User:O'b Haru Sen

Sophomore O'b Haru Sen (( ._.)) dutifully working towards eventual graduation... (-_o)

I recently started to do minor edits in the wiki, planning to do larger ones as soon as I feel competent enough. If I am doing anything wrong or badly, please let me know, I have a robust ego :)

todo

• create Containers page

done

• check skill attributes after Odyssey 1.1 skill tree changes and edit several pages: Messing with your Head, Skills and Learning
• add details to Killboard
• add MTU issues after Rubicon 1.0 and delete them again after 1.1
• various grammar, spelling and updating cleanups

Containers

Overview

Container	price	capacity	volume	packaged	mass	structure	pwd	log	sig radius	comment
Small Standard	~3k ISK	120 m3	100 m3	10 m3	10k kg		no	no
Medium Standard	~10k ISK	390 m3	325 m3	33 m3	100k kg	10 HP	no	no	3 shots
Large Standard	~42k ISK	780 m3	650 m3	65 m3	1M kg		no	no
Small Audit Log Secure	~200k ISK	120 m3	100 m3	10 m3	10k kg	100k HP	yes	yes
Medium Audit Log Secure	~200k ISK*	390 m3	325 m3	33 m3	100k kg	1M HP	yes	yes
Large Audit Log Secure	~450k ISK*	780 m3	650 m3	65 m3	1M kg	10M HP	yes	yes
Small Secure	~6k ISK	120 m3	100 m3	10 m3	10k kg	50k HP	yes	no	100 m	advertisements
Medium Secure	~30k ISK	390 m3	325 m3	33 m3	100k kg	50k HP	yes	no	325 m
Large Secure	~50k ISK	780 m3	650 m3	65 m3	1M kg	500k HP	yes	no	650 m
Huge Secure	~120k ISK	1950 m3	1500 m3	150 m3	3M kg	500k HP	yes	no	1500 m
Giant Secure	~170k ISK	3900 m3	3000 m3	300 m3	6M kg	500k HP	yes	no	3000 m
Small Freight	~20k ISK	1000 m3	1000 m3	100 m3	1M kg	10 HP	no	no	2 shots
Medium Freight	~45k ISK	5000 m3	5000 m3	500 m3	1M kg		no	no	4 shots
Large Freight	~150k ISK	10k m3	10k m3	1000 m3	1M kg		no	no
Huge Freight	~200k ISK	50k m3	50k m3	5000 m3	1M kg		no	no
Giant Freight	~200k ISK	120k m3	120k m3	1200 m3	1M kg		no	no
Enormous Freight	~400k ISK	250k m3	250k m3	2500 m3	1M kg		no	no
Station	~30k ISK	1M m3	1M m3	10k m3	3M kg	10M HP	yes	yes
Station Vault	~300k ISK	10M m3	5M m3	50k m3	6M kg	10M HP	yes	yes
Station Warehouse	~1B ISK	100M m3	10M m3	100k m3	18M kg	100M HP	yes	yes

Prices are lowest trade hub sell prices in eve-central 2014-03-10, and provided for orientation only. ISK* denotes very low trade volume.

Data is from in-game info. Note some inconsistencies e.g. packaged volume of huge vs. giant freight containers. Also note that HP and signature radius seems to be missing for some variants. HP* denotes value is from in-game tests.

Secure C: This Giant container is fitted with a password-protected security lock. Note: the container must be anchored to enable password functionality. Anchoring containers is only possible in solar systems with a security status of 0.7 or lower. Requirements: Anchoring Level I

AL Secure C: This large audit log container is fitted with a password-protected security lock. Requirements: Anchoring Level I

todo

• measure sig radius by Scorpion lock time: sfc 10s, msc 23s
• test medium & large freight container HP in Orca (cargo, lock time) and frigate (civilian railgun)
• all in table have blueprint on market
• life time
• health
• what does audit log track?
• repackaging (damage, 3 week station timer)
• containers can be named, not in ship, (in space?)
• no people in containers
• Containers can not be anchored closer than 5km to each other or to other bodies in space.
• You can jettison cargo, i.e. create a jetcan, only every 2 minutes.
• scanning and double-wrapping:
  Cargo containers are scanable even inside a ship's cargo hold. There are only two ways to make cargo un-scanable: either use a Blockade-Runner which has an un-scanable cargo hold or set up a courier contract for a secure container, the latter will make the container "double-wrapped" and un-scanable in the couriers cargo hold.

open questions

• can freight containers be jettisoned/anchored at all?
• freight containers have no pwd/log?
• what is sig radius of non-secure containers?
• do standard containers have 10HP?
• what is mass relevant for?

Introduction

Containers in EVE come in a variety of forms: cargo and station containers, with and without password protection and audit logging. They can be jettisoned from a ship but also anchored in space. They can be used to sort your loot, as in-space advertisement, for mining, as a supply depot, for can baiting unassuming noobs, to increase cargo space and more. In space they have a life time of between 2 hours (unanchored) and 30 days (anchored) and larger anchored containers have enough health to only be destroyed by a determined player.

