User:Christoph Patrouette/Container
Containers (often referred to as cans) are ingame items that can be assembled in the Item Hangar of a station or citadel, placed in a ship's cargo hold or deployed in space as a way to store, share and sort items. There are five different container types that can be bought on the market, which differ in their functionality and purpose.
Standard Container
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A standard cargo container, used for common freight. |
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Standard containers are comparatively small and used in ships that dont have the capacity of a hauler or freighter to increase the size of their cargo space. Since standard containers have a higher capacity than volume, pilots can actually gain space by putting them into their ships. Getting mutiple smaller ones instead of a bigger container is less efficient and thereby standard containers are generally not used to sort or seperate cargo.
Although there is the option to 'Launch for Self' when right-clicking them in the cargo hold of a ship in space, this will simply jettinson them in their assembled state. This does not anchor them and other pilots can scoop the container, though doing so in a High-Sec system will generate a suspect timer. Be advised that the now assembled container is much larger and might not fit into the cargo hold again, since items can only be repackaged in a hangar.
Container Name | Capacity (m³) | Volume (m³) | Volume (Packaged) (m³) |
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Small Standard Container | 120 | 100 | 10 |
Medium Standard Container | 390 | 325 | 33 |
Large Standard Container | 780 | 650 | 65 |
Secure Container & Audit Log Secure Container
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This medium audit log container is fitted with a password-protected security lock. |
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In principle, Secure Container and Audit Log Secure Container have the same functionality as the standard container. The unique feature of these two types is their ability to be deployed in space and being secure, which means that the items in them can be locked and unlocked by players and access to the container as a whole can be protected with a password. This makes them ideal to ad hoc share inventory space and items with a small group of people without the need to build a POS or even citadel.
When deployed, last 30 days in space and every access will reset this timer. To anchor them, the skill Anchoring I is required, but not to use them as containers.
Audit Log Secure Containers and Station Containers have a log attached to them
Container Name | Capacity (m³) | Volume (m³) | Volume (Packaged) (m³) |
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Small Audit Log Secure Container | 120 | 100 | 10 |
Medium Audit Log Secure Container | 390 | 325 | 33 |
Large Audit Log Secure Container | 780 | 650 | 65 |
Container Name | Capacity (m³) | Volume (m³) | Volume (Packaged) (m³) |
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Small Secure Container | 120 | 100 | 10 |
Medium Secure Container | 390 | 325 | 33 |
Large Secure Container | 780 | 650 | 65 |
Huge Secure Container | 1950 | 1500 | 150 |
Giant Secure Container | 3900 | 3000 | 300 |
Station Container
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This is a Station Container. It is fitted with a password-protected security lock and computerized inventory auditing. Although the construction of a Station Container is much like that of other Cargo Containers a Station Container is far too big to fit in a ship's cargo hold and is only used for storage and inventory management at stations. |
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Freight Container
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A massive cargo container, used for inter-regional freight; most commonly used in freighter cargo bays. |
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Overview
Container Type | Expanding Space | Password | Logging | Anchorable | Capacity |
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Standard Container | 120 - 780 | ||||
Secure Container | 120 - 3900 | ||||
Audit Log Container | 120 - 780 | ||||
Station Container | 1.000.000 - 100.000.000 | ||||
Freight Container | 1.000 - 250.000 |
Other Container
Jettison Container
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This cargo container is flimsily constructed and may not survive the rigors of space for more than an hour or so. |
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This is a special container, in that it can not be build or bought. Instead this container spawns whenever items get jettisoned into space, which it then contains. The container can not be scooped to the cargo hold and only lasts about two hours in space, since technically it counts as space debries for the game engine - like ship wrecks. They have a capacity of 27.500 m³ and items can be freely dropped into and recovered from them which makes them ideal for minig operations [link to jetcan mining here]. Once all items have been removed, the jetcan despawns.
Mobile Tractor Unit
Mobile Depot
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I loot a lot of secure and audit log containers form explorers I explode. For some reason they think It keeps their loot safe or something... It doesn't. The can can drop just like any other item (if it drops, it will contain all items inside, the is no separate drop roll for the contents, this makes it a bit of an all or nothing affair...) once looted, I am now the new owner of the can, and have the option to retrieve the password, set a new one, reprocess the can, etc... |
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?sharing containers within a corporation
http://www.eve-wiki.net/index.php?title=Cargo_Containers
https://eveinfo.net/wiki/ind~6563.htm
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Can secure containers be probed out? As of Apocrypha, no. Secure containers CANNOT be probed down. |
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