EVE New Citizens Q&A

That's actually really helpful, good job dude.

Despite all these big and little UI changes, you'd think that they'd have fix the overview state filter by now.

This is why you can't have an overview of only war targets.


For what it is worth:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=3828664#post3828664

Key thing is that you are spamming WARP at least a couple of seconds prior to ship pop according to the server, so that you beat that Stiletto trying to lock to your pod based on server ticks. What I mean is, if you wait until your pod pops and then hit ALIGN/WARP you are dead. If however you are spamming WARP when you enter structure, when your ship pops on the servers they will receive your WARP request packet in the next available tick, and start processing it before enemies clients have even seen your pod pop (appear on grid tick).

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Hitting warp aligns your ship to your warp point. As being aligned is required to warp.

Just realized something that would be nice for newbies, THIS - plus a part in tutorial explaining the overview and maybe having a dummy target of each type so the overview could be proof checked.

Your assertion is incorrect. While it certainly doesn't hurt to align before ship death, it doesn't necessarily help the pod to enter warp faster, either, since pods already have perfect align time.

However, I will say that on more than one occasion, I escaped a fight with my ship in structure (when I had assumed I was dead and was making preparations for pod gtfo), exactly by doing what you describe. It occasionally succeeds because the other guy makes some error, like burning out his afterburner or something, which causes him to unexpectedly lose point.

So doing it your way is probably the best practice anyway.

The paradox of my thinking is that on one hand I want to reward people that 'dig a little for info on how to be good at EvE' with content such as this, but not spoon feed every carebear out there with this info by default, because then my ability to shoot them in the face will be too negatively impacted... :)

TLDR;
If your reading this, or my blog, your welcome to this knowledge. If however you are a nerf-hisec carebear who expects to be protected from war targets dropping on his head 'out of the box', without driving his own learning or research, you should be on your own to figure this stuff out? Thus no to defaults.

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Thanks. I think people on the fence should at least give the settings a try, to see what they have been missing (or more accurately, get rid of the info overload they wont miss...)

How do the guides here compare to the one on eve uni. ie which one would the majority recommend? I remember using the eve uni guide back in the day so is it a little out of date?

Cheers!

Well the mandatory Jessica pic makes every post or guide on his blog better without a doubt.

More seriously, if you have any level of interest in this side of the game, it's a wonderful, hilarious and very educative blog.

Actually BJ, give the comments at the bottom of the post a look for PVE insights.

Notwithstanding overlay settings for pve, the local window extraction/resize, icon re-sort and re-color are worth the price of admission of themselves, even for PVE'rs not wanting to get zapped by war deccers, so even if you are too lazy to refactor a provided overlay for PVE as described in the comments, those things alone make said post stand on its own.

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