Don’t leave Assets in Structures if you cannot afford to pay reclaim fees, should assets end up in Asset Safety.
If you’re planning on taking a break from EVE move everything to an NPC station close by or in lowsec where assets may be more easily sold.
Common causes for Assets ending in Assets Safety:
Destruction of the Structure where assets are located.
Structure enter Low Power mode - possibly leads to 1.
Structure is taken down by Owner.
You manually put them in Asset Safety to safely move your assets, within 2 days of doing so assets may be moved to station within same system and reclaimed at 0.5% fee.
Tbh this whole topic is like a super rich Ferrari collector complaining that he gives up his car-galeria in Monaco and to have all his million dollar assets safely stored and conserved without him moving a finger someone really dares to ask for a payment…
The OP is obviously rich enough to pay whatver asset safety fees CCP demands for “remote magic securing” all his stuff, the alternative is to save money and move these things manually ouf ot nullsec, find secure docking stations or logging them out on the chars who are supposed to fly these ships anyway. They even have large enough hangar bays to store a lot of other stuff in them that he might want to keep for a later rejoin.
Unlike medical clone fees these asset safety fees make sense.
If asset safety were without meaningful cost people would abuse it much more to teleport items for free to safety of a PS station from anywhere in NS space.
People already do so often while the cost is only 15%, but would abuse this feature even more if asset safety cost were less.
Asset safety cannot get cheaper than this without undermining the gameplay of hauling. People would simply abuse it for easy logistics.
Again, if you wish to safely store your ships, even supers and titans, you should park them in a Keepstar in a system with a station within the same system so you can asset safety for only 0.5% cost.
I’ll be taking a short break later in the year.
Before leaving, I’ll be packing up all the stuff in my C5 bearhole.
Capitals will be full of battleships.
!PANIC! freighter full of stuff.
Characters sitting in useful evac ships should the wormhole get evicted while I’m away (webber, probers, rolling Praxii etc).
I’ll wear the cost of new rigs for a bunch of ships that will have to be repackaged.
Prior to going afk, I’ll shift as much PI materials and various other bits to Jita.
I have the luxury of being able to plan for this short break and some corpmates i share the bearhole with to keep an eye on it while I’m gone.
I feel the 15% is what ever but having that percentage go down over time would make sense. 15% going down to say 3-5% incrimentally over a year. If you attempt to abuse the system it costs you if you take a break for a good while welcome back you can reclaim your stuff fir 3-5% of value. It prevents outright abuse of the system without abusing players.
…you bring your stuff to an NPC station
…firesale most of the things you won’t need for a new start later
…repackage/compress/refine your stuff and put it into freighters, which you can log off
…donate stuff to your corp
…give your stuff to some friend to sit it for you while you are absent
And last but not least: Stop caring so much for assets in a game you are about to leave so completely, that you won’t even be able to log in and evac your stuff on an discord-alert-ping that says “Station is under attack, get your stuff out!!!” (which still leaves you a multiple day window to evac/log off).
Asset Safety is completely and ultimately unnessessary in this game. The people living in WH space for years prove that every day, by running EVAC concepts and asset discipline and that is a 100% enough, even for larger corps and alliances of hundreds over hundreds of members and stations that have thousands of ships stored. There should not be a magic asset teleporter in the game, it’s the responsibility of the player to make sure not to own anything in places he cannot either defend or evacuate in time.
