[Suggestion] Advanced Storage Options

[DukeGrimm]

Would love to see more storage options. Right now the only real option is a giant room filling every tile with compactors. It would be great to see 3x3 or 4x4 storage objects. Maybe like pallets that animate to show when more things are placed into it, but the catch is each pallet can only store one type of item. That way we could store say 200 Tons of Sandstone on a 4x4 block rather than needing 10 2x1.

[AndreyKl]

That many compactors is indeed messy and having single compactor in sweep only mode, then dropping its content once full is an exploit...

But I believe such requests were started multiple times and so far were ignored(

[Lancar]

Regardless of how ignored this is or not, I would definitely like a bigger compactor as well. I don't mind it requiring more advanced resources or high level research.
Right now I pretty much completely skip storing anything at all apart from the stuff i transport using the conveyor network to automate the base. It is simply much better for efficiency to just leave most debris on the ground rather than building roughly one quadrillion million billion tiny little cargo compactors all over the map, consuming all the space in the asteroid and preventing any other building from ever be placed. ever.
Also having all those compactors everywhere consumes dupe time like nobodies business as they're running around trying to fetch or deliver stuff from them all. They probably cause lag, too, but since the game starts to lag a lot when your base grows big it's kinda hard to tell.

[babba]

I would like to ask for a 1000 ton skip compactor, then I only need to build 30 of those and will have lots of free space on the map to build new stuff. 

[Sasza22]

Leaving debris on the floor tanks your decor rating so i`d at least sweep the rooms dupes spend a lot of time in (barracks, latrine).

Having a better storage compator would be cool but needs a tradeoff like it requiring power to put stuff in or being build form more advanced materials.

[SharraShimada]

I would prefer something like in Terratech. Some kind of press that makes blocks of ressources to store somewhere. You cant use the compresses ressources that way, but you have to break the block into its ressources. In combination with a warehouse with a crane to store and retrieve the blocks, this would make sense.

[babba]

+1 ...also on the crane idea. I love cranes.

I would prefer something like in Terratech. Some kind of press that makes blocks of ressources to store somewhere. You cant use the compresses ressources that way, but you have to break the block into its ressources. In combination with a warehouse with a crane to store and retrieve the blocks, this would make sense.