Winterblink: asset control and consolidation in EVE Online
Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Tips and tricks

Warp Drive Active podcaster Winterblink is a man who's got everything, apparently. And too much of it, scattered throughout his hangars in New Eden. It's a common problem in EVE Online, particularly for players who roam a lot throughout the galaxy. Mission runners, ratters, and adherents of most any trade or livelihood in the game accumulate a lot of random assets, individually of low worth but which can hold substantial value when seen as a whole. Unfortunately, what Winterblink describes in his blog gets even worse when a player uses containers to organize their possessions by category across multiple stations. The contents of those containers cannot be viewed remotely; one has to be docked in that particular station to see what's inside.
Winterblink decided he couldn't handle the clutter anymore and shared the most efficient way he's found to deal with it all, step-by-step. He also had a good idea about having a container that only has the modules for his preferred ship fittings. Slowboating all over New Eden to consolidate his assets worked out for Winterblink. But this writer found that the negligible value of his junk and the time lost consolidating it wouldn't be worth the effort, and opted to ruthlessly destroy a fair amount of it, rather than collect and reprocess or resell the odds and ends. The slash-and-burn approach works for Tech I modules, but once ships and Tech II of anything enter into the picture, Winterblink's way is best. Especially in that he opted to reprocess the materials rather than trying to sell them all on the market.
There's definitely something to be said for not having 80 or more hangars stuffed with random, and often useless, odds and ends. Just don't go nuts and accidentally incinerate any faction or officer modules in your haste to be untethered to any particular location. Follow Winterblink's advice to keep the best and liberate yourself from the worst.
















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crsh said on 10:40PM 7-03-2008
The funny-sad part to this is there has been a "Trash it" contextual menu item for well over 3 years when looking at your assets (listing every item you have in every station), but it's never worked.
I never bothered to do what Winterblink did, making 20-30 jumps to a station to delete a few piece of ammo that's been sitting there forever, multiply by 10 or 20 locations (or more); the clutter is indeed annoying, to say the least.
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James Egan said on 11:42PM 7-03-2008
crsh, the 'trash it' function now works as intended, I used it two weeks ago to get rid of a lot of stuff I had spread out. I've got everything in two stations now, soon to be just one. I couldn't handle making trash pickups at 80-something stations... I lost some isk by getting rid of assets but would have lost more had I spent all those hours in a Bestower singing the Banana Boat song:
http://bussongs.com/songs/the_banana_boat_dayo.php
(Bestower, upper left corner there)
crsh said on 7:03PM 7-04-2008
Good to know the command works now, I admit I haven't tried it lately since I stuck in my mind that didn't do anything; I stand corrected, thanks. :)