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.

• Containers can not be put into other containers, therefore it is impossible to build any kind of 'folder tree'.
• Items inside a container can not be repackaged, repaired, contracted, sold or delivered - they have to be moved to the item hangar for these actions.
• A ship can not reload ammo from a container, although the ammo can be loaded by dragging and dropping it into the weapons icon or fitting window.

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)
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 Container and Audit Log Secure Container have the same basic functionality as the standard container, but their unique features 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

TODO: Logging details

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

Container Name	Capacity (m³)	Volume (m³)	Volume (Packaged) (m³)
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

You have to wait three weeks after the last audit log entry to repackage or rename an audit log container. A failed attempt to repackage or rename 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 or rename an station container. A failed attempt to repackage or rename 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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Overview

Container Type	Expanding Space	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

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 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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TODO: details on how to share 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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You can have them in a ship in a packaged state, they will automatically assemble when jettisoned/launched. I have tested this, it works. An enormous frieght container can be hauled to location in any ship with at least 2500m3 cargo, and then launched to give a floating can with 250,000m3 capacity. They can not be anchored or locked, but do not seem to despawn either. I have had several of different sizes sitting at safe spots for over 3 months and they are still there. the only real down side to using them other than not being able to lock them, is they have zero structural points. they can be destroyed in one shot from a noob ship with a civilian gun, just like jetcans. The advantage they have is only when compared to jetcans, they are basically a jetcan as far as utility goes, but are much larger, and never despawn. They can not be scaned down, So using one at a safe spot for storage is fairly safe as they can only be found if they scan you down while you are on grid with it. they can also be dropped inside a pos shield for storage, but again can not be locked.

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