Warfare & Tactics

I'm about to join FW, but I'd like to get my overview setup first so there are no non-fw related blinkies and reds to confuse me. I've only been able to find really old info. The newest that I saw was this:

http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Overview_Guide

Is that good enough?

One that I saw actually removed blues from showing up at all, and didn't add drones. Aren't there are times and fits where you would want to see your friendlies to hug them, and times and fits you would want to see the evil drones to pew them?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

YAY! TYVM!!!!!!

if you use lost of spy alts etc fleet memebers should go over anything, does not work on random fleets.

ALWAYS have neutrals on your overview unless its a 'specialist tab' like POD SAVER! Always assume a neutral is there to attack you unless intentions have been declared beforehand. And even if they have been declared still assume they are going to attack unless you know them to honour their word.

Drones: Thats why I have 2 pvp tabs. General pvp and basic travel stuf and PVP+drones which is just drones and ships of non friendly players. drones are a PITA on the overview and a lot of the time I'm not interested in actually engaging drones so I ignore them. sometimes however drones are the first priority so I swap tabs to take care of them then swap back to the other once they are gone.

I just noticed "In your militia" is almost last. Is it common to have militia members with shootibly bad standing?



edit: fixed quote

Are you confusing player set standings with npc standings or sec status?

The standing is set when you add contacts in your contacts list.

If you set someone to red - you want them to show up as red even if in militia - awoxers etc etc.

Good point BM.

I didn't think of spy alts. That is one thing my setup doesn't accommodate.

I have never done FW stuff but I do find it handy having a collection of 'GTFO' overview settings available, and always have one set in my far-right overview tab. These show no ships at all, just my chosen class of celestial (e.g. moons).

Often enough your align point (or bravely warp away point) is accessible via mainscreen drop-down menu, but it is usually fast to simply switch to that GTFO overview and select. if you're in your pod you can spam-warp an overview location but not a drop-down location.

These are especially handy when there are hundreds of ships visible in your combat overview.

I also run a variety of overview settngs that show subsets of enemy ships, such as 'hictors/dictors', 'frigs', 'BSs', 'BLOPS' only, 'Freighters/JFs' (ganking work), 'Capitals' etc etc etc. Again they may have little relevance to FW,altho the idea probably will, but just a couple days ago we were a bit trapped by a large enemy fleet. They were serial bubbling us and whittling our numbers down, while we were trying to find some free space so we could bravely warp away. The FC commanded a swith to dictor/hictor-only overview setting and we sanitised the area of bubblers before some of us managed to extricate.

My overview tabs are usually something like this:
Travel - showing all ships, gates, WHs, control towers, bubbles, probes, and that's about it.
PvP 1 - showing all non-blue, non-purple, non-green ships ongrid.
PvP 2 - Showing the subset of enemy ships currently of interest.
PvP 3 - A backup selection, often showing enemy drones or some other subset of interest.
GTFO - Showing no ships at all, just a chosen celestial type.