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Sader Rykane
Amarr Midnight Sentinels Midnight Space Syndicate
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Posted - 2010.02.22 00:53:00 -
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Originally by: Akita T
Maybe you also didn't know that (for a while now) holding down CTRL freezes your overview, then forces a reset when you release it (so it also clears up any "ghost" items you had on it for any reason).
**** I forgot about that.
Sig Gallery is currently down: Contact me ingame for prices.
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PuncherDavis
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Posted - 2010.02.22 03:40:00 -
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Playing on and off for 7+ years now.. things i learned the hard way.
You can left click on system name in top left corner u can drag it down to a chat box and auto link it
You can left click any player name in local fleet or whatever and drag it to a chat and auto link it.
You can type in the first three letters of any object in eve LEFT click and highlight just those three letters then right click and many options come up.
You can type in a persons name corp etc with the above.
Ever been talking in multiple chat rooms and not paying attention.. Tab to wrong channel see a neutral in chat and warp the whole fleet off.. While in the real local nobody is their but you.
DID not know you could double left click 2500 meter deal or that double click would open it ( shesh)
Ever put a shield amplifier on thinking it was a shield booster.. and cussing and spending an hour trying to figure out why your tank sucks..
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Eric Policky
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Posted - 2010.02.22 04:35:00 -
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This thread should be stickied. Possibly in EVE New Citizens Q&A. Seriously, especially considering how clunky the interface (is)seems. A lot of frustration for new players (even veterans) could be alleviated with some of the things mentioned in this thread. Things that make you headdesk when you learn about them, but that there is no real way to learn them without dumb luck / someone telling you.
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Sprilk
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Posted - 2010.02.22 04:40:00 -
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I have nearly 80M skill points been in since 2004...
2 weeks ago i had to ask some corp mates (much younger in the game then me) to explain guns, tracking, optimal, falloff, all that jaz because i had no clue at all...
Missiles for the win. (has now started training gunnery... because well its about time really.)
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Taedrin
Gallente The Green Cross DEFI4NT
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Posted - 2010.02.22 04:42:00 -
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Player since 2005, and I still suck at this game. ----------
Originally by: Dr Fighter "how do you know when youve had a repro accident"
Theres modules missing and morphite in your mineral pile.
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Neesa Corrinne
Stimulus Rote Kapelle
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Posted - 2010.02.22 07:02:00 -
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Originally by: Sprilk I have nearly 80M skill points been in since 2004...
2 weeks ago i had to ask some corp mates (much younger in the game then me) to explain guns, tracking, optimal, falloff, all that jaz because i had no clue at all...
Missiles for the win. (has now started training gunnery... because well its about time really.)
Don't feel bad. Cause even if you knew how tracking worked 100% a year ago, it all works completely different now.
Oh for the good old days when tracking was based off of speed instead of signature radius, when the 5% per level speed bonus on my vagabond actually meant something!
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Khors
Amtek Inc
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Posted - 2010.02.22 07:27:00 -
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Originally by: CyberGh0st I recently found out you can do weapon grouping INSIDE a station !
HOW?!?!?!!?!?!?! -
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Marlona Sky
D00M. Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2010.02.22 07:46:00 -
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Originally by: Khors
Originally by: CyberGh0st I recently found out you can do weapon grouping INSIDE a station !
HOW?!?!?!!?!?!?!
Open the fitting screen, make sure you don't have ammo loaded, click and drag the guns/launchers onto each other. Just like in space.
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Ashira Twilight
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Posted - 2010.02.22 08:46:00 -
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Oh god, some of this makes me feel like a noob.
Double click approach? wtf, nobody told me! I have been double clicking in the general direction and right clicking approach
Dragging around the capacitor stuff? oops, forgot about that
Grouping in station? *slaps forehead*
Ctrl refreshes the overview? Well, no more minimizing and maximizing.....
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kano donn
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Posted - 2010.02.22 09:40:00 -
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Here is a great one.
Your orbit is not limited.
Once you click on a ship and at the top right of your screen, you get those buttons with approach, orbit, keep at range... etc.
You can right click orbit and keep at range -> Then enter a number from 500m-150km for orbit, and 0-150 for keep at range.
Now you have a new default.
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loggs
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Posted - 2010.02.22 11:24:00 -
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I only found out that the EW drone skill adds 3km to all drone operation ranges per level after 4 years.
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Morgan Zahadum
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Posted - 2010.02.22 11:33:00 -
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This topic is easily the best I've lurked into trying to work this game out. So much so my first post goes in honour of you guys for helping me not make these same mistakes.
A drink to you all tonight in the pub I think.
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Slade Trillgon
Endless Possibilities Inc. Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2010.02.22 13:29:00 -
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Originally by: Morgan Zahadum This topic is easily the best I've lurked into trying to work this game out. So much so my first post goes in honour of you guys for helping me not make these same mistakes.
