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Ship Purchase Conumdrum
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Anthrax Doolaly
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2013-10-10 15:18:39 UTC
I am sure this question must have been asked many times before on this forum but my searches have proved unsuccessful so I will ask here.

I have just purchased a ship that is one jump away from me, how do I go about picking it up? I could use one of my ships but then that would have to be left behind as I can only fly one ship at once. I know that the new ship can be re-packaged to make it smaller (it's a Retriever btw) , but would it fit in my Vexor?

Another option I thought of is to pod my way there, but, of course, there are safety considerations to take into account.

What do other people do on these occasions?
Elena Thiesant
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2013-10-10 15:24:55 UTC
Undock in your pod, make the one system jump, fetch ship
Or
Undock in your pod, dock at another station in system to get a free rookie ship, fly that to the location the new ship is at and then destroy the rookie ship once you're there.

A packaged retriever is 3750m3. A vexor's (base) cargo hold is 480m3
Anthrax Doolaly
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2013-10-10 15:27:30 UTC
Many thanks Elana, both great ideas, I will ponder at my leisure. :)
Batelle
Federal Navy Academy
#4 - 2013-10-10 15:28:28 UTC
shuttles

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RavenPaine
RaVeN Alliance
#5 - 2013-10-10 16:14:45 UTC
Fly a rookie ship or shuttle and sell it when you get to your new ship. Podding over there is *ok*, but any ship is better.
Holgrak Blacksmith
Prophets of Motav
#6 - 2013-10-10 18:57:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Holgrak Blacksmith
I hear about people who spend hours making sure all assets are positioned in exactly the right place, but I think theyre in the minority. Just get used to having assets all over the galaxy.

This has it's plus points too, often I'll get blown up, or urgently need a hauler, and there's one a jump or two away that I dumped two years ago.
Salpad
Carebears with Attitude
#7 - 2013-10-11 02:21:40 UTC
Anthrax Doolaly wrote:
What do other people do on these occasions?


Shuttle. Or pod, but shuttles are faster, and are much safer to fly on AFK autopilot. But if its just one jump, then it's not ardorous to manually fly to the station in the pod, enter the ship, and fly back on autopilot.
Salpad
Carebears with Attitude
#8 - 2013-10-11 02:23:11 UTC
Holgrak Blacksmith wrote:
I hear about people who spend hours making sure all assets are positioned in exactly the right place, but I think theyre in the minority. Just get used to having assets all over the galaxy.

This has it's plus points too, often I'll get blown up, or urgently need a hauler, and there's one a jump or two away that I dumped two years ago.


It bothers me to have a cluttered Assets window. Not a lot. I some times go years between cleanups, but it does feel good to consolidate all my crap in no more than 6-8 stations, or at the most 10. Mind you, a lot of that is AFK flying, and it does help to have a Freighter.
Dato Koppla
Spaghetti Militia
#9 - 2013-10-11 05:25:22 UTC
Holgrak Blacksmith wrote:
I hear about people who spend hours making sure all assets are positioned in exactly the right place, but I think theyre in the minority. Just get used to having assets all over the galaxy.

This has it's plus points too, often I'll get blown up, or urgently need a hauler, and there's one a jump or two away that I dumped two years ago.


I normally just use courier contracts to move everything so it's not too cluttered, it's cheap and effortless.
Jacob Holland
Weyland-Vulcan Industries
#10 - 2013-10-11 12:39:49 UTC
Salpad wrote:
It bothers me to have a cluttered Assets window. Not a lot. I some times go years between cleanups, but it does feel good to consolidate all my crap in no more than 6-8 stations, or at the most 10.

Shocked
If I logged in and saw less than, say thirty stations? in my Assets list I would be panicing...
The patch which changed the slider to be proportional to the ratio of visible to invisible window contents made things rather tricky as it's quite difficult to get the mouse on in some of mine.
Then again I do move around the cluster quite a bit so I have "bases" all over the place for different purposes.
Kery Nysell
#11 - 2013-10-11 15:19:24 UTC
Shuttles, sold (probably at a loss) where the new ship is. Those can be quite cheap, 20K to 50K depending on the region.

Or an Industrial ship, most of the "general hauling" ones have more than enough cargo space to fit a repackaged barge.

If you're a miner, you really should look into industrial ships, those need "Racial" Frigate to 3 and "Racial" Industrial to 1 at the minimum to be flown, and they offer huge benefits to a mining character.

...
Termy Rockling
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#12 - 2013-10-11 15:26:27 UTC
Also if you are miner you really really want to get gallente industrials, for the big mineral and orebays.
Ginger Barbarella
#13 - 2013-10-11 22:04:17 UTC
Anthrax Doolaly wrote:
I am sure this question must have been asked many times before on this forum but my searches have proved unsuccessful so I will ask here.

I have just purchased a ship that is one jump away from me, how do I go about picking it up? I could use one of my ships but then that would have to be left behind as I can only fly one ship at once. I know that the new ship can be re-packaged to make it smaller (it's a Retriever btw) , but would it fit in my Vexor?

Another option I thought of is to pod my way there, but, of course, there are safety considerations to take into account.

What do other people do on these occasions?



You're kidding, right?

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Naradius
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2013-10-12 02:05:06 UTC
The first time I come into this forum in ages....and the first post I read....






What?






...leaving astounded

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Conius Mar
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#15 - 2013-10-12 10:43:51 UTC
Haven't been on the forums in ages, then I read this..........







CCP need to invent another useless tutorial around undocking ^^
Asaryuu
Liquid Words
#16 - 2013-10-13 01:51:19 UTC
LoL I first saw this thread 2 days ago and i though to myself.



THIS GUY..... I want to give him all my stuff and watch his head fog up as he is completely dumb founded on how to leave the station to get it.
To mare
Advanced Technology
#17 - 2013-10-13 07:14:43 UTC
OCD is a bad thing
Barrogh Habalu
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#18 - 2013-10-15 10:39:13 UTC
Conius Mar wrote:
CCP need to invent another useless tutorial around undocking ^^

I'm pretty sure the very first tutorial mission involves you undocking in a pod to pick up a noobship somewhere in space...

Future of T3 cruisers - multi-tool they aspired to be instead of sledgehammer they have become
Roseline Penshar
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#19 - 2013-10-15 10:47:38 UTC
if it's HS i use pod, if it's LS i use any ship that have fast align, if it's Null i use any ship that have hi agility and hi max speed with MWD (run from bubbles)
Bobinu
Unsober
Last Picks
#20 - 2013-10-15 11:59:54 UTC
Anyone else use there Assets to navigate around EVE?
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