Archive for the ‘Overview Setup’ Category

Freebooted is looking for a way to catalog some of the blogs in the pack , and after my reintroduction the other day I thought I woudl help a brother blogger out.  Cause I’m a helpful mule not just a stubborn one.

A Mule in EvE , started out a personal Diary of my travels through EvE.

Over my  time in the pack, this blog has morphed a bit into a place where people can come and read about 0.0 from someone who lives there.

I use categories to try to give people clues.

I try to offer help to new people in the categories: “Game Mechanics” & “Lessons Learned” & “Overview Setup”

I Offer different views on ships from a Large Alliance  PvP perspective: Giving way to the Category: “Ship Info”

I write editorial views on thins happening in game: “War News” as well as things out of game  “OOG news” and “Patch Changes”

I have written some fiction and although I’ve not written fiction ever i my life at least I get to try. Category is “fiction”

Every now and then I ask people their opinions about the site in the “Web Changes” category

My writing style is 1 part stream of consciousness, 1 part I gotta tell people what happens to CEPTA & SyS-K and 2 Parts ” Damn people need to know something” + an extra heaping of mule’ish behavior over certain things (not liking Drakes for PvP as an example) + a dash of  spicing of pretty EvE ships.

Manasi is  an older Character ( May 30th, 2003) SO I have seen the game change Dramatically, and while I do not reminisce much, I sometimes compare & contrast.

I’m stubborn kinda like a good cat/dog is stubborn at always waking you up at 3:00 AM for hearing a squirrel and thinking it is an intruder but I gotta go wake the master who is sleeping soundly kind of stubborn…

Hope this helps ya Freebooted

Many moons ago I created an Overview guide that many people used.  My switches back and forth between servers has made many of the old post with pictures not nearly as valuable as they used to be… so I have recreated it per Bob’s wish

P.S. while I was updating the Screen shots the server crashed last night so I will update this as I can.

P.P.S. I also added posts to different categories and will allow people to search through those to find posts …the serach feature isn’t working near as well as I would like.

This setup is designed with several ideas in mind:

1) Do not ever shoot a friendly…as Dee Carson said once..friendly fire.. isn’t!

2) the Overview setting controls three main areas, the background, the chat channels and the overview window.  NEVER EVER EVER target via the background window. ALWAYS target via the overview.

PvP Overview setup:

1. RED BOLD ~ mandatory
2. blue Italics ~ optional
3. Green italics ~ take note
4. Underlines ~ different groups within the Types tab

To start, right click the little white triangle next to the Overview name.

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Types

1. Bottom of the screen deselect all 2. Asteroids group leave all unchecked 3. Celestial Group...check the following: * Beacon * Sun * Wreck 4. Charge Group * Bomb * Bomb ECM * Bomb Energy 5. Deployable * Mobil warp disruptor 6. Drone *** personal choice I select none for fleet pvp setup 7. Entity ...leave all unchecked 8. NPC...check Pirate NPC 9. Ship...select ALL 10. Sov structures * Infrastructure Hubs * Sovreingty Blockade Units * Territorial Claim units 11. Station...I leave unchecked 12. Structure...all unchecked

Some notes about the types:

Start with all checked or none. I deselect all.  If you want different overviews with different ships the Types tab is the place to come.  Use the same states for all overviews ( unless you are a logistics pilot in which case you want to use the opposite and only show friendlies of particular types of ships)

• If you mine obviously the Asteroids tab is for you..pvp avoid this tab
  Celestial
  • Sun ~ always a good warp to point if you don’t have an escape Tab set.
  • Beacons show the cynosural fields …these are important.
  • Wrecks are also located here
• Charge
  • Bombs hurt select these
• Deployable
  • Mobile warp disruption fields are nasty
• Drones is optional but can lag out your system
  Entity nothing important for PvP
  NPC
  • Pirates ~ show the pirates at the gates
• Ships
  • Select as many as you need.. I have 4 pvp setups.. shows All ships…show Support ships ( BC and below) and Battleships and Capitals
• Sov structures
  • The IH, SBU and TCU on the overview if needed
• Station..do not bother

