EVE New Citizens Q&A

I'm not sure I properly understand the situation you're describing. If you're selling your cargo in different stations, you can offload just the cargo you want to sell in the station you're in and leave the rest onboard.

I've certainly left items behind in a station before, but they were usually items that I purchased from the market and forgot to load.

Mistakes have consequences in Eve. If you forget to load your cargo - you need to go back and get it. It happens to all of us.

Generally the ship you choose to haul cargo to market will not be the same as the ship you use for ratting - it does not seem unreasonable to me that you should need to transfer cargo from your warship to your cargo ship.

Nor is it reasonable to expect the game to automatically move stuff from your hangar to your ship when you are ready to go to market. Some of us have a mix of things in our hangars - stuff we want to sell and stuff we want to keep. How can the game tell them apart?

as has been pointed out already how you deal with loot is a very personal thing. Everyone has their own way of doing it.

The important things that I feel need to be pointed out here are:

-There is nothing forcing you to loot. In fact it is usually more profitable to speed run missions and leave the loot, especially in high sec where MTUs typically get scanned down and blown up.

-You can roll up into your nearest trade hub and just unload everything and sell all of it to the highest buy order, which is fairly easy.

-You can leave all of your loot in the station that you collected it at and create a contract for all of it and let someone else worry about what to do with it. You will have to make the contract cheap enough that someone else will be willing to buy the stuff for profit reason if you pick this option.

-There are tools like eve-central.com that can help you estimate the value of items

-if you select a bunch of items and get a reprocessing quote, most of the items that are worth selling rather than melting will be flagged as such.

Bottom line is that this is a game and a game with no set play methodology. It's a sandbox and as such I recommend that if you are not enjoying a certain aspect of the game that you not participate in it. Some of us are loot whores and love sorting through the stuff and others are not. That is fine. The market gives us all many options for doing what we want and not doing what we don't want.

I loot and salvage all wrecks, then take everything to my main Base Of Operations and save all high value items. All the low value items are checked for sell price verses reprocess price and then I go with whichever one is higher.

I save all of the minerals and salvage items to use later for production. All of the high value items are saved to fit on ships in the future. If I don't have any use for the items, I then sell those on the Market.

Probably a good idea to just stockpile the loot and salvage items at various stations. Then once every couple of months just take an Industrial Hauler ship and go collect up all the items and transport them to your main Base Of Operations or major Trade Hub to sell.



DMC

I just pile all the junk up in a corner until I run out of isk. I then go dump most of it at a trade hub taking advantage of the 'sell all' feature. I know I could make a lot more isk spending time sorting through it all, but usually I have better things to do. I want to blow stuff up and explore, not run an interstellar garage sale.

I have a filter. If the item is less than 100,000 ISK ir gets reprocessed,

Then I look at the remaining items. Some items, like smartbombs, are only purchased at there material cost, so they get reprocessed too.

What remains I sell based on quality. Some memory work here, i.e. 'scout' or 'prototype' will sell where the lesser items won't. Typically use the comparison tool, and sort the items. The ones with the larger bonuses and lowest fitting requirements are the ones worth selling.

I am starting a pile of Heavy Defender Missiles, I thin kI might turn them in to a throne.