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Neok Skywalker
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#1 - 2011-11-22 14:42:28 UTC
I often have the problem to find something, which i accidently dropped in one of my hundreds of boxes inside my hangar, by drag and drop.
There is a nice search box on the upper right, but it doesnt search inside boxes.

So how do you find your one valuable item without looking all thousands of boxes ?
How do you find that remotely if you are even in a different station ?
Lutz Major
Austriae Est Imperare Orbi Universo
#2 - 2011-11-22 14:44:02 UTC
Neok Skywalker
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#3 - 2011-11-22 15:05:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Neok Skywalker
Thanks for the link.

So i need an external tool to find an item in eve ?

That obviously would be one the little things i want to be fixed. Because a search function which cant find items in boxes is not very useful.
Markata Lazair
Zephyr Corp
#4 - 2011-11-22 16:17:11 UTC
Or EveHQ, which does about 1,000 useful things including finding assets in containers and ship cargo holds....
Neok Skywalker
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#5 - 2011-11-22 16:33:22 UTC
Its nice to have 3rd party tools which do stuff, but wouldnt it be much better fix the search button in eve client ? Shocked
Kisuke Riva
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2011-11-22 16:39:59 UTC
Welcome to Eve, you must be new.

After I've learned to embrace the fact, that you need 3rd party tools to properly play this game, it actually added to the gaming experience. Try to look at it from this angle.
Markata Lazair
Zephyr Corp
#7 - 2011-11-22 16:42:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Markata Lazair
Honestly, I don't know what kind of resources are required to perform those searches, but I would rather not reduce game response to do those searches. Third-party software has a couple of advantages - it does not actually drag on the servers, but it also tends to have 'competitors' that develop really good stuff and don't have to worry about deadlines for the next expansion, etc.
Kisuke Riva
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2011-11-22 16:48:56 UTC
And some add so much to New Eden, imagine an Eve without eve-kill.org, evemaps.dotlan.net or Evemon. It's kinda like UI addons in other mmos but on a higher level. I love it.
Scrapyard Bob
EVE University
Ivy League
#9 - 2011-11-22 18:37:06 UTC
There are rumors that the asset search window may eventually search within containers (soon? anyone have a link?) - but for now it doesn't, so you're stuck using external tools.
RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#10 - 2011-11-23 04:51:26 UTC
Scrapyard Bob wrote:
There are rumors that the asset search window may eventually search within containers (soon? anyone have a link?) - but for now it doesn't, so you're stuck using external tools.


"Container Filter for Assets
Easily track down inventory you've squirreled away in great big storage units all around the universe."
ShockedShocked
http://www.eveonline.com/en/crucible/features/

"It's easy to speak for the silent majority. They rarely object to what you put into their mouths." -Abrazzar "the risk of having your day ruined by other people is the cornerstone with which EVE was built" -CCP Solomon
Scrapyard Bob
EVE University
Ivy League
#11 - 2011-11-23 06:07:03 UTC
Wonder if that is on Sisi yet?

Winter Summary thread mentions it (post #3, client change #26).
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=33091
RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#12 - 2011-11-23 07:06:58 UTC
That's how I found it, actually.

"It's easy to speak for the silent majority. They rarely object to what you put into their mouths." -Abrazzar "the risk of having your day ruined by other people is the cornerstone with which EVE was built" -CCP Solomon
Neok Skywalker
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#13 - 2011-11-23 08:24:41 UTC
Very nice, looking for the winter expansion. Big smile