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STATES tab

check the following boxes:

States

1) Security status below 0 2) Bad standing 3) Bounty on him 4) Horrible standing 5) Neutral standing 6) Outlaw 7) Pilot is at war 8) War w/ militia 9) Wreck is already viewed 10) Wreck is empty

Some notes about the States:

This is the most CRITICAL part of the setup..the setup I am asking people to use is NOT the one i specifically use for two main reasons:

1. People MUST learn to setup the overview according to THEIR alliance
2. Those NOT in alliances might need some of these settings

• Security Status below 0, Bounty, are optional ( Security Status below 0, for some reason or other, this seems to alleviate many issues with pilots NOT showing up in any other sort of state as described below)
• Bad standing, Horrible standing, Neutral standing ( if you live under NRDS take this one off, or leave it checked if you live under NBSI) and Outlaw should always be checked
• Pilot is at war, should also always be checked
• Wreck already viewed, Wreck is empty are optional as this can really lag out your system

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Appearance

• check all the Colortags in that tab
• check all in the Backgrounds tab ***personal preference
• check all in the Ewar tab

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Columns

Columns show on the overview as such they contain good information I use the following:

1. Icon ( optional)
2. Distance (critical)
3. Type ( critical)
4. Name (critical)
5. Velocity ~ to kill someone they had better be going slower than you
6. Traversal Velocity ~ for gunnery to be effective this number should be low as possible
7. Angular Velocity~ While I do not use this some do and claim it is great way of when to know when to shoot

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NOW GO SAVE ALL YOUR WORK

From the filter tab click the triangle  and save current selection type as whatever you want to call it (mine is PvP)

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Overview Tabs

The easiest way to use this is to realize there are bracket profiles & overview profiles.  Make them match up.  i.e. you have a PvP overview make that the selection for both Overview profile and the bracket profile.  If this confuses you too much simply select no brackets from this, or leave it blank

Bracket profile deserve some mention here but I want to keep the post as short as I can.

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Brackets

When I go into a fleet fight I turn off all brackets ( brackets are the small little icons that show on the main screen i.e. the gates, planets, asteroids etc, stopping the rendering all those)  works incredible well I have been in 49-U6U with over 1300  people and seen lower lag with my PvP overview and all brackets turned off.

~hope it helps

Manasi

Hey all perhaps you might care to enlighten me.

Why do people dislike the “big blob”?  I hear lots of people I respect and admire all say I want small gang warfare etc..Why is that?

I honestly do not know.  I like the small fleets but I also REALLY like the large scale tactical engagements.

I have run in small gangs and huge 250 man fleets, so I have seen the spectrum and I do not understand why people seem to dislike the large fleets so much.

It is not that I think people are not telling me the truth.  I think they believe that there is something inherently ‘bad’ about a large fleet, or groups of fleets or whatever.  People lament all the time of I got killed by a ‘blob’ and then many people lament, ” Oh I hate blobs”

Large fleets are simply spectacular and I can see where things might need to be tweaked rather than eliminated.

Lag from large fights is I think a major culprit

Try this to help:

• • Filter your damned overview
    • I run 8 different overview setups
  • Turn off brackets
  • Minimize local

Inability to understand target  calls

• • Try sorting by something Alpha, ship types etc

Other than these two reasons… what am I missing? Is there some huge glaring issue that maybe people could point to?

The floor is yours please let me know.

Thanks to DSJ for getting us started, hi assertion ( which I believe BTW) is that no one wants to be out numbered…if that is the case don’t undock…Thanks DSJ for getting the ball rollling!

So thanks to some very good comments the problem is feeling helpless against superior numbers, which admittedly is understandable.

Next task on the checklist get people to stop saying “I hate blobs”, and remind them that “they fear being out numbered”

Please add comments if you like!  I certainly appreciate those that took time to write in.