A drink to you all tonight in the pub I think.
Absorb all the goodies here and when the time comes that some vet says something that you know a shortcut for, they will be enternally gratefull.
Slade
Originally by: Niccolado Starwalker
Please go sit in the corner, and dont forget to don the shame-on-you-hat!
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Baron Agamemnon
Caldari Holy Grail Construction Aegis Militia
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Posted - 2010.02.22 13:39:00 -
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Originally by: Nebulous I once made a Caldari char
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So did I, back when beign Achura actually meant something (hint: low charimsa). --- "And thus, another of the world's dreamers died, taking his dreams with him. Just as John Lennon wanted world peace, Gerald Bull simply wanted a gun big enough to fire **** into space." |
Essence Praetor
PWNED Factor
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Posted - 2010.02.22 14:26:00 -
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Edited by: Essence Praetor on 22/02/2010 14:25:55
Originally by: Naomi Wildfire
Quote: but i forgot hiden sesion timer -.-
Its not hidden, you can make it watchable -> ESC -> General Settings -> Show Session Change Timer
Now you can see it in the left top corner ... i found it after 3 or 4 years...
This would be awesome. But I just tried it, flew my ship around, jumped through gates, and even self-destructed a shuttle.
On what part of the screen would I be looking for such a timer?
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Xyfu
Minmatar Brutor tribe
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Posted - 2010.02.22 17:08:00 -
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Originally by: Essence Praetor Edited by: Essence Praetor on 22/02/2010 14:25:55
Originally by: Naomi Wildfire
Quote: but i forgot hiden sesion timer -.-
Its not hidden, you can make it watchable -> ESC -> General Settings -> Show Session Change Timer
Now you can see it in the left top corner ... i found it after 3 or 4 years...
This would be awesome. But I just tried it, flew my ship around, jumped through gates, and even self-destructed a shuttle.
On what part of the screen would I be looking for such a timer?
Top-left.
Quote: You can right click orbit and keep at range -> Then enter a number from 500m-150km for orbit, and 0-150 for keep at range.
200k, by my last recollection. _____ ^ That is a sig line. It should be there without me having to put one in. |
Akita T
Caldari Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2010.02.22 17:53:00 -
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Originally by: Essence Praetor On what part of the screen would I be looking for such a timer?
It's a tiny animated rotating-stylized-flowery thingy on the upper-left-most part of the "space" area of the screen, barely visible at higher resolutions (I think it's something like 12x12 pixels, or very close to that), but at least it has a "pop-up" when you hover over its general area with your mouse cursor. Hard to describe in words.
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Beginner's ISK making guide | Manufacturer's helper | All about reacting _
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Lance Fighter
Amarr
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Posted - 2010.02.22 18:03:00 -
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Originally by: Akita T
Originally by: Essence Praetor On what part of the screen would I be looking for such a timer?
It's a tiny animated rotating-stylized-flowery thingy on the upper-left-most part of the "space" area of the screen, barely visible at higher resolutions (I think it's something like 12x12 pixels, or very close to that), but at least it has a "pop-up" when you hover over its general area with your mouse cursor. Hard to describe in words.
its the same rotaty thingie that shows up in the top right of the market and such when it loads OHGODS BELOW THIS LINE IS MY SIG !!!! SRSLY! Blane Xero > Lance is at -0.9 sec status with a 1 million bounty. Lance is also amarrian. Thats 3 evil points |
Pius Piramonde
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Posted - 2010.02.22 18:22:00 -
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Edited by: Pius Piramonde on 22/02/2010 18:22:26 I'm only 2 months in, so making gaffes like this almost weekly.
Here's a couple: - I thought I had completely exhausted all Learning skills, after completing the first handful (analytic mind, etc.) Couldn't understand why my training times were so long...
- I used to always reject Storyline missions, as I found them distracting from whatever else I was doing. Could not understand why my faction standings were so low...
Heh heh - I'm sure there will be many more like these ahead...
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Last Wolf
Rage For Order
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Posted - 2010.02.22 18:40:00 -
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My first loss with my first character
http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?id=189549
Besides, I'm never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down |
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Essence Praetor
PWNED Factor
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Posted - 2010.02.22 19:16:00 -
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I see it. Win
Man this is gonna come in handy
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Devlyn McKhon
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Posted - 2010.02.22 19:51:00 -
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I'v been playing for about 6 months, give or take, and found some good tips here. thx all.
Here are a few tips for manipulating items in inventoy that I'v learned since playing, can make moving stuff around much easier.
Click an item, scroll down and while holding shift click another item, will select every thing between the two.
Holding ctrl will select only the items you click on.
And i was glad when i learned this one, click the first item and hit ctrl A, that will select every item in the container or bay.
last, station containers are cheap inventory controll, at least till ccp comes up with a workable solutioon.
