EVE General Discussion

"CTRL click" a selected item in an Inventory field to unselect it.

Some invaluable stuff there. I'll try to add a few (also for ease of player reference you might sort them a bit more by market, combat UI, inventory management .. or at least roughly so)

Information Windows
- be sure to click on extra tabs in almost all primary pop up windows as there is lot of information on secondary tabs , and in turn many of those tabs include buttons at the bottom that allow access to yet more information

- there is a "compare items" button at the bottom of the last of 5 tabs ("variations" tab )of the "show info" window, so that you can actually see the different attributes of the variations listed without clicking on each one, and in turn switching tabs to the "attributes" and "fitting" tabs of each meta version and trying to remember them

- the compare items button at the bottom of that last tab in the pop up info windows allows you to choose information to display in the created table such as metal level, cpu and power grid usage, and utility factors of chosen items like speed boost for a microwarp drive variation, damage and rang variations for weapons . It shows little useful information if you do not select attributes to compare.

- Items of different item-groups can be "compared" if you do not close the "show info" window before you select a different item to "show info" on. Accessing the variations and attributes of the last item type you compared will remain in the "compare item" table this way. That will allow you to to compare damage and cpu use of a medium laser turret to a medium hybrid turret or the power and cpu use of a micro-warp drive to a after burner (or an afterburner to a turret - which isn't what you usually want, and can avoid if you closed your after turret r "show info window" before clicking on "show info" for the after burner.

- almost all tables can be sorted from High to low by clicking on the column name in the header (with the market you can sort by number of jumps, the price high to low or low to high, station name and even duration. It only takes seconds to toggle between numbers of jumps and high to low price . This sorting can be the cause of very costly mistakes on what you think are trivial purchases when you inadvertently have prices sorted high to low and sneaky players have listed dozens of the item with an extra three 000s filling up a screen with cargoholds selling for 550 million to 850 million MILLION not 100s of thousand

- almost all windows such as the "show info" and the market details windows have little forward and back buttons at the top right that allow you to see the information of the previous item you pulled up. If you were shopping for a turret in a far flung region, and then looked at the ammo market details, you could see the station that had ammo available then use the back table to verify that the same station had turrets for sale so that you could buy both items as the same station and avoid docking and undocking. Using forward and back keeps you from searching for the last item on the market navigation sub window to the left.

- the market details window showing products for sale has a market history tab - do not trust the high and low sales or average sale price to always reflect the actual highest and lowest prices, as a undisclosed algorithm throws out outlying high and low sale prices in what still feels like an erratic way after years of trading.

Risk management in trading

- the market details pane showing items available for sale has the price history tab, which in turn can be toggled between chart and table form with a bottom button and give you a longer history of transactions using the pull down on the form window to select nuber of months options. Be sure table is sorted with most recent days on top. Consulting this information can give you some clue if you're buying in a manipulated market and should jump to another region to get a fair price.

- you can make commas appear in the purchase and sell place order pop-up window by making that window "lose focus" by either tabbing to another window or clicking on another or on the hangar.

- You can send isk to any character, including your own alt characters when they are off-line, by right clicking on their name and finding the "give isk" tab on the tiered menu that pops up.

- An alt on a 2nd and 3rd slot on your account needs no training at all to hold isk for your main characters that you sent them while logged into another character You can also contract items to them but you will not be able to create a contract to an alt if that account is in a trial period.

- Your alt can create a one person corporation with only minutes of training "corporations management" . This allows the alt to futher stash isk in corrporate wallets to limit their losses with miss clicks while purchasing items for your main or traidng.

Inventory windows

- you can open mutiple inventory windows at once such more than one ships storage bays, station item hangar, corporate hangar divisions, ship hangar, drone hangar for specific ships by dragging the hangar name on the index off to the side. (as in other tip in list you can move items without opening two windows by dragging to the name of the other hangar or ship.)

Standings

- right clicking on a faction, corporation, or agent name in your player standing's pane (accessed through navigation bar in your character sheet) allows you to select "show transactions" from the pop up window right clicking gives you. You can see the rep gains from each of your last missions completed. (it only keeps them for so long .. 6 months? .. so they could be empty with no recent activity)

- overview settings can be changed in 100s of ways beyond a full explanation in the this thread - but know that there are thousands of such tips that effect important UI information available. EVEN a lowly transportation alt can see trouble coming or better escape a % of ganks with changes to overview settings as not all the choices you make are related to PVP or PVE and the default client options only have a percentage of important options worked in

-- you can import and export overview settings files (option at bottom of drop down menu you get from right clicking on the tiny parrel bar logo you can use to find setting choices in so many types of game windows). You can get overview files from other experienced players/corporations that you've downloaded from external sites (find a reputable one of course consulting overview threads and new plilot learning corp sites

- importing other peoples overview -filter- settings does not erase your existing custom created -filters- settings (consult detailed threads for details) . You can add options with the import without fearing you'll be forced into the unknown until you delete your previous filter options that will be in the list among those you imported.

- Overview Settings/Appearance (tab two): Overview settings choices are not limited to filters of "type" of item shown. The color coding system based upon what color and what flash status you will see in overview rely on dragging and dropping in the ordered list . You don't want a corp mate to appear orange to you by dragging the criminal or pirate status above the item that you've used to set fleetmates to purple, corpmates to blue etc ...see third party site for details

- Pilots shown in the local list will have color squares in their name box with changes you make to the appearancs tab. The local list can thus quickly show you that there are flagged criminals in the system you jumped into before you warp in on them and see them begin to target you in overview.

That's not quite right. There is a minimum velocity threshold before it enters the equation. If the ship is moving below that threshold or is stationary like a structure, only the explosion radius and signature radius matter.

TL;DR
You can bloom the signature radius to better hit a fast object.
Webbing down a small object already below explosion velocity will not increase the damage it takes from a missile with a big explosion.

Someone suggested in help today to fit a cargo scanner to be used before starting your hacking attempt.

Any people experience with that?

Yes, I have experience with that and it does work. All you have to do is carry around the scanner and scan things before you even start hacking them. This way you can see if there is a blueprint or something else worth while in there before you open it. Or you can discover it is a waste of your time and move on.

When the missile hits the target, it explodes. The explosion then travels outward from the impact point as the target tries to outrun the blast.

If the target's velocity is lower than the explosion velocity it takes full damage. If the target is moving faster than the shrapnel from the exploding missile, it only takes partial damage. Unless it's a really small explosion and a really big target, in which case it takes full damage anyway.

A friend in game asked me how I could get fast replies on ore prices when buying them from him.
Here a link to a nice table with all ores in it that can be used to get a general price indication for such prices. Change the index to find some nice other listings too;

All Ores
The Minerals
Biggest dayly movers

anyone have some more?

There is actually a Capital Navigation window where all your available beacons are shown together with their distance. By default it does not have a shortcut.

To set it:
ESC -> Shortcuts -> "Window" tab -> "Open Capital Ship Navigation"