Transfer ressources from outpost to ship

[bortas]

Well, is there a better, more efficient way to transfer tens of thousands of ressources from an outpost into the ship, other than cycling back and forth between the ship inventory and the transfer container inventory?

Unfortunatly the transfer container content doesn't seem to refresh without hitting Tab to go back to the ship view and enter the inventory again, which is kinda annoying, if you want to transfer a lot of stuff.

[Krash Megiddo]

I use the Transfer container as a catch-all box for all types of materials, but I could never figure how its used from my ship. Sitting in my ship, go to cargo, cycle to the outpost transfer box, click on a material and it thinks I want to store stuff instead of take it out. Clearly I'm missing something obvious here.

[bortas]

Originally posted by Krash Megiddo:

I use the Transfer container as a catch-all box for all types of materials, but I could never figure how its used from my ship.

I managed to get stuff out of it by going to the ship screen ('H' on PC), then to ship inventory from there ('F') and then cycle to the outpost inventory and take the stuff. It then goes directly into the ship inventory. So far so good.

What's bothering me is that I have to repeat that procedure a hundred times, if I want to tranfer ressource en masse.

[Krash Megiddo]

Originally posted by bortas:

Originally posted by Krash Megiddo:

I use the Transfer container as a catch-all box for all types of materials, but I could never figure how its used from my ship.

I managed to get stuff out of it by going to the ship screen ('H' on PC), then to ship inventory from there ('F') and then cycle to the outpost inventory and take the stuff. It then goes directly into the ship inventory. So far so good.

What's bothering me is that I have to repeat that procedure a hundred times, if I want to tranfer ressource en masse.

Since I haven't figured out how to take stuff from the transfer box while sitting in my ship. I go directly to the transfer box and any other box not connected to it and put what I need in my personal inventory. Then I dump it into my ship from the resources category, its one click for all of it. The transfer box SHOULD work the same way, one click to take it all.

[bspawn]

To use the transfer container to move stuff from outpost to ship inventory, the direction of container connections must be from storage containers to the cargo container, and to get access to the cargo container from the ship you must interact with the "cargo hold" display in the cockpit.

Many people use it the other way around which works well as long as you have enough storage container capacity, but that setup has the wrong direction of container connections for transferring from cargo container to ship.

However, the transfer container only gives access to resources that are inside the transfer container, and with many storage containers feeding into the cargo container it usually contains only a few different types of resources (or only one type) out of many that are connected to it, so it is of limited use for that purpose.

[spam]

It work great for offloading junk I've collected while adventuring. Gets everything into the appropriate type of bin with minimal fuss.

However, I've not found it practical for loading the ship. Since you can sprint even when overloaded It's actually faster to just get the material out of the bins and carry it to the ship. Additinally, in my case at least, i've needed to do that only a handful of times.

[Symfreddy]

Originally posted by bspawn:

To use the transfer container to move stuff from outpost to ship inventory, the direction of container connections must be from storage containers to the cargo container, and to get access to the cargo container from the ship you must interact with the "cargo hold" display in the cockpit.

Many people use it the other way around which works well as long as you have enough storage container capacity, but that setup has the wrong direction of container connections for transferring from cargo container to ship.

However, the transfer container only gives access to resources that are inside the transfer container, and with many storage containers feeding into the cargo container it usually contains only a few different types of resources (or only one type) out of many that are connected to it, so it is of limited use for that purpose.

Ideed !
As the connection orientation is a mess to debug, it's not so easy to use at all.
The maximum capacity of the transfert container is a non-sense. Because we don't know the ressource is loaded and once the transfert container is full (so quick !) you can't load the ressource you want from your ship. A real bottleneck. It's barelly usless in this state for big amount of ressources.

I have 40 large containers from 18 outposts (tip : 3 outposts side by side to simulate a big outpost). The container can hold 1500 from my memory. So 40x300 is so over full that we can't predict the result when you are in your cockpit. (And yes it's a big mess to collect all ressources to only one !!). This part is so unfinished and without goal, just the pleasure to collect all (as pokemon lol). And it crashes more often because when you have 18 fret ship that landing and lift off all the time it's so limit (even the noise...).

[bspawn]

There are some mods that make the outpost resource management problem a little bit less bad.
For the time being i have pretty much given up on outposts, i'm only using the first mod, it's just a texture replacement. The others are ESM's.

Directional Output Links
https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/5597

Outpost Storage (storage multiplier)
https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/6010?tab=description

combined Shipbuilder, Mega Cargo and Transfer Container (capacity 100000)
https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/5828?tab=description
(i guess it can feed an automated fabricator, in which case it could replace all resource storage containers)