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CCP karkur
C C P
C C P Alliance
#141 - 2012-05-04 14:42:30 UTC
Heimdallofasgard wrote:
P.S: Does anyone know how to change the colour of the corp/alliance tags that appear after peoples names?
right click on the groups in the overview settings and pick a different color

CCP karkur | Programmer | Team Five 0 | @CCP_karkur
Syri Taneka
NOVA-CAINE
#142 - 2012-05-04 22:48:20 UTC
Jastra wrote:
shortcut keys are underutilised (certainly by me!)


how many times have you clicked on your drones, and clicked right engage target ?

for the majority of people with a 3 button mouse, set a hotkey on mouse3 for "all drones:engage"

save yourselves many, many mouse clicks Big smile - now just click the middle button and the drones go for your first target


I have my drone commands assigned to Ctrl+ 1-5, in order: Engage, Return, Return to bay, Focus/defocus, Passive/Aggressive.

To compensate, I set quit to Alt+q instead of Ctrl-q.
TheSmokingHertog
Julia's Interstellar Trade Emperium
#143 - 2012-05-05 15:43:45 UTC
"if the first order is 1 000 000 i click on modify order, type 1 000 000 then mouse wheel scroll down a bit. Just 0.01"

Did just find this out in MD forums, I assume a lot people missed this.

"Dogma is kind of like quantum physics, observing the dogma state will change it." ~ CCP Prism X

"Schrödinger's Missile. I dig it." ~ Makari Aeron

-= "Brain in a Box on Singularity" - April 2015 =-
TheSmokingHertog
Julia's Interstellar Trade Emperium
#144 - 2012-05-10 22:42:35 UTC
In "Orders Overview" you can use the first letter of the index to search in that collumn... really should have known that before :S

"Dogma is kind of like quantum physics, observing the dogma state will change it." ~ CCP Prism X

"Schrödinger's Missile. I dig it." ~ Makari Aeron

-= "Brain in a Box on Singularity" - April 2015 =-
Vasily Bath
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#145 - 2012-05-10 23:49:11 UTC
If you target CONCORD and press F1 they will fly in formation. Coolest trick I have seen in Eve. Cool
Dezolf
DAX Action Stance
#146 - 2012-05-21 19:46:19 UTC  |  Edited by: Dezolf
TheSmokingHertog wrote:
"if the first order is 1 000 000 i click on modify order, type 1 000 000 then mouse wheel scroll down a bit. Just 0.01"

Did just find this out in MD forums, I assume a lot people missed this.


In addition to this..
Scrolling the wheel in any number-place will make it go up or down. If you do a "hard scroll" it will go down by a large amount, while a "soft scroll" gives you more control.

If you want to search for every T2 item on the market, open your Market->Search, and type " ii" (excluding quotationmarks). Please note that some tags and a bit of random other things will also appear.

You can filter items (in the market overview) by skills, cpu/pwg and untrained skills (useful if you don't feel like scrolling over the skills you already have trained). You can also turn off auto-refresh (this is useful when modifying a large amount of orders in rapid succession)

On another note,
You can set up audio alerts w.r.t your shield/armor/hull percentage. You can also turn them off, without turning any other sound off. (Three/four bar-thingie, audio alerts)

Right-clicking modules will allow you to toggle Auto-Repeat (and -Reload, where applicaple) on and off.

If you're using multiple clients, this link might help! (using symlinks will also create seperate settings folders in your default "C:\ProgramData\CCP\EVE" and C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\CCP\EVE, with names related to the name of the symlink-folders)

In general, EVElopedia is a GREAT source of information. If it lacks some information, you can then google it (oh, and feel free to create/modify pages if they're inaccurate, although YARR might get angry with you if you abuse this privilige (sp))

"Pinning" something does not mean it is pinned to it's location, it merely becomes transparent.

You can fleet yourself, by right-clicking your own name and hitting "form fleet with..." - however, you will not get bonuses when you're alone. (No need to have an alt online)

There are a BUNCH of handy short-cuts that (nearly) nobody knows about. (but this has already been mentioned)
One such is CTRL+W (that we all know and love from our browsers) to close the currently active window. Or CTRL+PgDn and CTRL+PgUp to switch between tabs, CTRL+Tab to switch between windows (you'll also find the very useful "hide/show all windows"), SHIFT+Tab to "fold" all windows, and the list goes on.

I, myself, prefer "E" for "drones engage" and "R" for "return to dronebay". I also prefer "Z" for "need shields" and "X" for "in position".

...And that's about all I could think about.
BombDust
Doomheim
#147 - 2012-05-21 20:41:39 UTC
Goons make great targets when practise bomb runs.
TheSmokingHertog
Julia's Interstellar Trade Emperium
#148 - 2012-05-21 20:57:33 UTC
Dezolf wrote:
TheSmokingHertog wrote:
"if the first order is 1 000 000 i click on modify order, type 1 000 000 then mouse wheel scroll down a bit. Just 0.01"

Did just find this out in MD forums, I assume a lot people missed this.


Lots of great stuff...

