Skip to main content

House Keeping

Part of going on vacation is setting up the house. The windows need to be opened and the house aired out. Dust covers need to be taken off of the furniture and then the cabinets and fridge stocked with food and drinks. It's a miniature move in. You unpack all of your bags into the closets and dressers, buy cleaning supplies and laundry detergent and set up a second home.

At our vacation station, I was staring at my items hanger in horror. Ender had jumped all of my stuff down for me. My ships were safely tucked into my hangers and various assets dropped in as well.

It was a complete mess.

I have used containers for so long that I had forgotten how messy a hanger is without them. Station containers, for those who have never used them, are containers that are to large to put into any ship. They are made for station organization. Due to their logs and ability to be locked down they are more for shared corporation hangers. This does not mean that one does not take them into the services they are suited for.

I discovered containers very early in the game. I was mining and I needed giant secure containers to hold my heaping mounds of ore that were making me rich. I was so excited to dive into my first .07 system so that I could anchor a can in a belt. Mmm. How I love those sweet early memories.

I also wound up using them to neaten my hanger. Later I found station containers and later after that things like station warehouses. Some of the access issues seem to have been cleaned up. The three week delay to deleting them is a bit irritating but I'm a home body who enjoys a neat place to live. I have a low sec home and a high sec home. I normally have a can at the major trade hubs that I buy and sell out of to hold the tons and tons of salvage.

Dear CCP, May we have some personal hanger tabs to keep our things organized?

So far CCP has said, “No.”

So many of us make do with containers for personal organization. This is also one reason why the inventory changes with Inferno broke so many souls. The concept of individual ‘boxes’ is deeply ingrained and it is how we organized. For a while CCP took away our ability to easily have and sort these boxes. Then they gave it back. It was a rough summer.

I also like to combine my ship and items tabs into my station service menu. With my containers it creates a nice neat screen. It's an option on the escape menu under general settings. I found it my first day and used it. I have met many people who did not even know such a thing was real. Because I use it, I didn't lose track of my main hanger window when the inventory changes happened during the spring.

Of course, now and then, when doing mass repackaging of items I repackage a container and it spews everything out all over the hanger.

The weirdest thing is that while writing this post and looking at my assets window (which is very neat and compact) I noticed that Sugar had an item in Dodixie (the Gallente trade hub). Sugar has never been to Dodixie. She is Minmatar, went to Derelik and then to Molden Heath. Then she got locked out of high sec and that was that. Yet, when I selected the station and looked I found out that I have a Retriever in Dodixie. Sugar can't fly mining barges. I have no idea where this ship came from or why I have it.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Maybe one day!

 [15:32:10] Trig Vaulter > Sugar Kyle Nice bio - so carebear sweet - oh you have a 50m ISK bounty - so someday more grizzly  [15:32:38 ] Sugar Kyle > /emote raises an eyebrow to Trig  [15:32:40 ] Sugar Kyle > okay :)  [15:32:52 ] Sugar Kyle > maybe one day I will try PvP out When I logged in one of the first things I did was answer a question in Eve Uni Public Help. It was a random question that I knew the answer of. I have 'Sugar' as a keyword so it highlights green and catches my attention. This made me chuckle. Maybe I'll have to go and see what it is like to shoot a ship one day? I could not help but smile. Basi suggested that I put my Titan killmail in my bio and assert my badassery. I figure, naw. It was a roll of the dice that landed me that kill mail. It doesn't define me as a person. Bios are interesting. The idea of a biography is a way to personalize your account. You can learn a lot about a person by what they choose to put in their bio

Memoirs - Part Seven: The Taste of Scandal

Virtual Realities: Memoirs of an internet spaceship politician by Sugar Kyle CSM9, CSMX Viewers get some drama Is there any election that is scandal free? Virtual space politics are not excluded. Sometimes the scandals come from the people ruining. Sometimes they come from outside of that. “I can’t wait to enjoy the drama!” someone had said to me about the election. Those words would haunt me later as I fought not to be caught up and defined by the decisions another person had made. While I played the game and tried to convince people of my worthiness a dark drama was sweeping across the game. The CSM does not dictate game policy. CCP does that. It does not stop many from seeing the members as vocal representatives. It was a public post made by one member of the CSM that started a fire that would take years to go out. Eve Online is an interactive video game with few social rules. It is one of the games charmes. If you can trick another player into making a po

And back again

My very slow wormhole adventure continues almost as slowly as I am terminating my island in Animal Crossing.  My class 3 wormhole was not where I wanted to be. I was looking for a class 1 or 2 wormhole. I dropped my probes and with much less confusion scanned another wormhole. I remembered to dscan and collect my probes as I warped to the wormhole. I even remembered to drop a bookmark, wormholes being such good bookmark locations later. My wormhole told me it was a route into low sec. I tilted my head. How circular do our adventures go. Today might be the day to die and that too is okay. That mantra dances in the back of my head these days. Even if someone mocks me, what does that matter? Fattening someone's killboard is their issue not mine. So I jumped through and found myself in Efa in Khanid, tucked on the edge of high sec and null sec. What an interesting little system.  Several connections to high sec. A connection to null sec. This must be quite the traffic system.    I am f