What does it do?

The LOUD Integrated Storage Mod removes ALL the standard storage units from the game and the adjacency bonuses that go with them.

Instead, all the units which would have gotten adjacency bonuses now have an additional level of upgrade at the Tech 3 level which will give them the full bonus as if they were surrounded by the associated buildings. The HP of the original structure is slightly increased and for visual indication, the upgraded buildings are slightly larger.

This mod affects:

• T2 and T3 power structures.
• T3 Mass Extraction and T2 and T3 Mass Fabrication.
• T3 and Experimental Shield Structures.
• Unique Paragon counterparts each faction possesses.

A secondary upshot of this mod is that you may now get the benefits of storage adjacency AND the benefits of resource adjacency for your factories without having to juggle your building footprints. Of course, the lone drawback to this mod is that you can no longer equip T2 mass extractors with storage. It would have been possible to write the necessary code to allow the upgrades to be done on the earlier tiers, but I didn't deem it worth the effort. To compensate for this, most of these buildings now have a small amount of mass and/or energy storage built in.

Another aspect of this mod is that it aids in managing unit cap. Normally, the units affected by this mod consume a certain amount of unit cap. In order to make these upgrades even more attractive (beyond the increase to power and/or mass output) most of these upgrades will reduce the amount of unit cap that these buildings will consume - in some cases eliminating the unit cap cost entirely.

In terms of game performance, the elimination of the buildings reduces unit count (which impacts sim speed) and the application and calculation of the buffs normally associated with adjacency (which reduces memory usage).

The most recent addition to this mod is the inclusion of unique models for each faction's Paragon-equivalent. These models were kindly provided by BrewLAN.