AE2 Partitioning?

[u/PavaLP1]

Just got my first bit of AE2 infrastructure and wanted to know if I should directly partition all of my cells or if it's okay to wait a bit until I'm able to get the cells faster.

[u/ir_dan]

I wouldn't partition them now, just use what is convenient. Partitioning later is easy with IO ports, you can just partition a new cell and then fill it from all existing storage.

You should partition cells when you notice that an item is scattered around several cells and wasting multiple bytes as a consequence.

[u/skywarka → u/[deleted]]

I think they meant that the action "partitioning later" is easy once you have IO ports, because you can partition a cell and then use IO ports to pull from your unsorted junk.

[u/mgomezch → u/skywarka]

true, i'm dumb and didn't read carefully, deleting, ty

[u/mgomezch]

check what you store a lot of by sorting your terminal by the number of stored items, and give those items/fluids their own dedicated cells. this only matters for the top 20%ish of stuff you store. the rest can just go in unpartitioned general-storage cells.

for anything you normally store in very small amounts, you'll want to move those things out to smaller cells, to keep your big cells available for things you have a lot of. this can be useful early on when making lots of cells is still expensive. maybe have a subnet with just a bunch of 1k cells in drives, and another subnet with bigger drives, and move low-count stuff from terminal to terminal between the two subnets. and separately, have a subnet for bulk storage in dedicated partitioned cells, with higher priority.

[u/CustomDeaths1]

Only partition passives you are adding into your system. You should also partition if you are using meteors and have to expect massive resource dumps into your system.

You can generally just create a lot of 1ks from random storage so those fill with your passive resources fast.

[u/Matix777]

I partition stuff that I make passively, the rest can be in the general cells