EVE General Discussion

Assuming you're asking up-front why some items are not stacking, please check;

- Are the items repackaged? (right-click > repackage). Unpackaged items do not stack

- Are they damaged / used? Things like laser crystals get "used" and then cannot be stacked

- Are they exactly the same 'type'? For example T1 and T2 items don't stack, likewise named/meta items.

There is something to be said for the idea of knowing you have (for example) a hundred 3.2 litre smallblock V8 engines in stock - but it's also worth knowing that 80 are in pristine factory condition and that the other 20 have been used - of course it would also be worth knowing that three of them are fire damaged, four have done two-hundred-thousand miles and the other fourteen have only been run in but...

That's like saying family members should stack. Or cars. Cars is a more graspable analogy: If you had an interface for all the cars in your family, would you want it to just say "there are 3 cars in your garage" when one is the family SUV, another is your daughter's... pink, two-seat sports car, and the third is your uncle's rusty old truck? You would end up "undocking" one at random, and trying to drive the five little ones to the cinema in the barbie cruiser and having to stuff two and a half of them in the trunk...

The technical explanation is just that: Each "unpackaged" item is considered unique, and this is necessary so that the game can keep track of what ship is fitted with which modules etc.. If this weren't the case, then you could end up having two Megathrons in your hangar, but the game wouldn't know which one was fitted with what, or whether they both had 23.7% hull damage, and so on. Works the same for items. One T2 afterburner could have lots of heat damage, while the other had none, and the game would not be able to determine which one you were trying to repair.

Just imagine if everyone you knew was named "Bob", and you were only ever allowed to identify them as "Bob" - not even "the Bob with long black hair", or "Bob who was here an hour ago" - simply "Bob". It would be chaos. Nobody would know who you were talking to, or about.

That's why only identical items can be stacked, and only repackaged items are identical.

While Gallente family members only stack on occasion

I prefer Jacob Holland's analogy since he's talking about the same items with different parameters.

I do agree that assembling/repackaging items is a bit lame, all pristine items should behave like packaged items imo. Next to that it would be nice if the background of an item would become red when it's damaged, the more damaged it is, the more intense its red background is. This way you can easily see what items are damaged (Crystals are also damaged) and need repairing or needs to be replaced soon.

OP, don't forget you can search items by name which can save you some scrolling.

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