I feel like they should be outright more expensive than vanilla storage, and be slightly more space-efficient. Possibly even considered tall structures.

This mod is so close to being perfectly balanced, and looks amazing. Takes a bit of creativity to paint them, but I've got my hauler's rings lit-up and shaded to perfection ;)

These look so good on a ship, really help complete the sci-fi aesthetic. Great work!

I love this, I used to play Cosmoteer before it was on steam and i LOVED the little designs for fighters and such, and when steam was there i thought cargo ships were the BEST, my mind just instantly went to those cool space stations you might see on various games or movies with spinning rings around them, and i just always wanted to make one. Truely, thank you.

I hope you don't feel discouraged by all of the feedback you're getting. this is a very interesting idea so I'm sure you'll get a lot of attention. One way to help balance this would be to make it accessible from the exterior only instead of interior. This would allow for fast loading and unloading but make it more challenging for production uses, as this style of ship is only ever used for its quick loading and offloading benefits and lightweight for long distance travel. Love the idea and keep it up!

Hi, I just want to say that I created a mod to rebalance this mod. https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3309792895
I increased the cost, speed factor, health, density and storage capacity (by a lot), added an airlock, and made them tall structures. They still don't have roof access, which is the primordial balance aspect. Also, added a Spanish translation.

They look great but having versions that are based on a 2 wide corridor instead of a 1 wide corridor would be great so that ship that are based on being fully symmetrical can still use them

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Resource stacks in these storage rings should store 4 times more than a normal storage room. That would make the 13x4 Ring 33% more efficient in space than using normal storage rooms, and the 25x8 ring 48% more efficient. This extra efficiency is not free as you are losing a lot of speed by being unable to access them externally like in a normal storage room.
Also, for both game balance and realism, I suggest making these storage rings be considered tall structures. Tall structures mean that if you place behind them a Deck Cannon or Mining Laser they won't be able to shoot over it. This would explain why they can store more resources in the same space, as the length and width are the same, but the height isn't.

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Hi, I think that this mod should store more resources per stack.
Storage Ring 13x4
It has an area of 15x4=60 tiles. This includes both areas, the blue one and the yellow one as you can't place objects on either of both. However, the storage area is only 10x2=20 tiles. That means that having normal storage rooms in that area would store 3 times more resources, with the addition of allowing external pick up and delivery without the need for airlocks.
Storage Ring 25x8
It has an area of 27x8=216 tiles and the storage area is 20x4=80 tiles. Normal storage rooms store 2.7 times more resources and also allow external delivery.

Any way you could increase the stack size for this storage mod ? would be neat seeing as its a "ring" you could fill it with more than on just a flat plane perhaps :D

Uncopatible with v0.23.0h - it doesn't work

I'm hesitant to download other mods to avoid breaking the game balance, but this is too cool to skip!

Buddy, the fact you can put them next to each other, doesnt mean theyre modular.

they are not really modular, there arent sub parts of the storage rings

@Augoeides : I think I'll make a note of it in the description. The purpose of this mod is essentially cosmetic. And I'm trying to get as close to realism as possible.

They look great, but I think they hold less than other Storage containers of appropriate Steel costs. Given that they can't be accessed from outside for storing, and take up a considerable amount of space on the sides, I feel like they should be a bit more cost effective.

I want a reason to put these on my ship, but ergonomically and financially, they're a drain.

Would you be able to make a version that you can store from outside. Takes so long to load them up when you have 6-10 per ship.

Interesting it does make me curious if a scaled up airlock capable to fit on rim of rings would make it any better?

@Aieonae :
As I said to the previous person. Yes, you have no other choice if you want to store resources inside.

@MIJAMIJAMIJA :
I can understand why you don't like it. But as you said, the aim is above all aesthetic. And I want a minimum of realism on moving rings (and I don't like the easy way out). As a result, the loading system has been modified. The game offers a free choice of configuration and design customisation for the creation of ships, so it's up to you to optimise your creations ;)

@BOT Gary :
No need to create a package. Each element is already available on its own, so all you need to do is create a collection and subscribe with a single click.

