Yeah mark select with filters -> move to -> container of choice also type in keyword, select highlighted -> move to container of choice select multiple-> discard
Not just a sort button /management system, but hopefully an increase in storage capacity. Each expedition, and now the fishing, adds more and more items to the game, but apart from the skiff, it's been a while since our storage has increased.
A sorting button would be nice, but honestly, I enjoy sorting my own stuff. I name each storage container after what I want in it (Minerals, Plants + Flora,Stones + Crystals, etc;) and just take the time to put each item in the related storage container. So I really see no big need for something like that but would welcome it. One streamer who had excellent streams on storage management was a streamer named Thranxes. I learned a lot on No Mans Sky inventory management from him. Ironically, I don't think he is streaming anymore, but you can still find some of his streams on TH-cam
That's great. I'll try to look him up. And as for the button, I don't think it will change anything for someone edu wants to continue organizing their storage manually.
I do this as well as I enjoy having the ability to organize things how I see fit, and I even change it up sometimes. HOWEVER what is definitely missing is some kind of auto-stack feature, particularly for the storage containers. My biggest issue with inventory (besides never seeming to have enough lol), is that once I've gotten everything organized and placed nicely somewhere, if I get more of those items they just stack up in other inventories where I then need to manually move them over to the appropriate container. There should be a way to set a container or even individual item to auto-stack all instances in the predetermined location I've seen tutorials for being able to auto-sort when using the quick move menu, which looks like a great idea - but it only works if you're physically in your base/freighter and for me it only works if the stacks I move are considerably less than half full (basically the resulting stack would have to end up less than half full after the move or it doesn't work at all for me)
Give us the ability to store 50 ships as trophies in our homes for show. Then when you want to use one you take it outside and expand it using the multi tool !
@ Thank you I think people would absolutely love it . Especially the massive ship collectors in the game. There are many and I have yet to meet a guy who was happy to get rid of their ship unless they are a beginner . Twelve is absolutely not enough with so many variants and more coming. It would also encourage base building to show them off in the trophy room.
We need a way to craft using items from storage containers. Most crafting games allow this for containers within your base. And perhaps a way to tag items, like ones we want to sell.
I think this actually happens automatically when you're on your freighter. But not when on your base with storage containers... Not 100% sure. I need to check.
Nice community shout out. Well, I think we have to be patient. The deeper you dive into the game, you start to realize, that there are a lot of tiny “seeds” all around for future development. So my guess is, HG is going through there internal list, step by step. Nevertheless, community shout outs are good. One post here mentioned LNF - that actually could be helpful, if both games should need an inventory system - which is likely.
I hear you. At some point I even thought of trying to contact the author of the famous save editor and try to add it the ability to sort, but then - if you're already editing your save file on PC, just give yourself whatever you like. Plus, it's written in Java, and I really didn't want to go there again.
I dont have problems with sorting if i keep it tidy all the time. But sorting would save time. Sorting by: Item type alfabetical order value Custom item order where u set chierarchy for item types youself before sorting.
I 100% agree with number 3. To change shep is pain? you need all the time go and select main ship and transfer all stuff/ It will be so helpful if we can just see 2 ships and just transfer form left to right
Thing is - I love switching ships. Whatever feels nicer to me at the moment - that's what I fly. And then there's stuff left in that ship's inventory and I switch again and I can't remember where I put something. Oh - and most of my save files have 6-8 ships, except the 2 most widely used where I have 10 and 12. So yes - it's a pain to switch ships. Also, if you followed my previous video on storage (th-cam.com/video/u0I1N6akYDc/w-d-xo.html) where I am suggesting use of exocraft... Same thing.
You know how you when you interact with a storage container you see your exo suit on the right and the container on the left? I want to do that with any two storage type in range; exosuit, ships, exo craft, freighter, containers. Pick a storage for the right, then pick one for the left and drag and drop between them. Maybe make this a base building part / freighter room. Interact with a terminal, pick a storage from a drop down menu, then pick another from a second drop down.
I understand I'm the minority here and I'll make use of whatever autosorting mechanics a game has, but my inventory is beautiful. Clean, trim, and organized. Tho, every update requires me to tweek it.
