We can’t put containers in the Ship Hangar, nor can assembled ships be placed inside containers, this seems fair enough.
But we could really use a way to shorten the list of ships in the more popular docks. Folders is one way that would allow this, they do not have to actually contain the ships, solely being client side filters would fully suffice for my idea at least.
Just make the window bigger…?
Or give them names like
C:/mainShips/kiters/PvE/jack..
You should renam after undocking tho
I tend to keep my hangar list small and only keep ships that I intend to use in the near future, so this isn’t much of an issue for me.
(Keeping my hangar small makes it easier to fit all my ships in a few capital ships to move to new alliance staging systems, which happened about one a year for the past few years, that’s why.)
If I were to have hoarding tendencies and keep a lot of lesser relevant ships I don’t intend to use but also don’t want to sell in the same station I would probably contract all the spares to an alt, just like I send all my loot to my hauling alt too to keep my hangars clean.
Alts are a good folder structure.
Why not try that?
To suggest an interim solution, I’ve taken to prefixing my ship names with a common unicode character to designate ship type. It’s still a flat hierarchy, but it groups the ships together by purpose. See this post for details.
I like that idea, but seeing the categories I think it wouldn’t help much for me.
My suitcases are on my cap alts, my haulers on my hauling alt. My mining alt has the mining ships which leaves all the combat ships in one hangar, that of Gerard.