100 m^3.
thanks.
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which nieche they would fill ?
Rare Modules and exploration loot.
100 m^3 of exploration loot is easily 500 mil to 1.5 bil.
Freighter services charge by volume for more than by collateral.
Freight services freaking hate assembled containers too. The container also would only be like 30m3 better than just putting it in the ship anyway, there’s no container that’s more than 30% bigger on the inside.
That is only valid for alliance logistics, not for public contracts. Public contracts charge by value and jumps, not by the meaningless volume.
I use small standard containers (100 mÂł size/120 mÂł capacity) to store unused ammo, modules and other things away from cargo where they would only cause clutter and, especially with crystal ammo, would create frustration because unused and used crystals are easily mixed up.
YOu don’t even know what a freight container is.
It has no increase to it’s volume when assembled. It’s strictly for folder-like management.
please don’t comment on mechanics that don’t even exist.
A small freight container, when assembled, is 1000 m^3 in the freighter and also holds exactly 1000 m^3.
It can be scanned as well.
It’s strictly for organization.
Ah sorry mixed it up with secure/standard containers. The point still stands that your freighter pilot will be very angry if you put it into a contract.
No he won’t. Small and Medium Freighter containers are used all the time.
Every JF service I’ve seen will tell you not to use assembled containers.
Name how many you know.
it’s the standard for large alliances importing and exporting things.
one can with a name, instead of 1000 different names and types for each item inside the can.
Push x allows them. Probably for strict alliance deliveries
Assembled Containers or Plastic Wrap in the contract:
Must be mentioned in the contract description.
Use a split contract instead of containers if possible.
Not allowed for freighter contracts.
Containers or plastic wraps can cause delivery delay
Red frog
Containers: Populated containers should be used only when necessary (i.e. because the number of items in the contract exceeds the maximum) and Must be marked by including “container” in the contract description. Double-wrap (making a courier contract that contains a courier contract) must not be used.
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This is called a plastic wrap. It’s what happens when you make a courier contract.
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You already proved you don’t know what a freight container is.
You’re the kind of person that antagonizes all ideas in forums no matter how good or bad they are (as proven in this thread).
You’re going HAM over a tiny freight container suggestion.
The proposed 100 mÂł Tiny Container would improve alliance logistics by eliminating the waste of transporting 950 mÂł of empty space when shipping only 50 mÂł of items inside a 1,000 mÂł Small Freight Container. This optimization would directly increase Jump Freighter (JF) isotope efficiency, enabling significantly higher cargo value per jump while reducing fuel costs.
Right now in the Drone Regions, many newer alliances and corporations frequently half-fill (or less) a 1,000 m³ Small Freight Container with Drone Regions loot—such as Elite Drone AI cores, augmented drones, officer modules from Venal, exploration loot, and salvage. We tend to use freight containers because we handle hauling directly, rather than relying on secondary courier contracts.
More generally, older characters (10+ years in the game) who are deeply invested in EVE tend to structure their contracts using Small, Medium, Large, Huge, and Giant Freight Containers. In practice, these containers function like “folders” on a hard drive, allowing players to organize shipments efficiently. For example, a Medium Freight Container of ammunition can be unpacked after delivery directly into a station container labeled “Ammo.”
Because of this, it is not surprising to see many of the “movers and shakers” of EVE—veteran players with large asset bases who are building new industrial or military footprints in the Drone Regions—zealously using freight containers in their contracts as a standardized logistics structure for the pure sake of organization (the very reason freight containers already exist).
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A plastic wrap is created when a courier contract is issued. It is not the same thing as a freight container, and it serves a completely different purpose in the logistics chain. Freight containers are used as organizational units inside contracts, while plastic wraps are the contract itself. Conflating the two is simply misunderstanding the mechanics. The discussion in this thread is about cargo organization and volume efficiency, not courier mechanics.
***If someone’s only contribution to a proposal thread is to argue against every suggestion regardless of its merits, that isn’t meaningful feedback—it’s just forum contrarianism (which the OP has rightfulyl accused you of, proven by the fact you didn’t even know what a freight container was) .
The purpose of the Features & Ideas forum is to evaluate whether an idea improves gameplay or logistics, not to nitpick semantics or derail the discussion with unrelated mechanics. A 100 mÂł Tiny Container is a small, practical quality-of-life improvement that would benefit alliance logistics without breaking any existing systems. Dismissing it reflexively does nothing to move the discussion forward.