I sort mine as well. Always keeping it organized. I don't just throw everything into my inventories. I take the time to put what I want where and have no problems remembering which container I have which material.
@goodguysfree I'm not a fan of color tagging. A lot of things that are the same color are completely different and unrelated items. You're also usually only going by text, so if you don't already know what color it is, you're still looking thru every container. Categorizing by usage and type is the way to go imo. Most importantly, learn to get rid of what you don't need regularly. If something has a white background for example, its primary purpose is to be sold. With the exception of a stack of Star Silk, Larval Cores, and Gravitino Balls, there's absolutely no reason to keep any of it. If it doesn't refine into Nanites, like Hadal cores or Larval Cores, it's 100% safe to sell. You will literally never use it. Another safe rule of thumb is that you'll never need more than ONE stack of items with a purple background. If you have more than that one stack, sell all the extras.
I would also like the mission log to give actual information about mission progress and objectives. How many sentinels do I have to destroy? What resource do I have to acqujre? Etc.
When I get the starborn runner in upcoming mission if the stats are better I will give away the ship you gave me. I can do this repeatedly by reloading a restore point yes? Thanks
1) I completely support this. And the ability to search would also be extremely nice, although I know that's potentially more problematic in this game than in same. 2) The planet in the background of the opener is beautiful. I've only found one that since the Worlds update that is earth-like _and_ doesn't have a yellowish sky. All of my earth-like planets pre-Worlds have changed, ranging from the sky becoming yellow, to changing planet types entirely.
A send stacked would be great working both ways so you could move anything you've gathered across if there was any of the item already in the container you opened e.g I've been farming resources and picked up silver, gold and carbon, I open storage 0 which contain these items so when I hit send all it stacks all the items I have on me to the container if there's already any of it in there. This would make sorting far faster and dumping loot far quicker
@@goodguysfreeexactly, and it's one of the best inventory management features I've seen. It saves so much time after loot runs and even without a sort items option you can atleast use it to gather stacks together from multiple storages.
Yes BUT you have not suggested a method of sorting! Based on resource type? Location? Volume / amount? Assume you will need a minimum of storage deployed? Single or multiple criteria? Just saying “a button” is not going to help. The views or sorting is inherently in side these database structures but turning the interface to users to sort may be much more complex than you think. Never the less I support asking for a solution.
I sat with myself thinking about it, and came up with a rough idea, and then got distracted, and when I went back to thinking about this a day later, I couldn't find what I wrote, so I started again, and came up with something totally different - the problem is that the way we use our storage has some dependency on our play style, so there is no one system that would suit all. I am happy to let HG come up with something, and let us find out how to use it.
The method should ideally be definable by the player For auto-sort, there should be multiple obvious choices such as "by color, by rarity, by value, by type, by stack size, etc" The more complex part would be adding a sort of auto-stacking option, whereas the player could perhaps select an item and choose "auto-stack here" - then wherever that item is placed, newly acquired instances of that same item would endlessly pile up in stacks in the same location. There could even be settings such as allowing and/or forcing items to stack from and/or to any location (for example, forcing gold and silver from shooting asteroids to stack in exosuit inventory). General/broad settings could be applied such as "auto-stack from all sources Y/N" - where choosing N would only auto-stack if the items are sent to same broad inventory location (exosuit, ship, freighter) Obviously there would need to be quite a bit of thought put into it but I'm confident the options and controls could be kept simple enough to make sense but powerful enough to help immensely - coding and managing the database notwithstanding of course In the end, even only offering us a fraction of what we're asking for, with simple options, could be better than what we currently have. What we have is decent but not great
I have to spend at least 10-15min either at the end or beginning of each play session just sorting crap. My other high hour game is Ark, there are multiple crap sorting options in that game.
I love how verstile you make the word "crap", it's great! And yeah - those 10-15 minutes are the reason many don't bother, and just live with it, and I am sure there are some who decided to stop playing because it became so annoying to them.
@@goodguysfree I cannot see HG not using a translation table, where an item name in whatever language refers to a unique object number,. You just need to type in the name in your language to look for that magic number and then run thru all slots of inventory.
