hektor]

Publicado originalmente por Kaery:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Gasometer_Gasflaschen.jpg/800px-Gasometer_Gasflaschen.jpg

There's a picture of a almost full one and a close to empty one side by side.

That looks like a Soviet era abandoned amusement park.

Here is how to tank like a boss...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Big_Spring_Refinery_%28Big_Spring%2C_Texas%2C_USA%29_1_%2848917011762%29.jpg/1920px-Big_Spring_Refinery_%28Big_Spring%2C_Texas%2C_USA%29_1_%2848917011762%29.jpg