EVE New Citizens Q&A

If they are rigged:

• Freighter or Jump Freighter with courier contracts
• Orca for BCs and smaller
• Fly them and go back in a pod or shuttle
• Repack and buy new rigs at the destination

If they aren't rigged, then repack them and:

• Freighter or Jump Freighter
• Orca
• Industrials

and then there's carriers for low sec...

I do consolidations form time to time myself, atm I have everything in two stations ^^

Cheers, but that do you mean that if I fit rigs they can't be unfitted? And therefore the ship can't be repackaged? I have no rigs yet.

Consider rigs to be like permanent modules, if you repackage your ship or remove the rigs they are destroyed, not a huge loss with small rigs as they're cheap and easy to build your own from salvage. I would suggest working your way up to the Mammoth if you can, then maybe fill the lows with expanded cargohold mods and perhaps even put cargohold optimization rigs to increase it's cargo space even more. I've done the whole shifting a load of gear from one side of high sec to the other and it can be a pain when you only have a small indy ship to haul with. You can repackage your ships if there are no rigs and obviously that will cut down the cargo space they take up.


If you know anyone willing to help out with a big ship to haul your gear then maybe that's an option until you can get yourself into a bigger hauler. If you join a player corp at any time I'm sure someone in corp would spare a bit of time to help you shift your assets, a handful of frigates to an experienced hauler is not a great deal to carry.

The SoE arc isnt that long, after you finish you can just go back to your home station, just bring a few ships and spare mods.

For the SoE arc, leave all your stuff in one station and go on the arc with one combat ship properly fitted. Return to your stuff once the arc is done. Think it as a road trip around EVE for fun and profit.

Any loot you get along the way you can just reprocess and sell as minerals for ISK (every station tends to have buy orders for minerals) while keeping any items you think you need in your combat ship cargo during the trip.

As for rigs; Once fitted they cannot be removed, only destroyed. Repackaging a ship ("putting it back into shrinkwrap") requires removal of all fittings, which means any rigs would be lost. Hence the difference between rigged/unrigged ships. Unrigged you can just strip fittings and repackage and most smaller ships become very manageable to move even in tech 1 haulers.

Rigged ships can be transported but they take a lot more space and the only way to do it on haulers/freighters is to courier contract the ship (which puts a "shipping wrapping" around it) and stupidly since you cannot set up a contract for yourself, you need two characters to do it (can't wait until CCP fixes this crap... should be able to just "wrap for shipping" to self-haul stuff you could haul through courier contract anyway).

Otherwise unpackaged/fitted ships can only be put in ship maintenance bays, mostly Orca (which explains why that ship is fairly popular even among those who never mine) or Carrier (for low sec/0.0 movements as Carriers cannot enter highsec systems)

I like to keep my assets organized. When I move to new area, I find a station I can use as local "base" and then store all items I need in that area there. Depending on how far my old base(s) are, I might move all/some items from old base to new one, or just leave them at old base waiting for me to later go back to that area.

For cheap items I can also just sell them at old base and buy new ones at new base if I don't lose too much ISK doing that.

If I do decide to move items, I check how much I have and whether I will move them by myself or contract moving to other players. If I can fit most items into my Mammoth, leaving only 1-2 ships I need to fly manually, I can do that, using cheap shuttles for flying back instead of pod travel.

If I have far too many items to move by myself, I contract moving to Red Frog Freight. That costs 500,000 ISK + 350,000 ISK per jump, and package can be 860,000 m3 and worth max 1,000,000,000 ISK.

When making Courier Contract so that other players will move your items, allways make sure "collateral" is more than total worth of your items. If contractor decides to steal your items, you will automatically get that collateral back. If you do not set any collateral, contractor can just accept your contract and take all the items for himself and you get nothing.

For new player paying few million ISK for moving items 10 jumps might seem too much. In that case just consider other options like making multiple trips. And definitely train for one of the Industrial ships, personally I like Mammoth.

There's at least one story about someone who made about sixty billion isk, by accepting contracts, then looking inside to see if it was worth moving, or just stealing. Someone was moving around 20 million units of Megacyte. with a collateral of just a few hundred million. Teeny tiny mistake on their part.

just dont get to close with your ships, they are usually easily replaceable. you really dont need that many frigs for the sisters arc

That is level 1 Epic Arc, and most of it should be doable with frigate. Few battles in the end are harder so you might want cruiser there.

(Frigate is generally recommended for level 1 missions like that epic arc, cruiser is recommended for level 2 missions.)

After a while you'll have stuff all over the place. What happens is that it starts out with one or two ships that you leave behind because its simply easier to buy nearer wherever you're moving to. Things don't get any better after that

It usually works out OK but check the fits if you come back to ships a year or two later as there's bound to be one or two "what the hell was I thinking?" fits