However a very quick and simple update to the overview would be to colour angualr velocity readouts based on the percent damage reduction due to tracking.

So a target with an angular velocity which results in less than 10% reduction in damage would be green.
A target with an angualr velocity which results in more than 90% reduction in damage would be deep red.
Inbetween it would go from green to red (via yellow and orange) and objects with 0 tracking penulty they would be blue.

This requires no extra server load as it already tells the client the angualr velocity and your tracking speed.

You could do something similar with range for reductions due to falloff, and even sig radius.

Then you could imediately tell from the overview which ships are best to shoot at based on tracking speeds and range.

True, but this is a minor tweak of a current feature that would be relatively quick and cheep to implement.
Wheras removing the overview for something better would be a massive undertaking that they are not about to do.

This wasn't supposed to be an ultimate best solution to the problem but a quick fix that would make what we currently have better.

The overview already has Velocity, Radial Velocity, Transversal Velocity and Angular Velocity. You just have to enable them.
I think what he's saying is that new players don't know what those changing numbers mean right away, so if for example transversal velocity of half your targets was so high that your tracking would be compromised, change the color of the number in that column red. If it is stationary, make it blue. For all other numbers in between combine those colors in respect to how much of a damage penalty your guns will take due to target transversal/angular/whatever velocity.

This will be all client side calculations and you can totally disable it already. It is something that could be done right away with little effort (compared to many things anyway) and could be iterated on later with better visual feedback like icons and such.

I think it would be wonderful if more and more devs felt this way. Hopefully the feedback from this thread, and its general tone, will encourage more such efforts in the future.

After all, you can catch more devs with honey than with vinegar.

Several people are saying that transversal / angular velocity / speed need to be visible on the target graphics.

Maybe CCP can add a feature where your ship automatically approaches optimal in the most effective way WRT transversal, and maybe then they could turn the guns on automatically too.

Oh and they could autopilot your alt's hulk into a belt and mine some veld for you while you're at it.

Sheesh.