And

Quote:

In addition to this..
Scrolling the wheel in any number-place will make it go up or down. If you do a "hard scroll" it will go down by a large amount, while a "soft scroll" gives you more control.




Only the number of days specified in a Courier Contract does not behave this way, you have to hard set the number of days that you grant for the contract to finish.

"Dogma is kind of like quantum physics, observing the dogma state will change it." ~ CCP Prism X

"Schrödinger's Missile. I dig it." ~ Makari Aeron

-= "Brain in a Box on Singularity" - April 2015 =-
Karn Dulake
Doomheim
#149 - 2012-05-21 21:03:01 UTC
When in a small gang always sit on a commode when you fly this way you wont get shouted as when you are in the middle of a fleet fight and you have a turtle head hanging and you have to get to the toilet
I dont normally troll, but when i do i do it on General Discussion.
TheSmokingHertog
Julia's Interstellar Trade Emperium
#150 - 2012-05-22 18:33:54 UTC  |  Edited by: TheSmokingHertog
- Changed with Inferno. -

"Dogma is kind of like quantum physics, observing the dogma state will change it." ~ CCP Prism X

"Schrödinger's Missile. I dig it." ~ Makari Aeron

-= "Brain in a Box on Singularity" - April 2015 =-
Jo Blot
ALT-F4 Corp
#151 - 2012-05-22 18:57:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Jo Blot
TheSmokingHertog wrote:
For the moment:

When opening your cargo bay separately (SHIFT CLICK) and opening a new inventory window (ALT C) you will have your cargo hold open continually.


That's only on Tuesdays and Wednesdays UTC. On Mondays, Thursdays, and alternate Fridays you have to reverse the key-sequence: CLICK SHIFT to have all your cargo reprocessed, and C ALT to open the cargo folder. On every second Friday you have to double-click in space to bring up the Invetory Pre-Access context menu, then press SHIFT CLICK ALT C while moving the mouse or pointing device around a circular axis perpendicular to the screen to open the cargo folder. The folder will remain closed.

At the weekends cargo folders can only be opened with a unique "mystery combination", with prizes from the NeX store on offer each weekend to the first pilot's to correctly figure out the new way of opening folders.
P00P
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#152 - 2012-05-23 02:32:50 UTC
Zimmy Zeta wrote:
if you sell lots of stuff on the market, use the last two digits of your sell order's price to create a personal signature for you, so you can easily discern your orders from those of your competitors in the market window.

If you are can mining, change the name of the can to "Giant Secure Container". This cheap trick doesn't work always, but often enough Big smile



That worked for me quite a bit, but someone will figure it out eventually.
Ayame Tao
#153 - 2012-05-29 15:27:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Ayame Tao
Vasily Bath wrote:
If you target CONCORD and press F1 they will fly in formation. Coolest trick I have seen in Eve. Cool


That just turns my afterburner on and off :(


Oh wait... I see what you did there ;)


Tip - If you target Vasily Bath in a 1400 fit tornado and press F1, he drops modules Pirate



P00P wrote:
[quote=Zimmy Zeta]if you sell lots of stuff on the market, use the last two digits of your sell order's price to create a personal signature for you, so you can easily discern your orders from those of your competitors in the market window.


Or... go into Market > Settings, tick the box that says "mark my orders"
Cebraio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#154 - 2012-05-29 15:52:17 UTC
Ajita al Tchar wrote:

* You can burn out your capacitor by initiating and cancelling warp multiple times to give you greater control over bookmark placement in space.


You can hit CTRL+SPACE to cancel warp (faster than clicking and thus works sometimes better, when you are almost warping already).
Trev Dekstellar
Sarum Family Reclamation Party
#155 - 2012-06-26 23:51:49 UTC
A little necro to have some useful stuff on page 1

Ajita al Tchar wrote:

* Speaking of the overview, you can open overview settings even while docked if you type "/open_overview_settings" in chat. You can do lots of things like this with the right text command, actually, but I find the overview one to be the most useful. Remember, a badly setup overview can mean you go boom before you know it. You can add up to 5 tabs to your overview to toggle between filters quickly.
Brilliant!

Xercodo wrote:
Group chats with local, corp, and alliance to make them "uncloseable". Grouping them with these chats makes them only minimizable.
This is what I'm doing as well. I think CCP should do more work on how chat channels are handled to allow us to manage chat channels freely, without having to use this trick.

Another chat channel tip: To condense char list in channels with a lot of players right click channel tab and choose 'show compact member list' (showing player icons in member list is useless anyway).

In General Options you can select to ' merge items and ships into station panel'
Kimmi Chan
Tastes Like Purple
#156 - 2012-06-27 00:39:53 UTC
CCP karkur wrote:
can I play? P
here are a few things I can think of which I'm not sure everyone knows of:

  • you can open many info windows (either by changing setting in ESC window or holding shift down while you click "show info")


This is a new one for me and I like it. +1

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Shedling
Doomheim
#157 - 2012-08-05 02:55:23 UTC
If you have local as a separate window, save space and see more players by right clicking the tab and selecting "Show compact member list".

This will remove their avatars and display people in local as a text-only list.