EVE New Citizens Q&A

After just discovering the ability to combine windows in to tabs, I was wondering what other little useful things are out there that most may not be aware of.

Anything you'd like to share?

I was surprised to see some people don't know, that ctrl-click locks targets and ctrl+shift click de-selects targets.

A non-technical tip: It never hurts to be polite to people and treat them with some respect. Being disrespectful, hostile and abusive on the other will get you unwanted attention and cause unnecessary trouble. So show some basic level of civility towards your fellow pilots, even when trouble is exactly what you're looking for. You might change your mind later, but reputation and memory doesn't disappear just because you decide it's not fun anymore.

Cntrl-A to select all, then cntrl-c to copy. Most information that is displayed in a "table" format can be selected, then copied and pasted into whatever tool or program you want. Very handy with dscanner results.

Click any name in local, then press CNTRL-A to select all and highlight all names, then go about your business in system. Whenever someone new comes into system, they will NOT be highlighted, so you can tell at a glance who the new local is.

You can assign a shortcut to open your overview settings, making it possible to change your overview settings while sitting in a station. (ESC to the settings menu, it's under the shortcuts tab).

"C" key to toggle the camera tracking - probably the most-asked question in recent months :)

Just a few off the top of my head!

GG

Thanks for the contributions everyone! And thanks for the link Wafflehead

C to toggle Target Tracking Camera.

EDIT : Oops already been said..

Err.. Cycle your Afterburner once as soon as you start to align when traveling in an industrial, your align time is only as long as 1 afterburner cycle. You should warp as soon as the AB shuts off.

I've been playing EVE for almost 10 years and you know what? I discover a new tip or trick on regular basis. All the time. Sooo... yeah.

My tip... poke around a lot. Drag, left click, right click, re-arrange, check the shortcut keys in the escape menu etc.

If I had a kitten for every time that the game had automatically combined windows into tabs when I did not want it to, I would be able to fill a swimming pool with dead cats.

Seriously, I ***hate*** this 'feature'. The number of times I will have three UI interface windows open (usually Science, Market and either Assets or my current station's cargo) and be swapping between them, only to accidentally merge two of them... ARGH!


As for a useful little tip: To overheat a specific module, shift-click that module. Very useful for when you want to overheat your warp scrambler to catch someone MWDing 12km away from you, but you do not want to risk burning out your webs and/or shield resist modules.

When in doubt, right click.

Small, Not so well documented things in Eve.
Little things I should have known for years.
Hints and Tips V.3

CCP Gargant - A question: What do you wish you had known?

and:
MWD and cloak trick

Bold added.

Notes are forever. When someone does something significant, you can add this to their note, which is stored on server. Say you're hiding in a safespot and there is one other person in system and you keep seeing a taranis pop-up on d-scan. You can put "Flys a taranis" in their note. Years later, when you've forgotten the incident, you can look at their note and remember...

Other things you can put in notes:
- Douchbag that keeps giving newbies bad advice.
- does contract scamming in Jita.
- gave good advice--after popping me.
- I tend to put RL friend names here too.