Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hey guys,

Almost a year ago we introduced districts into EVE Online. The were first added to all temperate planets within factional warfare space and more recently to temperate planets in low security systems within the Molden Heath region. Along with all of the districts we added a satellite above each district. These satellites are very special celestial objects. Most celestial objects in space are either on your overview or not. If they are added to your overview profile they show up on the overivew, if not they don't. Simple. These satellites however can be added to your overview profile and will only show up on the overview if there is a pilot on grid with the satellite. You guys can figure out why that is special, in a very useful way.

With Odyssey we are adding the district satellites to the following default overview profiles:
All
Default
PvP
Warp To

This will not change anyones overview that is currently setup. If you wish to add district satellites to your current overview profiles they are called "Satellite" and can be found in the overview settings, under filters, and in the celestial category.

With the release of planetary conquest in DUST and the increased number of orbital bombardments we firmly believe in getting this message out to as many pilots as possible. Wouldn't want pilots sitting in orbit of a district bored while waiting to provide that orbital bombardment support.

Done! :P

If anyone is interested when the Molden Heath satellites are active, I post updated lists 3 times a week (Wed/Fri/Sun) here.

Assuming you are using the "All" overview, will they be on there with planets, moons, etc, or will you have to be within x amount of KM to see them?

Yeah, probably a good idea.

To be fair, they didn't remove tornadoes from the overview. The made them Attack Battlecruisers. Which were not on custom overviews at the time.

Why would you highlight a satellite that a player is currently on grid with? Why don't we just make ships that are on directional scan warpable too? This is a dumb change and makes finding bombers way too easy. For all your talk about how improved the scanning system is and how you are about to release an entire expansion based on exploring, removing the need to scan down a pilot on a district is dumb.

I have my own gripes about the scanning changes....but why would this make a "bomber" more easily found?

If the the bomber is uncloaked on grid with one of these satellites...then that is a dead bomber (as it should be for being bad and uncloaked)
If the bomber is cloaked on grid with one of these satellites....then you don't know it's a bomber....unless you warp there, uncloaked and the bomber bombs you.....
If the bomber is cloaked on grid with one of these satellites.....then you don't know it's a bomber...if you warp there cloaked you don't know that bomber is there and the bomber is equally clueless to your presence.


How is this a bad thing? I don't understand your complaint in this context.

If there is someone on grid with the satellite, and the satellite is on your overview, it will be visible to everyone systemwide.

They only show up on your overview when someone is at them. They are in low sec space only right now. That means if you see one on your overview... PEW PEW PEW!