Use Cases

• jet-canning:
  a miner jettisoning the mined ore into space creating an object labeled "Cargo Container" in-game but called Jettison Container or jetcan here for clarity. This jetcan has 27500 m3 capacity and can be filled up while mining and hauled to station later. This reduces hauling time for solo miners or lets a miner easily cooperate with a dedicated hauler in a mining op. However it also risks loosing the ore to anybody who picks it up and doesn't mind the resulting suspect status (yellow flashy). The lifetime of a jetcan is about 2 hours or until next downtime.
• secure container mining:
  while mining put your ore into a secure container to be picked up later by you or a dedicated hauler. Using a Giant Secure Container instead of a jetcan removes the risk of losing it but it is much smaller (3900 m3) and requires buying it and hauling it into space.
• inventory sorting:
  in station put your modules and ships into containers named by category
• organize resource access in a corp:
  in a corp, use different containers and corp roles to only let specific people access certain resources
• can baiting:
  jettison a container into space so an unexperienced player may pick it up and become a suspect (yellow flashy) so you can shoot him. Note that this is griefing, not allowed in the Uni and against the EULA in starter systems.
• advertisements in space:
  put a secure can near a gate or station and name it to advertise something
• increasing cargo space:
  put a cargo container in your hauler to increase cargo capacity
• in-space supply depot:
  put ammo and other supplies in a secure container somewhere in deep space, although a Mobile Depot may be a better choice since Rubicon 1.1
• de-cloaking:
  anchor containers in tactically important locations such as near gates in order to de-cloak ships that come as close as 2000m

Sources and References

This page is based on EVE-WIKI: Cargo Containers, EVElopedia: Secure Containers, Grismar: Secure Container, Grismar: Cargo Containers, Grismar: Jettison Container and EVEinfo: Giant Secure Containers. It covers the status quo as of Rubicon 1.3 (March 2014).

Container Types

Cargo containers can be stored in stations and ships, jettisoned into space, anchored in space and eventually scooped up again. They can be distinguished into 3 types:

Container Type

Category	password protection	audit log	hitpoints
Standard Container	no	no	10 HP
Secure Container	yes	no	5k - 50k HP
Audit Log Secure Container	yes	yes	100k - 10M HP

The password protection uses two passwords, one to access the container at all and a second one that is required to reconfigure it. Password protection also depends on your personal and corporation security settings.

Launch for self

In this case anyone who knows the password can access the container but only you can unanchor it. When you launch the container you must be at least 5.000m away from the nearest anchored object, such as an asteroid, a space station, another container (including your own) or even a ship wreck. This also applies to the methods explained below. Launch for corp

Launch for Corp

When a secure container is launched for a corporation, only members of the corporation which have the Equipment Management role will be able to anchor and unanchor it. This can be useful in large corporations as you will want to keep control over where vital containers are located.

Size

Containers come in different sizes, some of which will only fit in stations. Some are slightly bigger on the inside than on the outside and thus can be used to increase cargo space on a ship. Stacking containers is not possible.

Cargo Container Sizes

Size	outer Volume	inner Volume
Small Container	100 m3	120 m3
Medium Container	325 m3	390 m3
Large Container	650 m3	780 m3
Huge Container	1 500 m3	1 950 m3
Giant Container	3 000 m3	3 900 m3	fits in some T1 industrials
Jettison Container (jetcan)	27 500 m3	27 500 m3	created when using "Jettison"
Freight Container	120 000 m3	120 000 m3	fits in a Freighter
Station Container	1 000 000 m3	1 000 000 m3	does not fit in any ship
Station Vault	10 000 000 m3	10 000 000 m3	does not fit in any ship
Station Warehouse	100 000 000 m3	100 000 000 m3	does not fit in any ship

Price and Seeding

Secure Container Prices

	Volume	Capacity	Price
Small Secure Container	100 m3	120 m3	5 000 ISK
Medium Secure Container	325 m3	390 m3	14 500 ISK
Large Secure Container	650 m3	780 m3	31 000 ISK
Huge Secure Container	1500 m3	1950 m3	67 500 ISK
Giant Secure Container	3000 m3	3900 m3	152 750 ISK

Anchoring

A container that is jettisoned from a ship can be scooped up by anybody even if it is password protected. If you have the Anchoring skill and are in a system with a security status of 0.7 or less, you can also "Launch for Self" or "Launch for Corp" instead of "Jettison" and this will anchor the container.Anchoring will take a little time. You also need to set a password after launching it or anybody will be able to access it. The password can only be changed by repackaging the container at a station. Red light/green light.

Related Topics

The Mobile Tractor Unit (MTU) and Mobile Depot are not considered containers, however they share some of the game mechanics and overlap in practical use.

The MTU is similar to an anchored container with a tractor beam attached. It will tractor in everything inside its ??? km radius. It has much less hitpoints than a container though and can thus easily be destroyed.

The Mobile Depot is like a secure anchored container with a refitting service and a reinforcement timer. So it is very difficult to destroy and superior in most cases to using a secure container as a supply depot in deep space.