@goodguysfree in switch. If you have 2 saves with 80+ hrs and some bases... Then you cannot start a new save. I have not had a new save for any expedition. I have only played through existing save. They are working on it but at the moment new saves when existing save are present do not work on switch since orbital update
would be nice if the items were able to be in list form with text. Also, Would be nice if you could search by typing what you need. Would be nice if there was sort or search by type. This is the worst thing about this game. inventory management sucks!!!
So needed, hopefully they have this on the list of things to add before Light No Fire comes.....
Yeah, otherwise we're in for another episode of inventory woes.
YOOOO JASON I AM BIG FANNN!!
And also you good guys free
@@goodguysfree I have played before omega but my dad played in pathfinder update
Even better would be a way to allocate resource types to specific containers - but sort/search would be an awesome start
That's a great idea, just how would that work? Naturally you're going to have to assign many resource types to each container...
Yeah mark select with filters -> move to -> container of choice
also type in keyword, select highlighted -> move to container of choice
select multiple-> discard
I was just thinking about that too.
Not just a sort button /management system, but hopefully an increase in storage capacity.
Each expedition, and now the fishing, adds more and more items to the game, but apart from the skiff, it's been a while since our storage has increased.
Love the idea of being able to see other ships inventories... adding exocraft and multi-tools (techs) would make it perfect!
GGF already knows this, but I want to let everybody else know that I'm on board with this idea. Please consider this, Hello Games.
I absolutely love this idea
A sorting button would be nice, but honestly, I enjoy sorting my own stuff. I name each storage container after what I want in it (Minerals, Plants + Flora,Stones + Crystals, etc;) and just take the time to put each item in the related storage container. So I really see no big need for something like that but would welcome it. One streamer who had excellent streams on storage management was a streamer named Thranxes. I learned a lot on No Mans Sky inventory management from him. Ironically, I don't think he is streaming anymore, but you can still find some of his streams on TH-cam
That's great. I'll try to look him up.
And as for the button, I don't think it will change anything for someone edu wants to continue organizing their storage manually.
I do this as well as I enjoy having the ability to organize things how I see fit, and I even change it up sometimes. HOWEVER what is definitely missing is some kind of auto-stack feature, particularly for the storage containers. My biggest issue with inventory (besides never seeming to have enough lol), is that once I've gotten everything organized and placed nicely somewhere, if I get more of those items they just stack up in other inventories where I then need to manually move them over to the appropriate container. There should be a way to set a container or even individual item to auto-stack all instances in the predetermined location
I've seen tutorials for being able to auto-sort when using the quick move menu, which looks like a great idea - but it only works if you're physically in your base/freighter and for me it only works if the stacks I move are considerably less than half full (basically the resulting stack would have to end up less than half full after the move or it doesn't work at all for me)
@leftcoastfunk some keen insight there! Thanks 👍🏻
Just do what I do. Don't horde. If something is needed? Go shopping.
Give us the ability to store 50 ships as trophies in our homes for show. Then when you want to use one you take it outside and expand it using the multi tool !
Sweet idea!
This is one of the coolest ideas I've heard for the suggestion of allowing ownership of more ships!!! Would love this!
@ Thank you I think people would absolutely love it . Especially the massive ship collectors in the game. There are many and I have yet to meet a guy who was happy to get rid of their ship unless they are a beginner . Twelve is absolutely not enough with so many variants and more coming. It would also encourage base building to show them off in the trophy room.
We need a way to craft using items from storage containers. Most crafting games allow this for containers within your base. And perhaps a way to tag items, like ones we want to sell.
I think this actually happens automatically when you're on your freighter. But not when on your base with storage containers... Not 100% sure. I need to check.
i even went to X and tweeted sean murray about it.
Thank you!
Nice community shout out. Well, I think we have to be patient. The deeper you dive into the game, you start to realize, that there are a lot of tiny “seeds” all around for future development. So my guess is, HG is going through there internal list, step by step. Nevertheless, community shout outs are good. One post here mentioned LNF - that actually could be helpful, if both games should need an inventory system - which is likely.
