EVE New Citizens Q&A

Ok, perhaps I'm just too old, or generally to dumb, or my brain is just wired the wrong way, but I wonder whether I should just give up on this game. After f***** eight months in this game I've just spend half an hour trying to do something totally basic and simple that will take about a second ***if you know how to do it***---and I couldnt do it.

Its this: I bought a couple of frigs, and I wanted to transport them with my Bestower. Ships you bought, contrary to other items, dont show in the item hangar, but in personal assets. (Why???? they could just as well show un-assembled in the item hanar, no?) To get them into your hangar, you have to assemble them. If I assemble them, they wont fit into the frighter, but I dont find a way to get them in non-assembled, packaged form into either the freighter or into the item hangar. Right-clicking them doesnt show any way, dragging them with the mouse doesnt work. So apparently Im once again not seeing something totally obvious, or once again to do a simple, basic thing you have to do some secret dance steps or curious movements with the mouse or whatever. As many times before, I fail to think out the right search string for google to find a solution.

Yeah, Im *whining* here. Enjoy the salty liquid.

Anyone tell me the, surely totally simple, solution, though?

Ships always show in the ship hangar, despite their state.

https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Inventory_window

You might want to add your assets to the station menu:
ESC > General Settings > Station > Merge "items" and "ships" into station panel

You'll find EVE a lot less frustrating if you just ask before you do get frustrated

Btw, you can just click-and-drag the packaged ships from the ship hangar into your bestower.

You don't need to assemble them.

EVERYTHING shows in the assets window, regardless if it is a ship or an item. It is for locating things, not manipulating them. Inventory is for manipulating.

If you are not in the ship, you can right-click it in your inventory and repackage it.

You were probably dragging from assets, not inventory.

Assets (ALT T): icon looks like a safe. It is for locating items.
Inventory (ALT C): Icon looks like an open container. It is for manipulating items.

Hey, really, I dont want to be complicated, but new-bought ships for me *never* showed in the inventory, but only in the Assets. The only way to make them usable so far has been clicking at them in the Assets window and "assemble" them....only after that they use to show in the inventory. I guess, there must be another setting that is different between your and my installation.

Any bought ship should appear in your "ship hangar", unassembled or assembled. Not in your item hangar.

Unassembled ships just don't show up in the quick drop down menu of the ship hangar (as you can't board them yet). Click Ship hangar itself and voila, they are there.

Ok, perhaps a screenshot really helps here:

http://rat-service.de/temp/assets.jpg

......from the very beginning, no bought ship ever appeared in my Inventory before I right-clicked at it in the Assets and "assembled" it. This drove me nuts and cost me an hour or two when I bought a ship for the first time.

I convo'd.

Problem solved

As solved by Tau, for future new players with the same Q:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/k4q4wvv163n91wh/assets.jpg?dl=0

That's cool! ....but allow me to modify your graphic a tad to add the advice that actually I needed: Before Tau told me, I actually never CLICKED AT SHIP HANGAR. Perhaps very dumb, but perhaps, as I realize now, not really so dumb, cause EVE at this point moves away from Windows standards that are very deeply ingrained in most of us: In the list on the left side Ship Hangar is opened, and the assembled ships are listed there---according to normal Windows UI standards that means nothing else but these same ships would appear on the right side if you clicked at Ship Hangar. Obviouisly, EVE is not a standard Windows program, but the Inventory just looks so much like a standard Explorer-like display that one, or at least I, is expecting the same behavior.

Anyway: the slightly modified graphic:

http://rat-service.de/temp/assets.jpg