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When I went to Uni, I left my decent gear at my rents house and they were all in hard cases, laid horizontally but stood up on the thinner part of the case. I didn't stack them up. They were left like that for quite some time.
I had two Musicman basses in the collection and strangely, over the course of about 6-8 years, both needed a new neck plate (which meant a long boring process of sending them in, Musicman updating the database, new neck plate being sent, etc) and both had been for some time (not continuously) laid like that.
No other issues occurred and it could well have just been the way things are, and nothing to do with the storage.
I would suggest in a hardcase, vertically, then rested against each other at not too big an angle. The case will take the weight and the necks will be very secure with zero stress. I store them like that now but I take them out every now and then to clean and tune up.
In the past I've bought Guitars offer ebay that have been kept in a freezing shed/garage and all the hardware becomes tarnished from condensation etc - Don't do that. I don't like crap looking cases either.
It's just common sense really, but I keep mine in their case in a wardrobe, unless it's my main player - Then it's on a stand my the bedroom.
Edit: it's essentially 2 sides of chipboard, a piece front and back at the bottom to rest base of guitars on and another piece at top with cut outs for neck.
Where body rests is covered in pipe insulation foam, the cut outs have strips of camping mat foam in them, all padding covered with 100% cotton bed sheet.
I have plans I found web if they are any use to you? I started with them but changed measurements to suit as I found the plans made the guitars too close together for me to be happy, also it was a good few inches deeper than it needed to be.
In the end mine is pretty much a metre wide with cut outs for 8 guitars but each space would be big enough to fit an acoustic in each slot if needed, so when I have 7 electrics and an acoustic in there they aren't bunched up.