Talk:Large Volatiles Tank/@comment-171.76.204.209-20140610063338/@comment-24951265-20140610142542

There is a penalty - safety valves open, venting the excess into the vacuum, where it rapidly dissipates, being lost to the player. So the player can never have more than their storage limit (ok, there's some delay when a meteor strike hits, and you can keep some of it if you catch it before something else adds production to that resource).