EVE General Discussion

Things that you never knew existed and then some one told you about that made you playing allot quicker or easier.
(Or things that you knew about and told someone about and they were wrapped about it)

Something that I spotted that someone else didn't know about:
Ctrl + Shift + Click = Unlocks a Target
(they were constantly using the Selected Item Window button for it)

Something that someone else pointed out to me:
Double-Click on a Planet in the S&I Planets tab = Open Planet in Planet View
(1 double click is so much faster than using the right click menu)


Who else has stuff like this?

You can *UNLOCK* targets with a shortcut?

Holy ****.

Realizing you could use + and - on the numpad to adjust your speed was mind blowing for me. (You mean I can actually travel in a dramiel slow enough to *track*?)

Figuring out which decryptor matched up with which invention was pretty painful as well.

I never knew about the control shift click to unlock...but holding Z and clicking toggles lock/unlock target

Delete the lock/unlock shortcuts and set toggle target to ctrl. this way you have it on one key.

hold ctrl for some convenience in overview. new items appear at the bottom, and instead of disappearing when they leave, items go dim and you can still use it for identifying players and ship types. is good advice for rookie cloak scouts, to keep ctrl pressed. prevents "someone jumped in, but i didn't catch their name"

CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+M opens a very useful statistics window where you can check all sorts of info.

Ctrl+w closes active windows, similar to webpages...

works for market, cargo, assets, etc.

alt+C cargo
alt+R market
alt+T assets
alt+F fitting
alt+D Dscan
alt+E places

....

alt+A character sheet
alt+X skill queue

confirmed

alt+i is mail,
alt+S is science and industry, but who checks those

Alt Shift X will toggle special brackets so that you dont need a clusterfuck overview tab just for seeing LCOs

Special brackets also includes moons.

You can set a shortcut for the ore bay too

I'm set up as such:
Alt I - Inventory
Alt G - Station Items
Alt N - Ships hanger
Alt C - Cargo of active ship
Alt O - Ore bay of active ship

You can move modules around to any hotkey position regardless of slot size. It's great having points and webs on the F2 and F3 keys. Also makes travel in a cloaky SOO much easier when you can press F1 for MWD and F2 for cloak in a quick single motion.

In nearly every table you can change the order of the columns, remove them or add non-default ones. You can do things such as sort by meta level, or remove the "order expire time" column from the market.

Speaking of the market you can set it up so that it never shows you low/null orders so you dont accidentally buy anything out there. You can also have it set up to only show skills that you dont have injected so that a bunch of that skill clutter is removed.

You can make a custom URL link by using an email to no one by using the simple text editor to make the link and then dragging and dropping it into the chat you want. Also works using the bio editor and MOTD editor.

Ctrl Tab works like an in-game version of Windows' Alt Tab

Holding shift when dragging a window will also drag other windows that are anchored to it.

QWE and ASD are shortcuts for Approach, Orbit, keep at range, Align, warp, and dock/jump. They can be used with a single press to be used on the currect active overview item or by being held down and clicking something in the overview or in space much like Ctrl clicking locks things.

You can easily set new defaults ranges using the radial menu on your own ship. You can also bookmark your current location without having to open people and places this way too.

You can right click your capacitor for your ship's menu without having to actually right click your ship, handy when zoomed way out or when there's a clusterfuck of objects on screen.

Holding Alt and pressing 0179 on the numpad will create the little cubed 3 for m3: m³ (which is just a handy thing for any text editor really)

Shift clicking any entry in the inventory tree will only show those items under that entry. You can use this to great effect with POSes by opening up the manufacturing, storage, and tower holds into separate windows. It also restores the old style of the corp hanger windows from before the inventory changes.

If you set a hotkey for the active ship cargo (the one I set to Alt C above) you can use it's tree to only see things for that ship such as drone bay, ore bay, fleet hanger, fuel bay, etc...

You can drag and drop items and drones into the icons on the fitting window to put those things into that bay.

If you can find the tiny crosshair near the top corner by the selected items menu you can move around the anchor for your active targets and can even set them to be vertical by right clicking it

There is an option in the chat channels to have a condensed list with no avatar pictures, great for local

Here is a tool called the "EVELogConcatenator", it'll take all of your chat and gamelogs (like the ones that scroll damage numbers or "warping to xxx" or "xx is trying to warp scramble you!") into single larger files that make up a month of logs. Keep in mind that if you never ran this tool before it could potentially take some time to read and collect ALL of your logs. Also, running the tool while EVE is open will cause it to crash. https://code.google.com/p/evelogconcatenator/

The Capital Navigation window cannot be opened unless you map a shortcut for it.

The universe map shows a sphere of jump range only when in unflattened mode.


There is no such thing as passive alignment. When your velocity vector is 0 m/s, it takes the same amount of time to start moving in any direction.

Ships don't face a direction; it is a figment of the client's imagination. The client just attempts to match the graphic to the vector, often resulting in slow ships warping sideways. At one time, T3 ships warped backwards because of a client bug.

If you stop a ship in space, you will notice that when it finally hits 0 m/s (takes minutes, even in an agile interceptor), the ship will spontaneously twitch into a different heading after being seemingly at rest. This is because at 0 m/s the client doesn't know which direction to point the graphic.