User:Christoph Patrouette/Container

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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

A standard cargo container, used for common freight.

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

This medium audit log container is fitted with a password-protected security lock.

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.

Audit Log Secure Containers and Station Containers have a log attached to them

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
GiantSecure 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

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.

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

A massive cargo container, used for inter-regional freight; most commonly used in freighter cargo bays.

Overview

Container Type Expanding Password Logging Anchorable Capacity
Standard Container Tick.png Cross.png Cross.png Cross.png 120 - 780
Secure Container Tick.png Tick.png Cross.png Tick.png 120 - 3900
Audit Log Container Tick.png Tick.png Tick.png Tick.png 120 - 780
Station Container Cross.png Tick.png Tick.png Cross.png 1.000.000 - 100.000.000
Freight Container Cross.png Cross.png Cross.png Cross.png 1.000 - 250.000

Other Container

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.

Mobile Tractor Unit

Mobile Depot

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...

http://www.eve-wiki.net/index.php?title=Cargo_Containers

https://eveinfo.net/wiki/ind~6563.htm

Can secure containers be probed out?

As of Apocrypha, no. Secure containers CANNOT be probed down.