Furniture ratio in shops?

[torpid topaz]

So I know this question is very play style based so there’s not going to be one answer that’s definitive but I’m wandering if there’s any rule of thumb, or just interested in hearing what different strategies people go for with their ratio of furniture to resource bins and which resource bins / furniture they have placed in the shop.

I feel like with mine I’m having some issues since I’ve more than definitely got an over abundance of stone and am lacking on total energy and this KC has made me realise how bad that differential actually is.

So, are there any rules of thumb or strategies anyone has of which furniture / bins should be placed down?

[zinc lily]

As few bins as needed, as many racks as possible

There's nor hard rule, because it depends on a lot of things specific to you

Like if you have a specific crafting rotation that don't use some resources, a craft with especially low/high resource requirement...

But the main thing is that it depends on your playstyle (how often/long you log in)

If you log really often (multiple times per hour) for most of the day, or usually play long sessions (like 4+ hours), you don't need many bins, as you'll rely on storage and start a craft as soon as you have the resource. You may even be able to have only one bin of each for lower tier resources

If you do a few shorter sessions per day (like two or three 15 minutes sessions per day for exemple), you probably want to have more bins, in order to fill your crafting queue while you're online, as all your crafts will be completed when you log in again

[torpid topaz]

I'm somewhere in between those I think. I tend to play longer hours when I can since I keep ST as a secondary game on my other monitor, but then work mon-fri so am on less during those times

my main crafts atm are aura of inspirations, which don't use any common resources but I can only usually pop 2 on at once and have to wait a couple hours before I can rush them

so I'd maybe have 4 of the uncommons, 4 of the ether/essence and 3 of each common so I can continue working on getting higher tiers and still function well in KC?