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SGT FUNYOUN
Elysian Space Navy - 1st Fleet
#1 - 2013-01-24 20:15:32 UTC
Ok, what the heck is an m3, how is it calculated, and how do I MANUALLY calculate how much cargospace volume it means?

Any auto calculators are fine and appreciated but, I want to know WHAT it is, WHAT it means, and how to do the figures IN MY OWN head.

Thank you very much; I know this is epic newbie flame bait... even though I have been playing since 2010; I have just never really thought about it until now. What?
Bill Serkoff2
Tachyon Technology
#2 - 2013-01-24 20:19:54 UTC
Ships and containers have a set amount of cargo volume, measured in cubic meters.
Items take up a set amount of cargo volume, measured in cubic meters.
Subtract the volume of the item from the volume of the cargo space, and you have your remaining empty space.

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Batelle
Federal Navy Academy
#3 - 2013-01-24 20:22:45 UTC
an m3 is a cubic meter, which is a unit of measure of volume. It is the basic measure of volume in this game. Every item you can put in your ship has a volume measured in m3. If the free space in your ship, measured in m3, is larger than a given item, then you can place that item in your ship. There's not much to calculate.

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SGT FUNYOUN
Elysian Space Navy - 1st Fleet
#4 - 2013-01-24 20:23:16 UTC
Bill Serkoff2 wrote:
Ships and containers have a set amount of cargo volume, measured in cubic meters.
Items take up a set amount of cargo volume, measured in cubic meters.
Subtract the volume of the item from the volume of the cargo space, and you have your remaining empty space.


THANK YYYOOOUUU!!!

Thank you very much. I figured it was a simple calculation but, wasn't sure what the heck m3 meant.

Thanks.
SGT FUNYOUN
Elysian Space Navy - 1st Fleet
#5 - 2013-01-24 20:28:15 UTC
Batelle wrote:
an m3 is a cubic meter, which is a unit of measure of volume. It is the basic measure of volume in this game. Every item you can put in your ship has a volume measured in m3. If the free space in your ship, measured in m3, is larger than a given item, then you can place that item in your ship. There's not much to calculate.


Yes, the too big to fit thing is a given but, if one must calculate multiple items then it gets more complex.

However, what I was asking for was less, how to calculate volume to volume...

... and more of how to convert m3 of volume to Mass and back. I remember back before the Incursion update, there were several items on market that did not have an m3 in their descriptions. Conversion of mass to m3 to calculate if it'll fit in a cargohold was needed.

I suppose (and hope) that was remedied on the last few updates.
SGT FUNYOUN
Elysian Space Navy - 1st Fleet
#6 - 2013-01-24 20:29:46 UTC
But I suppose this was idiotic and null question now anyway.

Thank you for setting my head straight.

I mainly was asking what the heck and m3 was.
Batelle
Federal Navy Academy
#7 - 2013-01-24 20:43:52 UTC
SGT FUNYOUN wrote:

... and more of how to convert m3 of volume to Mass and back. I remember back before the Incursion update, there were several items on market that did not have an m3 in their descriptions. Conversion of mass to m3 to calculate if it'll fit in a cargohold was needed.


mass is only used for in-space physics, calculating propulsion mod speed boosts, figuring out wormhole collapses, and calculating fuel needs for jump bridges. When calculating mass, the mass of fitted or stored items is not considered at all. That aside, there is never any need to convert between mass and volume in this game, they are treated as completely separate and independent attributes.

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Schmata Bastanold
In Boobiez We Trust
#8 - 2013-01-24 20:45:36 UTC
How can somebody not know what m3 is? Especially that in game it is written properly as cubic unit should be.

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Markku Laaksonen
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#9 - 2013-01-24 21:08:25 UTC
Isn't the proper way to write m3 a superscript 3? Can you use sub/superscripts on these forums?

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SGT FUNYOUN
Elysian Space Navy - 1st Fleet
#10 - 2013-01-24 21:11:02 UTC
Yes, thank you. I was just simply confused.

Sometimes my ADHD hits hard, and I go a tad dyslexic.
Flakey Foont
#11 - 2013-01-24 22:23:13 UTC
I used to be dyslexic but now I am KO.
ITTigerClawIK
Galactic Rangers
#12 - 2013-01-25 15:45:29 UTC
it compleatly lamers terms or in traditional MMO terms, it would be the encumberance jsut remove the M3 and there ya have it :-P