EVE New Citizens Q&A

So I took the advice to try the Sisters Of Eve... a few jumps later I am at their station... look in cargo... empty... eek!

So went back to Academy station where everything is.

What is the most efficient way to move things around?

Or should it matter, as in leave it where it is?

If you are going to be nomadic (which the Sisters of EVE arc kinda requires you to be) you are going to want to do one of three things...

- have an Industrial ship (race doesn't matter, but for Gallente you are looking at either an Iteron V or Nerus). Even with low skills, it should have enough cargo capacity for a PACKAGED frigate or destroyer + equipment (NOTE: to package a ship, leave it (either by right-clicking> leaving ship or jumping into another ship) > right-click the ship > "repackage").
Be aware though that Industrial ships tend to be on the "flimsy" side of things... so take precautions. The more you load them full of stuff and less tank you have, the more invite a target you become to "suicide gankers."

- carry everything you need in your standard mission ship, unload most of it at the next station, and continue doing the missions. Rinse and repeat.

- courier contracts. This is NOT something I recommend a newbie do... simply because it requires some knowledge of the market value of your stuff (to set the proper collateral) and it takes time.
Highlight everything you want to move > right click > make contract > select courier contract > type in the destination system, number of days the contract will be up, the number of days you are willing to wait once the contract is accepted, and set the collateral price.


Eventually you will figure out how you want to distribute your assets in the game... if you want to.

Personally... I like to consolidate my stuff in as few places as possible with only a few "depots" here and there for "just in case" situations.
But then you have people like my corpmates who scatter their crap across the game because of "laziness."

So you noticed there's no universal "cheat" bank where everything is stored :D

As the nice people above have already said, you have to shift stuff physically around from station to station if you want to keep the items.

I generally just liquidise (turn into ISK by selling) and then move and buy my stuff again.

You say to the guy in your corp that has a freighter "Hey I need my stuff moved." and then they move it for you.

We're communists so there is no payment, he just does it because it is is duty and if he complains he will be shot.

Yes you will need to get over the whole having all of your stuff with you where ever you go idea. You will either have stuff all over the place or constantly be OCD selling and moving stuff so that you don't have station lists over 100 long when you open personal assets.

I tend to just leave stuff where ever it is and only take what I need right now with me. Every once in a while like once every year or two I'll go around and collect random stuff to consolidate. When CCP did the reprocessing changes a while back I spent many hours every single night for over a week collecting all of my stuff into one location to melt what was not sellable. It may have even been over 2 weeks.

I'm OCD enough to want to keep my assets list "neat".

You transfer your stuff by placing it in the cargo of whatever ship you're flying over. Industrial ships have a large cargo if you fill up the low slots with Expanded Cargo modules, and you can cram some of the smaller ships in them if you "repackage" them. Otherwise, the bigger ships you'll have to manually fly to your new station (and buy and fly shuttles back to the old station to bring the rest of your ships over).

Every pilot should train to fly one of the basic industrial ships; there is a lot of junk in this game that will need to be transported (mostly because you get more money for it at the "trade hub" stations).

Otherwise, another method of transport is: sell all your stuff except for one ship, fly that ship to the new place, then buy all the stuff again from the market. This game does not have account-bound items; everything can be bought, and there are enough traders that most places are stocked with pretty much everything.

A final method is to put all your stuff in a courier contract and let someone else transport it for you, for a fee. Be careful to set enough of a collateral price so you get your money if they decide to steal your stuff, and pay well enough to entice someone to move your junk for you.