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Farrellus Cameron
Sturmgrenadier Inc Gentlemen's Club
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Posted - 2010.02.22 19:52:00 -
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It was a few months into the game before I realized that shift-drag will split stacks. I was creating market orders and then canceling them to split stacks.
I think it was about two or three years before I learned about the ewar drone skill adding 3km to ALL drone ranges.
I was shield tanking my gallente frigates and destroyer in the beginning. It really annoyed me that the catalyst only had two mids because I was fitting a shield booster. So I usually didn't have an afterburner fit and would take forever to fly through the missions.
I had a friend who was pulling missions in a system neighboring low sec. He kept getting sent into the low sec system for missions but didn't have any trouble for like a week. Then one day four flashy pirates in battleships warped into his mission and blew up his caracal. He thought they were NPCs at first. He was visibly upset at losing his caracal, it was very traumatic. This was about 4 years ago.
Also about four years ago I was ratting in low sec at one point and decided it was ok to go AFK in the belt while going to the bathroom. I came back to find a megathron tackling my thorax and I was almost dead. Then the guy in the mega apologized because he had mistaken me for a local pirate he was hunting and gave me like 10 million isk for my trouble. It was a ton of isk to me at the time. ----------------------------------------------------
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Sophie Telrunya
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Posted - 2010.02.22 19:58:00 -
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You can activate a Pilot License Extension item from the assets menu, that is you don't have to be in the same station as the item.
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Leneerra
Minmatar Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2010.02.22 20:59:00 -
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I guess this compares to taking a filled up freighter into lowsec without scouting ahead, except you know how much you lost much faster that way. What I did: When I learned of the theft that occurred in ebank by ricdic, I believed their management at the time that all would be well, and left over 4B isk in my savings account.
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Frecator Dementa
Caldari
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Posted - 2010.02.22 21:18:00 -
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Edited by: Frecator Dementa on 22/02/2010 21:18:53
Originally by: u die Hold left and right mouse button on an empty area next to the capacitor circle and drag the whole interface to the left or right.
Originally by: Scientist2536 double clicking items in your overview will either make you approach them or if your within 2500m, double clicking will open them (cans, wrecks, structures)
oh... my... GOD !
Why the hell doesn't the game tell us these things? |
Malcanis
Vanishing Point. The Initiative.
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Posted - 2010.02.22 21:27:00 -
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I have learned several interesting things in this thread.
On a side note, I firmly believe that CCP doesn't document EVE not just because they're lazy drunken bums, but also because they like to incentivise the players to talk to each other. And it works.
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Frecator Dementa
Caldari
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Posted - 2010.02.22 21:28:00 -
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Originally by: Akita T
Originally by: Essence Praetor On what part of the screen would I be looking for such a timer?
It's a tiny animated rotating-stylized-flowery thingy on the upper-left-most part of the "space" area of the screen, barely visible at higher resolutions (I think it's something like 12x12 pixels, or very close to that), but at least it has a "pop-up" when you hover over its general area with your mouse cursor. Hard to describe in words.
It's disabled by default, you need to go into Menu - General Settings - Show Session-change-something ----------------------- Sell technetium, sell it fast, sell my lemmings, go down to 1500 ISK per unit, where my endless wallet will gobble it all up and resell it to you for 666,666.66 ISK per unit, |
Bomberlocks
Minmatar Tribal Liberation Force
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Posted - 2010.02.22 23:14:00 -
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Originally by: Apoctasy
Originally by: Bomberlocks My story is that I had absolutely no idea what I was doing when I started off in eve. I didn't realise how important skill training was and thus I spent my first month in eve flying around in first a slasher and then a rifter ratting in hisec belts wondering how on earth other people were flying battleships and other shiny stuff and how they could afford them. I didn't do any missions because, in my very first non-training mission, I got the level 1 break their will mission and got my noob ship killed by the very first npc (angel highjacker lol). That traumatised me enough to think that all missions were hard no matter what you flew. Then, after that first month I started doing missions again but for any agent who would speak to me, meaning that my standings with the various npc corps hardly rose at all.
It was only after I joined my first corp that I started realising what eve is all about.
If that is what you think Eve is about, then lol.
I think you misread my post. I mean that was when I started learning from corpies what pvp was, what tanking meant, skills, how losec and nullsec worked, how fitting a point is a good idea if you don't want to watch that target warp off, how to avoid a podding etc.
Before then I knew absolutely nothing.
Now, with 23 million SP and one and a half years into the game I know that I still know nothing, but the knowledge that I know nothing sometimes saves me from making too many avoidable mistakes.
The tip about how to avoid being podded was one of the best ones (when you're in deep structure and going down fast, select an overview planet etc and start spamming the warp button. much faster than selecting an object, right clicking and selecting warp to).
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Arvano
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Posted - 2010.02.22 23:20:00 -
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You can CTRL+Left click to lock on to targets?
4 months and I never knew.
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