EVE New Citizens Q&A

I'm still trying to get used to how different some of the mechanics in Eve are from other games. In particular the market and loot systems. I'm used to other games where you just take all the loot you don't want and sell it. However with the limits on open orders and the fact that there are so many versions of every item it doesn't seem like that works very well in Eve. Am I missing something or am I destined to have hundreds of items I don't really want clogging up my inventory in station?

There's very little "trash loot" in eve. Almost everything that drops from npcs has some kind of value to some player out there.

You will almost always get more money setting prices yourself instead of just clicking "sell", however this takes more time and effort.

You have to judge yourself if that time and effort is worth manually setting prices, or are you better of just hitting "sell all" and going about your business.

As with the order limitations, again pick what is most valuable and sell those before you go for the 10k isk items

You can always try out Pro Synergy's service. They have a BOL (Bag of Loot) service that might appeal to you.

I use their salvaging service for missions, since I would otherwise not loot and salvage. In the end I make more ISK spending time running missions and get a nice little ISK bump every week from the salvage and loot.

Indeed the entire backbone of eve is the player driven economy. Pretty much everything in game has a value. If you don't like dealing with the loot you do have the option of not gathering it. In most cases speed running missions is more isk per hour than looting and salvaging anyway.

However like others have said you can set some arbitrary limit or do something like set a filter and filter out all meta 4 modules and reprocess everything else.

In the past I have seen apps that you download and use an api key to pull a list of your assets and determine reprocessed values. These are old apps that I doubt have kept up with there have been module change and reprocessing changes so I don't recommend them however if you would like to experiment with them go ahead.

There is a reddit thread on this and in there I saw someone mention that in game if you go to reprocess items there is some type of indication as to which items you might not want to melt down. Also you could group items and put them in station containers. When you open the station container there is an estimated isk value in the lower right-hand corner. You could then select-all and drag the stuff to your hangar bay and get a reprocessing quote and see exactly how many of each mineral you will get. Evemon does have a mineral worksheet that you can use to enter mineral quantities and get a total value so then you could compare the isk value of the minerals versus the estimated isk value of the loot. Keep in mind that refining can vary depending on your location and skills as well as implants but that is another discussion .

Eve can be spreadsheets in space if you like spreadsheets but there is no need for it to be that way. Like I have said you can not bother with the loot or use blanket judgments to sell off or melt down large portions of it which is probably a better use of your time than sorting through it.

I will mention that Damage Control Units of any meta are valuable as well as higher meta medium (heavy) missile launchers. Often things used a lot in PvP like warp scramblers and webs are valuable also.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=406166&find=unread

2 threads on pretty much the exact same thing posted within about 24 hours of each other.

I setup inventory filters.

Meta 4+ : Keep or sell via sell-orders.
Value > 99,999 ISK : sell via sell-orders
Value < 100,000 ISK : "Trash"

The trash I can't be bothered to sell, so I reprocess it (I get 55% of the minerals), though selling it via mass-sell to buy-orders is probably a decent strategy too.

EDIT: An alternative is to dump everything into a freight container, and make a contract for it when it is full. There are web tools you can copy-and-paste (CTRL-A CTRL-C CTRL-V) the content list into to get the ballpark price.

As stated, there are skills that affect reprocessing.

However, I think those are the same skills that affect stuff like Mining lasers and Yield and ewww, who wants to train those.

To each their own I guess but I find that the nearly 50% reprocessing fee is a bit too high for my liking.

Like I said, don't throw those 10k isk items in the reprocessing bin. Stockpile them until you have a stack of 10 or 20, then sell them all for the 100 - 200 thousand isk they're actually worth.

Less effort and time spent for more isk at the end of the day

Thanks, I'll have to look more closely into just reprocessing stuff. The low-ball prices seem really common which is why I never do the sell immediately. It seems like the bid/ask spread is sometimes 2x or more. I see lots of people offering 10%-20% of what the sellers are asking for. Seems like lots of time to manage sell orders on every single item so reprocessing and only selling the minerals might work better.