For legacy reasons. You have to use the Freight Containers in the freighters, not Standard Containers or Secure Containers.

I guess it avoids incentivizing players to go through the pain of filling hundreds of small magical ‘30% bigger on the inside than on the outside’ containers as optimal gameplay to carry larger volumes, which I think is a healthy choice. Let’s assume freighters are already fully optimized for stori…

So its bad code? I did notice that the same container will go into other ship cargo but just simply not the freighter. eventually im going to test all the containers and report the findings here. TO be clear… the same assembled container should simply fit in any cargohold that has enough size for i…

The container code seems somewhat convoluted. If you put fitted ships or filled containers in courier contracts and then try to recontract them it also breaks. I don’t know all the specifics, but I suspect no-one does.

Speaking of putting things inside things: [image] No Downtime - Again! Dev Blogs Since you ask; it has happened, on test servers, that devs have put suns into their cargo holds. It was fun. It has also happened, on TQ, through misbehaving code that has now be…

[image] The above snip^^ I bought some BPC packs that come in a container. This container can be placed inside my Astero cargohold… working as intended. Now look at the bottom pic and its the SAME container when I try to place it inside my Providence. Same character, nothing different but changed …

Freighters won’t allow containers. It’s also a better idea to move small stuff like containers with blueprints in a fast agile ship instead of a slow freighter.

That wasnt my question broski… you pointed out what I gave evidence for in the pics. but thx. I dont want to talk about work arounds or reasons asked the questions… I just want CCP to know this is a BUG and should be fixed. There is zero reason a 100m3 container can fit in a frigate but not a ship d…

You say bug, they say feature. Let’s call the whole thing off.

Why can Freighter not carry a small container used for things like bpcs?

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Why can Freighter not carry a small container used for things like bpcs?

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