EVE New Citizens Q&A

It means you can have two things targeted at the same time, not that you can target two things in one move.

As a tip, use the hotkey to target with (I believe the default is "Ctrl" but I could be wrong). Hold down the key and then click on whatever you want to target, either in space or in your overview. This will let you target multiple things faster.

EDIT: List of hotkeys https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Keyboard_Controls

There is an autotargetting module. I don't know exactly how it works nor do I know anyone that has ever even tried it but it is a high slot item that increases the number of targets that you can lock without having to train skills if for some reason you are trying to avoid that. Again I'm not recommending you use it I'm just saying that it exsists.

If you Ctrl + left click on targets in your overview you can target multiple things very quickly it won't be exactly at the same time but it will be a fraction of a second apart. Also if you want to target more things at once up to the limit of your ship the targeting skill "Target Management" is a 1X training multiplier which means it is the fastest training skill level in game.

I've given some advice here since I am not exactly sure what you are trying to do maybe if you give a specific description of what you would like to do we might be able to better tell you how to do it.

Also questions like this I take as evidence that you don't have any friends in game that you can go to and ask questions as you go. For this reason I strongly recommend that you make some friends in game. Either join a new player friendly corp or join some public chat channels maybe even the public chat channels for various corps trying to recruit new players. How ever you do it get some friends that can answer the random question here and there that you can have some back and forth with and not have to come to the forums and wait for an answer.

Also don't be afraid to talk in local and ask for help there. Some players might smart off to you but more often you'll find helpful people. Eve is known for it's helpful player base.

You could lock 4 if you had the skills to do so and the ship allows .

i can currently lock up to 9 if my ship can also lock as many,
so thats "Target Management V " and "Advanced Target Management III "

I'll take the Amarr tech 1 logi frig the Inquisitor as an example. I am not sure of how many targets that you can hold with no skills but I think it's 2 however it might be only 1 but for the sake of this example I'll say 2

So the Inquisitor if you look at "show info" then "Attributes" tab you'll see that it has Maximum Locked targets of 7. So if you have no targeting skills and you fly that ship you can target 2 things. If you train target management to 1 you can lock 2 things in that ship. Train it to 2 and you can lock 4 things etc etc... Now if you train Target Management to 5 and Advanced Target Management to 5 Meaning that in theory you have the skills to lock 12 targets and you fly the Inquisitor you will still only be able to target 7 targets since that is the limit for that ship.

With no skill each pilots only gets 2 targets.

Some ships can lock 10-12 targets.

CTRL left-click on overview
CTRL left-click on overview
...
Repeat until you hit the maximum.

You don't even have to wait for any lock to complete.


Example:

Vargur Marauder. Maximum Locked Targets: 10.

With an Auto Targeting System II fitted and online (doesn't have to be active though), a Marauder's targeting electronics are capable of locking 13 targets.

Unfortunately a pilot's brain can only manage at most 12.

Bastion mode gives +3 targets. an auto-targeter is more useful on a ship like a Machariel. Wherea signal amp gives +lock range +scan res + locked targets and fits nicely on ravens.

personally I have advanced target management V as well. the main intention was for flying logistics and/or triage. but in general it seems a bit useful. lv 3 or 4 on advanced is probably all you need for most uses, going beyond that is pretty specialized. Target management is only rank one, I got by for a long time only having it at a somewhat low level, it isn't a huge priority if you have other skills to train, but it is rather nice having it at a high level eventually.

You just left click on it. You can do that either on the overview or on the target it's self where they are lined up on the upper right hand part of your screen (default location). Also you can drag those targets around in the list to rearrange them.

You can also set shortcuts keys for next / previous. I use Z and X.