I have the exact same question how the crew going to access the cargo storage? ermm...by using airlocks?

looks very pretty but is not at all usable in gameplay. the fact the crew cant drop stuff right into storage from space, or take it out fast when selling, and walk slow inside of it, means filling these when looting or emptying them when selling easily takes 10x as long as not using them.

while the aesthetics are nice the very very negative impact on gameplay experience makes it, imo, unusable.

is there any chance to have all your mods in one mod? It will be called Swefpifh's Starship arch

While you are at it. Maybe bigger ones? Like a lot bigger.

https://i.imgur.com/clwtlL9.png

Thanks.

tbh rotating crew quarters could be a slight problem at the speed of the animation for the storage rings I'd think the crew would spend more time in the toilets heaving their guts out than working lol

@all : I'll see about adding a two-way wide module. As for the living quarters, I've already thought about it, I need to see how this style of module works and I also need to figure out just a design idea ^^

so dumb question but here goes so I'm running a massive mining / Production ship but my crew just places plates & coils where ever they want forcing me to harvest 1 type of material at a time is there a mod out there to get them to places stacks of 1 item on a stack that has room for more? Basically looking for a "Smart" sorting mod.

sorry for the double post btw had this question but also saw someone having builders block lol

Cthulhu I see the problem but have you thought of side ways storage banks? essentially I did this I build my ship in 3 sections the Fore is a Weaponized Mushroom that covers the sides of the ship, the Core hold all my reactors & is the thinnest part of the build, the After houses Refineries & main engines & is a near mirror of the fore mushroom. Lastly to the centre of the core I attach the storage rings & a shield cap with manoeuvring thrusters so far I'm up to 6 Large rings on the ship its a wide boy but doesn't look too bad.

Though I agree a 2 wide hall version would be nice for ships that want to be symmetrical & use a central Ion Cannon.

Could you add a 2 walkway version? Currently it doesn't look good on symmetrical ships as they are mirrored. https://i.imgur.com/Z3P0JMJ.png

Great idea. Would you consider a crew version to represent rotating habitat sections?

This is pretty cool.

clever use of the animations

The better we can make our ships look, the better. lol.

what do the form and rotation button do

@Nyx (She/Her) : For my team of players, this suits us completely ^^ We don't aim for ease, but difficulty combined with a bit of design :)

I do think the center hallway should be faster, or these should have (hidden) space access; in their current form they're borderline useless for actual gameplay, out-done by larger, cheaper, faster storages elsewhere

This is super cute.

@GoingBatty : Suscribe and test ;)

Can I have a ship that uses this mod to try?

@DK : This is indeed a weakness for ships as it could be in real life if it existed ;)

This seems like a REALLY great way to get any ship cut in half yesterday.

I understand the idea of making people slower in the ring section, but man since they have to use airlocks and can't drop things off, can this penalty be removed, as it takes forever for stuff to be sent back and forth!

be cool with integrated with a railgun

Very Fancy for smaller ships :D!

Oh damn thats cool

wow, look awesome!

Its much better now :)

@TehyrPhoenix :
I have reduced the tonnage of the rings. But I take into account the weight of the frame around it, as it is not a cargo hold :)

I love the look of this mod, but it has one thing that makes it basically unusable. These things weigh over twice as much as regular storage, making them cripple the thrust of the ship they are attached to. All vanilla storage has a weight of 1 ton per cargo slot. Yours is 2.5 tons per cargo slot. 52 Tons for the 20 slot, and 200 tons for the 80 slot.

I ran a test. With 2 large thrusters and 80 vanila storage slots, I was able to get 82 m/s speed. With the 80 slot ring, I was only able to get 57 m/s. And that was only with 1 module. This Thrust to weight disadvantage would only get worse with more modules.

Please reduce the weight to 20 tons for the small and 80 tons for the big to stay in line with vanilla storage. I really want to design ships around this mod, but currently I need to strap thrusters on all sides of the ship just to move it. XP

thx ^^

This is really nice!