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NiGhTTraX
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#1 - 2012-06-18 01:38:40 UTC  |  Edited by: NiGhTTraX
TL;DR: Give us the ability to drag and drop tabs from the overview to separate overivew windows, just like you can with chat channels.

I like to keep my overview clean and organized, and as such, I have a separate tab for ships in fleet, one for ships not in fleet, one for celestials and gates etc. I make full use of the 5 available tabs in the overview window. But what I would really like, is the possibility of having more than one overview window. For instance, in fleet flights, I'd like to have a window that has the ships not in fleet and one with the celestials so I don't have to miss precious information when switching from one tab to another to prepare my warp out. Another usage scenario would be for miners having an asteroid overview and a ship overview, so they can see when gankers warp to them, without having to scroll through a huge list of Veldspar to notice that one Catalyst.

As an implementation, I think the mechanics behind chat tabs should do just fine. Make the tabs in the overview drag droppable into separate windows. You could put a limit of 2 windows, as I can't see the use for more than 2, but I'll let that for others to discuss. Plus, you'd probably want to limit them so you don't hog the server with too much requests.

You can drag out anything else that has tabs, why not the overview as well? Would make observing stuff in fleet flights more interesting.

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Marwolaeth Arglwydd
Alternate Powers
#2 - 2012-06-18 03:26:44 UTC
This needs to be a thing. But one would have to be able to be made to be the primary so the brackets and the scanner would know which to follow.
Mira Lynne
State War Academy
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-06-18 05:16:33 UTC
+1.
In general, the overview needs some love.

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NiGhTTraX
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#4 - 2012-06-18 18:05:29 UTC
Marwolaeth Arglwydd wrote:
This needs to be a thing. But one would have to be able to be made to be the primary so the brackets and the scanner would know which to follow.


Yeah I guess the main overview window could be primary and the tabs that you drag out of it would not affect the brackets and dscan. You could make the secondary windows look different so that you always know which is your primary.

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WNxWolfy
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2012-06-18 22:15:55 UTC
+1, Yes please.
NiGhTTraX
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#6 - 2012-06-19 12:20:49 UTC
bump

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Idris Mandela
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2012-06-19 12:21:49 UTC
+1
NiGhTTraX
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#8 - 2012-06-19 22:22:37 UTC
bump again

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NiGhTTraX
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#9 - 2012-06-20 15:43:54 UTC
on the first page you go

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Ruareve
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#10 - 2012-06-20 15:54:01 UTC
+1

more options are good

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space gun
Taurus Quantum Technologies
Taurus Quantum Dynamics
#11 - 2012-06-20 22:36:57 UTC
+10

thise is a realy nice idea i love to see in game
NiGhTTraX
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#12 - 2012-06-22 01:11:09 UTC
bumpy

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Foghail
Sons of Chaos and Anarchy
#13 - 2012-06-22 05:06:39 UTC
+1
Jack Paladin
State War Academy
Caldari State
#14 - 2012-06-22 10:28:33 UTC
I support this

+1
NiGhTTraX
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#15 - 2012-06-22 23:03:41 UTC
up you go

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Salena Ashera
#16 - 2012-06-23 04:47:44 UTC
Bamp

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Mira Lynne
State War Academy
Caldari State
#17 - 2012-06-23 05:13:50 UTC
Bumpitty bump bump.
As a Logi pilot, this would make my life SIGNIFICANTLY easier.
One overview to watch Friendlies, one to watch Hostiles.
Easy Targeting of Friendlies combined with knowing who is targeting and when im at risk of being tackled.

This can also be applied to other aspects of the game:
Missioning (One overview for loot, one for NPCs)
Mining (One overview for Ore, one for Combat ships that may Gank you)
Incursions (Logi, as above, DPS, Monitor Targets and Competing Fleets?)

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NiGhTTraX
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#18 - 2012-06-23 21:24:54 UTC
Mira Lynne wrote:

As a Logi pilot, this would make my life SIGNIFICANTLY easier.
One overview to watch Friendlies, one to watch Hostiles.
Easy Targeting of Friendlies combined with knowing who is targeting and when im at risk of being tackled.
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this

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NiGhTTraX
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#19 - 2012-07-01 00:04:45 UTC
bump

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Jett0
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#20 - 2012-07-01 06:02:09 UTC
Great idea!

+1

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