Powered Storage Trouble

[Bear of Pain]

Im having trouble with the new powered storage. I built some and i wanted to move it elsewhere, but you cant destroy them if they have more than 50 materials. The trouble really comes from my shuttles constantly unloading onto this storage even when its off. Since its off the materails dont get loaded into the storage, but sit in the loading bay. It seems that you cant get the materials out fo the storage without the storage moving them to the loading bay on its own, but that doesnt happens since the shuttles keep loading up the loading bay. Does anyone have a soluion for this? The only thing i can think of is turning of my mds and hoping the storage gets hit

[Cave Yeti Supreme]

Have you tried moving the resources out of the storage with the RC Transport manually? I haven't used the new storages yet, so I don't know if that will work, but I don't understand why it wouldn't.

[Bear of Pain]

You can only move resources when its in the loading bay. You have no accese to the resources in the storage while it is not in the loading bay, so if its off the resources are stuck in there and if its on more resources get put in

[ancienthighway]

Turn the shuttle and drone hubs off. Then unload the depot with transporters.

[SkiRich]

Originally posted by ancienthighway:

Turn the shuttle and drone hubs off. Then unload the depot with transporters.

This, or put a ton of universal depots and regular depots next to the PStorage.
They get filled first. Drones will assist in distributing the goods from the PStorage onto the UStorage.
It will give you time to remove materials from the PStorage and then demo it.

[bongerman85]

what? yes you can the automated storage can be turned off if u destroy the building it will dump all of your resourcesoon the ground

[ancienthighway]

Originally posted by bongerman85:

what? yes you can the automated storage can be turned off if u destroy the building it will dump all of your resourcesoon the ground

Only if there are less than 50 units in the storage.

[Bear of Pain]

the problem is that the shuttles are delivering straight the the power storage so the loading bay is never empty so resources never get pulled out of the storage. I think turning off the shuttles and bleeding the storage is the only way to empty it, but part of my colony is dependent in shuttle delivers so im going to need to shift that work elsewhere

[V1taminC]

The power storages are bad imo. made one for food. Colony started starving shortly due to the drones and shuttles not beeing able to get the food quickly enough of the storage, however they put the food in there like their lives depended on it. Made it VERY hard to empty it so i could destroy it.
I did empty it by having to manualy telling 2-3 rovers to go back and forth to pick up the resourses.

For now im only useing one for steel as the molehole creates absolute masses of it that i dont need.
Im sticking with the good old storages til they make an update that allows for mass drop and pickup on them.

[SilentHash]

I'm having the exact same issue. Made a concrete storage quite far from my two dome hubs, and now I want to empty it to move the concrete to a better location. I tried using my two RC Transporsts to move it all using a supply route, but my 16 supply shuttles are literally moving it all back to the storage, so it's this stupid loop of never ending stupidness. Why isn't there an option to decrease the priority of storages or an 'empty storage' button? It's now impossible to empty this dumb thing.

[Bear of Pain]

ya i think for now the power storage is unusable unless u have a massive surplus of resources

[baddoggs]

That is why i continue to use "silva's" awesome Advanced storage.

[SkiRich]

Originally posted by Bear of Pain:

ya i think for now the power storage is unusable unless u have a massive surplus of resources

Yes it does require some careful consideration for use. The idea was not to make it easier or as some folks call it, a cheat.

[Syg]

Originally posted by SkiRich:

Originally posted by Bear of Pain:

ya i think for now the power storage is unusable unless u have a massive surplus of resources

Yes it does require some careful consideration for use. The idea was not to make it easier or as some folks call it, a cheat.

All they need to do is make a toggle for storages accepting new materrials or not, then the sorting AI could look for that toggle and treat stored material as "on the ground = pick up."

Should it be instantaneous? No. Should it not be possible without turning off all your drones, shuttles, and running 5 transports just because you need to get rid of a storage?

No.

This was poorly thought out and poorly designed.

[SkiRich]

Hang tight. I'll build you a mod to fix this behavior. I just tested it and it fixes this effect. Now when you task you transport to pull the resources from the warehouse it keeps up with transport demand so the transport fills from a warehouse. Give me 20 minutes to clean up the code, and make a nice icon and post on the workshop.

[SkiRich]

Solution to the OP's Problems ...
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1382739530