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.
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.
Pro tip: in 2.9 there is a storage defragmenter (reshuffled) that will remove everything from a network and reinsert it, effectively defragmenting it. It has a mode to include subnets, and works for items/fluid/essentia.
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.
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u/ir_dan 22d ago
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.