😂 I just had this in my mind like hours ago. SORTING IS NEEDED 😅
I need a button!
I’m for all three….I play on PC, PS5, and Nintendo Switch….I desperately need sorting!
I hear you. At some point I even thought of trying to contact the author of the famous save editor and try to add it the ability to sort, but then - if you're already editing your save file on PC, just give yourself whatever you like. Plus, it's written in Java, and I really didn't want to go there again.
I dont have problems with sorting if i keep it tidy all the time. But sorting would save time. Sorting by:
Item type
alfabetical order
value
Custom item order where u set chierarchy for item types youself before sorting.
What we need is storage as we need it,no anal retentive limits,limited storage is rediculous.
I 100% agree with number 3. To change shep is pain? you need all the time go and select main ship and transfer all stuff/ It will be so helpful if we can just see 2 ships and just transfer form left to right
Thing is - I love switching ships. Whatever feels nicer to me at the moment - that's what I fly.
And then there's stuff left in that ship's inventory and I switch again and I can't remember where I put something.
Oh - and most of my save files have 6-8 ships, except the 2 most widely used where I have 10 and 12.
So yes - it's a pain to switch ships. Also, if you followed my previous video on storage (th-cam.com/video/u0I1N6akYDc/w-d-xo.html) where I am suggesting use of exocraft... Same thing.
Change the world.....'s inventory management!!!
Really hoping someone at @hellogames is taking note...
You know how you when you interact with a storage container you see your exo suit on the right and the container on the left?
I want to do that with any two storage type in range; exosuit, ships, exo craft, freighter, containers. Pick a storage for the right, then pick one for the left and drag and drop between them. Maybe make this a base building part / freighter room. Interact with a terminal, pick a storage from a drop down menu, then pick another from a second drop down.
Love this idea. And let us choose other ships, and exocraft too. That would be amazing.
I wish on your frieghter you could have crew that unloads the refinders. And also tab between all refinders without going in and out of the menu.
That sounds like a good thing to make a request in Zendesk...
I understand I'm the minority here and I'll make use of whatever autosorting mechanics a game has, but my inventory is beautiful. Clean, trim, and organized. Tho, every update requires me to tweek it.
I sort mine as well. Always keeping it organized. I don't just throw everything into my inventories. I take the time to put what I want where and have no problems remembering which container I have which material.
Same here. I have neumonics to remind myself what belongs where.
@titaniumO2 I actually tried to put some colored posters on the containers in my base to match the stuff inside.
@goodguysfree I'm not a fan of color tagging. A lot of things that are the same color are completely different and unrelated items. You're also usually only going by text, so if you don't already know what color it is, you're still looking thru every container.
Categorizing by usage and type is the way to go imo. Most importantly, learn to get rid of what you don't need regularly.
If something has a white background for example, its primary purpose is to be sold. With the exception of a stack of Star Silk, Larval Cores, and Gravitino Balls, there's absolutely no reason to keep any of it. If it doesn't refine into Nanites, like Hadal cores or Larval Cores, it's 100% safe to sell. You will literally never use it.
Another safe rule of thumb is that you'll never need more than ONE stack of items with a purple background. If you have more than that one stack, sell all the extras.
@Lordoftheapes79 That is super useful information... Thank you!
I would also like the mission log to give actual information about mission progress and objectives. How many sentinels do I have to destroy? What resource do I have to acqujre? Etc.
I guess I am so used to the way it is, I didn't even consider how inadequate the log usually is. 👍🏻
When I get the starborn runner in upcoming mission if the stats are better I will give away the ship you gave me. I can do this repeatedly by reloading a restore point yes? Thanks
I think so, but really, I am no expert on NMS min/max theory 🤔
1) I completely support this. And the ability to search would also be extremely nice, although I know that's potentially more problematic in this game than in same. 2) The planet in the background of the opener is beautiful. I've only found one that since the Worlds update that is earth-like _and_ doesn't have a yellowish sky. All of my earth-like planets pre-Worlds have changed, ranging from the sky becoming yellow, to changing planet types entirely.
