User:Christoph Patrouette/Container

Ingame symbols for different sizes of containers, from left to right: small, medium and large.

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 assemble and jettinson them. Everybody is then free to scoop the container, even in High-Sec systems. 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 the main hangar and not in space.

Container Name	Capacity (m³)	Volume (m³)	Volume (Packaged) (m³)
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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Secure and Audit Log Secure Containers have the same functionality as the standard containers with the additional benefit of being secure, which means the items in it can be locked and unlocked for other players, secured with a password and deployed in space. Because of the latter, the skill Anchoring I is required to use these types of containers.

Container Name	Capacity (m³)	Volume (m³)	Volume (Packaged) (m³)
Small Audit Log Secure Container	120	100	10
Medium Audit Log Secure Container	390	325	33
Large Audit Log Secure Container	780	650	65

You have to wait three weeks after the last audit log entry to repackage an audit log container. A failed attempt to repackage an audit log container generates a new audit log entry, which resets the timer.

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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You have to wait three weeks after the last audit log entry to repackage an station container. A failed attempt to repackage an station container generates a new audit log entry, which resets the timer.

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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Jettison Container

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.

Overview

Container Type	Expanding	Password	Logging	Anchorable	Capacity
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

?Jetcans

?MTUs

?Mobile Depots

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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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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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