EVE New Citizens Q&A

On the PVE side, when I find a station with agents I will be using awhile, I spend one session gathering up all my stuff and bringing it to that station.

If you are packrat or hoarder, you can put everything in a container and contract the move.

Industrials and shuttles. Fly the indy over with a bunch of shuttles. fly a shuttle back. move a ship. fly a shuttle back. repeat until you have to use the indy to bring all the shuttles back. That's if you're moving insured or rigged ships that you don't want to repackage. (or use your pod. riskier, as you might get randomly podded. Shuttle gives you that /little/ extra protection. Or a rookie ship)

Alternatively, contract the move with someone like Red Frog Freight.

ISK, you want your stuff in the most liquid and easy to move form - ISK.

Also - TRASH THINGS
TRASH what you cannot sell or reprocess, DONT leave **** behing, it will be "forever stuck" there and foreveralone.
And your assets will become a hellhole. Trust my 6 years of runnin places and leaving **** in stations made me bitter. Now I have like gazzilion records in assets window, and half of them are in stations on the other end of the world and some null sec station.... you don't want this, you want ISK,
also when you grow into carrier - have only that much stuff that fits into carrier ship bay (fitted ships) and corporate hold (modules, ammo, exotic dancers), do not encumber yourself.

I have a main base in each of the four empires, either in a trade hub or near a good mission agent.
If it is valuable enough to store I move it there. But you have to think as well 'how much is my time worth ?'. If the slow travel time to move a ship would effectively be better spend making isk and just buying a new ship near your new location, just sell the old ship (or put it up for sale if no good offers are available) and, travel fast in a shuttle and buy a new ship on location.
In addition I have temporary bases whereever my current endeavours take me (lowsec, 0.0). Once every while I do a little clearing up. No matter how neat you try to be stuff will have a nasty habit of getting spread around.

As you can see, there are several alternatives.



Once again - Industrials are to handy for everyone not to have one.
Fit the mids with Shield Expanders and an Invulnerability Module and the Lows with Cargo Hold expanders. Turn on the Invul. module each time you warp and you've got some modicum of protection unless you're hauling something really expensive. Don't put AB's on an Indy that is just jumping from system to system - use that PG for the Shield Expanders.




On moving ships that were to big for my industrial - one thing I have found handy was to buy a shuttle blue print - that way - I can simply carry the trit and the blue print with me if the ship I'm transferring doesn't have a large enough hold for a shuttle. I can then recycle the shuttle and (with a little more trit) carry the trit I get around with the shuttle BPO again.

Alternately - you can sell the shuttles.


As to having crap scattered all over EVE - if you have the range of operations to do it - you can right click on things in your Assets window and sell them - or you can trash them remotely as well. I'd sell things before I'd trash them. If the price is low enough someone will usually buy it - and a low price is better than the nothing you're going to get from trashing them.


In your Main Base - you can buy Station Containers that really hold a lot of stuff - and use these to sort your things into - but - realize that you won't be able to see inside the container from a remote location to determine if you own something or not. Thus - leave the stuff you think you might want to use in your items hangar and put the junk in Station Containers (which are also located in the Items Hangar unless you're part of a corporation that has corporate hangars). You won't be able to move the Station Container ... except maybe with a Freighter - so if you move your operations and don't think you'll be back - just sell it.



On selling things in EVE - remember - that you do not buy or sell things in EVE. You place bids. Low bid will always get the next sale within a station. Someone CAN NOT buy anything but the items with the lowest bid. If you try - you will get an item from the low bidders lot - but at the higher price you selected to pay. Thus - if you place a bid that is .01 ISK on an item in a base where there are NPC's selling the same item - your item will NEVER sell. But - if you place a bid that is .01 ISK lower - your item will be the first sold to anyone buying that item in that station. This is universally true for all Sale Orders (what the bids to sell something are called).

For Buy Orders - the reverse is true - in that the High Bid will always get the sale.


An example of the above was once upon a time I was making Civilian Miners by repackaging my rookie ships a lot of times and then selling the miners this process creates. (This is something to do for a joke - you'll never make money that way). So I had the Civilian Miners on a Sell Order for like 500 or 1000 ISK ... I forget. Later, I'm looking through my Transactions - and I see that someone paid 1,000,000.00 ISK for one of my Civilian Miners. Someone else had placed a Sell Order for Civilian Miners at 1 million ISK - and this person had some how clicked on that to try and buy it. I saw they were 3 days old and gave them their money back. The point though - is that even though I was only asking 500 ISK - when that person clicked on the Civilian Miners bid at a Million - they got one of MINE - but at the Million ISK price.

So - keep that in mind if you are trying to sell something.

If you get extra copies of skill books and want to sell them - if you sell them in an NPC school station that provides them - you MUST sell them below the cost of the NPC items. .01 ISK lower will do - and they will sell right away ... as long as it's not one of the Career Agent stations where they are giving those skills away (and is the reason you have more than one of them). If you want to sell that skill book at a profit - you must take it to some other station that isn't selling those skill books as if they are - you will NEVER sell them at a bid that is higher. In a normal station where NPC's are not selling some item - you can hope that anyone bidding lower than you are will run out of inventory - and then your stuff will begin to sell. NPC Stations selling items - NEVER run out of inventory ...



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You can do a 'view contents' on a station container, remotely.

Just not search for stuff (I think).

The downside to them, really, is you can't move them between stations. and you can't trash them until three weeks after you last used them. It's not much clutter, but it inflames my OCD

GP to this post is right, station cans (the million m3 ones) are too big to fit in anything (IIRC, it's a 1:1 space-size ratio, unlike other cans that are a few hundred m3 bigger on the inside).