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May I suggest an orange-ish bubble? I think that would look cool and wouldn't interfere with other color for other bubble effect.

And yes I have seen the new sphere targeting sphere thing, I just meant it is hard to test with 1 frame per second and the fighter tend to have a mind on their own instead of obeying your command.

Though I managed to "fire" this mother-ship neutralizing beam thing once. What I couldn't figure out was how to explain to the new long range fighter-bombers a squad of Amethysts) to drop the bombs in the sphere.

I had an arch ready to "fire" the bombs but they didn't do anything but mocking me instead.

Actually, it does account for all possible locations in 3D space. It is a direct, precise and constant indication of distance from you. Keep your eye on where the trace curve intersects your ship's plane. That tells you the distance from you to the target no matter where the target is in space, whether below you, above, to the side, or in between. As soon as that intersection point crosses your range indicator (whether it be locking, optimal or falloff range) you know the ship is in range. No eyeballing required.

I think I would like to test that out, yeah. But just for targeting range, not optimal or falloff.

Interesting... because I can't see that now with the current setup. I have to rotate the camera around to get the proper viewing angle - for example, if my ship and the target ship are in-line in the view, there's zero information about how far away the target is outside of the overview. With the new tactical overlay, I can keep my isometric view and be able to easily see distance of all targets without having to move the camera. I find it much easier and faster to change the focus of my eyeballs to the side by an inch or two than it is to rotate the camera around.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is available as a beta for several weeks, like scanning/map/camera changes were available as a beta.

CCP Turtlepower, I have a suggestion for the team: First, make the 0 m distance indicator start at the edge of your ship's signature radius, or whatever it is that the game uses to calculate distances between objects. For example, if I approach a Ninazu with a capsule, I can end up 80 meters away according to the game, but visually it's about 4000 meters center-to-center. So for larger ships like FAXes (and especially Citadels) there's a significant divergence between indicated distance per the tactical overlay and actual distance per the overview and module activation. Second, draw the curved distance line thingy not from the center of the object, like now, but instead from the edge of the ship's signature radius (or whatever the game uses - it's not exactly the sig radius since increasing it by turning on an MWD doesn't decrease distance according to the overview.)

To illustrate, take control of an XL Citadel. Where the 150 km circle is right now should instead be the 0 km line, with 5, 10, 20, 30, 50, etc. km lines out from there. Currently I can target lock something that's way outside the indicated lock distance.

(Oh, and what exactly determines whether something gets a curved line or not? I thought it was whether or not the thing was on the overview, but I have instances of things on the overview not getting a curved line.)

Could you add drone range as well ?

A few months ago I recommended that an option to adjust the transparency of the tactical overlay be added to the game settings.
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=5142173

Since you're looking for feedback on the recent tactical overlay changes, I felt it appropriate to bring this idea to your attention again.

Thank you for your time.

I've been getting a bug where the overlay will display when I didn't want it to after undocking. I have to click the overlay button twice to get it to go away.

It's much improved compared to the last one. As a suggestion perhaps think about coloring the 50/100/150 lines a different color to make them stand out a bit more.

And I like Jonny's suggestion above to add a transparency slider.

Good Overlay but not all ships get that curved line.

Bomb launcher is not working properly with the new tactical overlay.

1. Range is shown as 15km, which is the bomb explosion area of effect, not the distance it travels.
2. Bomb bubble showing the explosion area of effect *after* the distance it travels is still missing.