Here's the address of that planet (Euclid galaxy) - just keep your base beyond the horizon from mine, please: nmsportals.github.io/#4074050246F8
Yaaaassssssss!!!
A send stacked would be great working both ways so you could move anything you've gathered across if there was any of the item already in the container you opened e.g I've been farming resources and picked up silver, gold and carbon, I open storage 0 which contain these items so when I hit send all it stacks all the items I have on me to the container if there's already any of it in there. This would make sorting far faster and dumping loot far quicker
Cool idea. I've seen other games that have a "store similar" button.
@@goodguysfreeexactly, and it's one of the best inventory management features I've seen. It saves so much time after loot runs and even without a sort items option you can atleast use it to gather stacks together from multiple storages.
Yes BUT you have not suggested a method of sorting! Based on resource type? Location? Volume / amount? Assume you will need a minimum of storage deployed? Single or multiple criteria? Just saying “a button” is not going to help. The views or sorting is inherently in side these database structures but turning the interface to users to sort may be much more complex than you think. Never the less I support asking for a solution.
I sat with myself thinking about it, and came up with a rough idea, and then got distracted, and when I went back to thinking about this a day later, I couldn't find what I wrote, so I started again, and came up with something totally different - the problem is that the way we use our storage has some dependency on our play style, so there is no one system that would suit all.
I am happy to let HG come up with something, and let us find out how to use it.
The method should ideally be definable by the player
For auto-sort, there should be multiple obvious choices such as "by color, by rarity, by value, by type, by stack size, etc"
The more complex part would be adding a sort of auto-stacking option, whereas the player could perhaps select an item and choose "auto-stack here" - then wherever that item is placed, newly acquired instances of that same item would endlessly pile up in stacks in the same location. There could even be settings such as allowing and/or forcing items to stack from and/or to any location (for example, forcing gold and silver from shooting asteroids to stack in exosuit inventory). General/broad settings could be applied such as "auto-stack from all sources Y/N" - where choosing N would only auto-stack if the items are sent to same broad inventory location (exosuit, ship, freighter)
Obviously there would need to be quite a bit of thought put into it but I'm confident the options and controls could be kept simple enough to make sense but powerful enough to help immensely - coding and managing the database notwithstanding of course
In the end, even only offering us a fraction of what we're asking for, with simple options, could be better than what we currently have. What we have is decent but not great
@leftcoastfunk I love your ideas. If I was HG, I'd be eager to start coding some of these ideas...
Pleaseeeee!!!
I have to spend at least 10-15min either at the end or beginning of each play session just sorting crap. My other high hour game is Ark, there are multiple crap sorting options in that game.
I love how verstile you make the word "crap", it's great! And yeah - those 10-15 minutes are the reason many don't bother, and just live with it, and I am sure there are some who decided to stop playing because it became so annoying to them.
What about a search? I sure know I have stacks of Carbon in 10+ places that would be awesome they all landed in one spot...
That works be a great idea, sure. It might be difficult, though. Items have different names in different languages. Not trivial at all.
@@goodguysfree I cannot see HG not using a translation table, where an item name in whatever language refers to a unique object number,. You just need to type in the name in your language to look for that magic number and then run thru all slots of inventory.
@hquest you're probably right.
In-game search tool
Great idea. Suggested by a few others too, it's really a great idea.
Before they do this fix no need new saves fix. All I can do is play my main save. ..
I'm missing something here. Probably too swamped in my day job. What's up with new saves?
@goodguysfree in switch. If you have 2 saves with 80+ hrs and some bases... Then you cannot start a new save. I have not had a new save for any expedition. I have only played through existing save. They are working on it but at the moment new saves when existing save are present do not work on switch since orbital update
would be nice if the items were able to be in list form with text. Also, Would be nice if you could search by typing what you need. Would be nice if there was sort or search
by type. This is the worst thing about this game. inventory management sucks!!!
So true - and the idea for a list - it's brilliant.
@ and thank you for all you do for this game. You and Jason Plays are my 2 favorite content providers for NMS.
@rikhavok putting me in the same category as Jason is ... I'm lost for words, really. Thank you. It means the world to me to hear that.
I just put things in alphabetical order. Pretty simple.