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Steering your ship
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Kinof Fred
Blue Canary
Watch This
#1 - 2013-02-07 00:50:02 UTC
When there's nothing handy to align to, is double clickind around your ship the easiest way to maneuver?
Lady Naween
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2013-02-07 00:51:31 UTC
yupp. pretty much.
Soft Insanity
The Night Watchmen
Goonswarm Federation
#3 - 2013-02-07 01:01:41 UTC
Keep at range and orbit are also sometimes useful but mostly yes clicking in empty space is used most often.
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#4 - 2013-02-07 01:36:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
There are often celestials you can align to:

* Sun
* Moons
* Planets
* Stargates
* Customs Offices
* Stations
* Asteroid Belts

Otherwise, ya, double-clicking in space to maneuver.
MadMuppet
Critical Mass Inc
#5 - 2013-02-07 01:48:48 UTC  |  Edited by: MadMuppet
I keep a tab available with planets, asteroid belts, and the system star available in case things get nasty. If it is a common system you visit you might want to make a couple safe-spots. Otherwise I keep my 'keep at distance' at 1000km to 'get away from people, and my orbit distance I change on the fly as needed.

I change my orbit distance on the fly because if I am shooting at the 'orbited' guy I keep moving at speed in a straight line after he blows up

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mkint
#6 - 2013-02-07 05:21:53 UTC
It really depends. There are a lot of tools for navigation, though I only really use double click when doing fiddly dangerous maneuvers. Most of the time effective use of custom orbit and keep at range distances are more than adequate, and even advantageous. As far as what to master, orbits and ranges will make you much more effective most of the time but it's also worth knowing the others to get you out of a jam.

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Name Lips
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2013-02-07 05:43:18 UTC
Yeah, it's the hardest thing to get used to if you've played other space games. You don't really FLY your ship in eve. You give it directions.

You "fly" using your overview most of the time. The Overview is the list of objects in space on the right side of your screen. It is one of your most powerful tools. You can configure it in infinite ways to show you exactly what you're interested in.

Click on objects in the overview to select them. (You can also click on them in space, on the screen, but in the heat of battle that is often difficult to impossible. )

A menu shows up at the top right of the screen, with icons representing actions you can take with the selected object.

The "fly my ship" options are:

Approach (your ship will orient towards the object and approach)
Keep at distance (your ship will try to stay the specified distance from the object)
Orbit (your ship will try to move in a circle around the object, while staying at the specified distance)

Most of the time these are good enough. You can get your ship to move where you want it to move by selecting an object and choosing one of these.

But sometimes... you want to move your ship in a direction in which there is no item to target. Like "I want to move 300km straight up on the Z axis away from this gate." That can suddenly turn into a very tricky project.
Inxentas Ultramar
Ultramar Independent Contracting
#8 - 2013-02-07 09:27:47 UTC
Note that you can align to bookmarks that you make yourself. So if you want to "align to 500 Km below the gate" you CAN, but you will need to create the appropriate bookmark first.
Ovv Topik
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2013-02-07 10:33:03 UTC
The quickest way to align if your looking to bug out asap, is to double click any object (like a planet) in your overview.

You will instantly start to align (which is the slowest part in bigger ships), and can then right click > Warp.

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Princess Saskia
Hyperfleet Industries
#10 - 2013-02-07 10:34:49 UTC
Lol, if you are aligning then you will be aligning to a celestial. You do not align to 'nothing' as theres no way to measure that you are aligning towards :D

/P

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Eliniale
Co-operative Resource Extraction
#11 - 2013-02-07 11:49:42 UTC
Princess Saskia wrote:
Lol, if you are aligning then you will be aligning to a celestial. You do not align to 'nothing' as theres no way to measure that you are aligning towards :D

/P


If you have very good spatial awareness, and are very familiar with the exact location of your bookmarks, you could potentially align to them. (There's two i can do that with correctly 90% of the time, but i'm very intimatly familiar with them).

Although I'm nit saying this is a very practical skill to have :)

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Name Lips
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#12 - 2013-02-07 14:48:51 UTC
Princess Saskia wrote:
Lol, if you are aligning then you will be aligning to a celestial. You do not align to 'nothing' as theres no way to measure that you are aligning towards :D

/P

Well, not quite, in the real universe you can align yourself perpendicular to observed objects, or to other specific angles, fairly easily. It's not just "toward" things. You can also use the "fixed" stars as navigation points (since from our point of view they move so slowly that they might as well be unmoving for purposes of in-system navigation).

Real life space travel isn't plagued by the problem of "no reference points in space." It's fairly easy to figure out where things are relative to other things -- otherwise things like sending probes to other planets to take high resolution pictures of tiny moons would be impossible. We have to know where the craft will be at a given time, what angle to aim the camera at, and when to take the picture. Never heard ANYBODY at NASA say, "sorry, we're not heading directly towards an distant planet, there's no way to figure out which way the craft is going."

At the very least I'd like to be able to just type in a heading and speed and have my ship follow the direction, even if it's a complicated, manual process to do so.
Davith en Divalone
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#13 - 2013-02-07 16:13:27 UTC
Name Lips wrote:
At the very least I'd like to be able to just type in a heading and speed and have my ship follow the direction, even if it's a complicated, manual process to do so.


It's not complicated. Double-click in the direction you want to go.