this isn't the best idea ever.

CCP won't allow macros to affect the overview/targeting panes due to auto-locking botnet whatever.

You sir are a god among men.

Okay tell me this isn't the best idea ever...

I was sitting here wishing for more overview tabs, way more.

Of course I realized that you can only have so many, before you'd have to start scrolling the tabs back and forth, or dragging your overview across half the screen. Which EVE can technically be played with, but would make it very hard to spin the camera and fly manually or look at the battlefield.

This is also a problem with the different overview columns... in order to see things like velocity, radial, transversal, [anyone even care about?] angular... you have to drag the overview quite wide. For me, on a 1080p screen, it's too far and interfering with my internet spaceship visuals and even the ability to see the grid well. People on a non-widescreen, smaller screen, or lower resolution, I'd hate to be you.

So I've posted in the past, and am a big proponent of huge, radical, total rebuilds and changes to EVE, like building a new game engine from scratch. Pretty much nobody wants this, or even if they want it... even the people who would like to see this for EVE, say it literally CAN'T or just will never be done by CCP. Okay fine, I'll still play it with the gameplay we have now, but give me much more control over my interface.

One of my biggest complaints with EVE is the spreadsheets. The overview, local, d-scan, fleet chat, fleet broadcasts, fleet list (sometimes), intel channels... on and on. The result is, you have to do a lot of clicking on tiny little tabs and buttons, to switch between all your different information panels (spreadsheets).

This is getting TL;DR... so here's what I'm suggesting:

Give me total control over the UI.



- First, allow me to create an (effectively) infinite amount of Overview presets. 99? 999? I'd be happy with 99, hell even 10 or 20, but this would all be client side, correct? So it should be possible, and have no effect on the servers or anyone else's client, right?

- Allow me to save any UI 'state' into a preset. Which windows are open, which tabs are at 'front', how big each window is, what COLUMNS it displays...

- Allow me to map any of the presets to a hotkey/combo.

BAM! I can be a space pilot GOD!!!!!!

Cntrl+1 = PVP targets (all shiptypes, no blues shown, no celestials/cans/beacons/anything else)
Cntrl+2 = Gates only
Cntrl+3 = Stations and Gates only
Cntrl+4 = Stations and Gates and all Ships (even blues)
Cntrl+5 = Beacons and ships
Cntrl+6 = Beacons only
Cntrl+S = Overview "THIS" size
Cntrl+C = Overview "THAT size (column width too)
Cntrl+V = "This" overview with Local+Dscan (in certain saved positions/sizes/etc)
Cntrl+B = "That" overview with Fleet broadcasts, Local here, fleet chat there, X sizes, etc

Unlimited hotkeys for unlimited UI "states". Any window, configuration of windows, size, shape, what they're showing... can be "snapshotted" and saved, able to be recalled with a hotkey.

Make it a quick easy process... once the arranging/setting is done... *snap* hotkey-x snapshots the current UI state, box opens to save a name for it, like OV presets.

Then to map hit a keystroke that brings up a list of your mappable presets, you select which one, then you do the hotkey/keystroke you want to map it to, and done.

Anyone have those "MMO" mice or keyboards, with all the macro keys/buttons? I'd buy one in an instant for this. Thumb keypad for overview presets, keyboard macro buttons for UI window "states" and arrangements.

GLO-RI-OUS.

Any reasons why not? This idea is PURE GOLD.

CCP I like my paychecks how I like my JG Wentworth, one lump sum. You're welcome.

Are you seriously bumping your thread every few hours? Are asking for a dev response? Its a good suggestion, let it stand for itself instead of shoving it down everyone's throats

Inb4 lock. Bump once a day not once an hour. Rules are rules.

My 2 isk: Ctrl + Shift + Tab will switch between overviews and Ctrl + Shift + # will load what preset you created.

Minus that, the only problem I see is I want less things on my screen and more pretty spaceships.

1. More overview presets
2. Map hotkeys to presets
3. Add "configurations" (groups of presets)
4. Map hotkeys to swapping between configurations
5. ?????

Inb4 lock. Bump once a day not once an hour. Rules are rules.

A hotkey for D-scan "SCAN"

That's been requested several times and *no, there are some issues with that. Currently it's not possible for reasons.*

Yes I support any move away from clicking actions. Clicking requires an accurate motion with the mouse, and of course the physical movement of the mouse away from controlling the ship. Hotkeys allow you to manipulate the client in place.

It's not just an issue of the mouse travelling to the tab, it's the time it takes to travel back to tactical readiness. Your eyes, as well.

If you can switch overview tabs with hotkeys, even cycle through them, your mouse cursor is free to prepare for more practical things.

You will have this overviews for ship only or to a wreck only, and others, 99 in sum, and you wil remember them and you will have every shortcut remembered, is that right?
Bind shortcut to overview tab is all we need, nothing else.

One thing I would love is if CCP would allow me to have one session that can span onto dual screens. It would have the 'space' and ship view on one side, and only all my UI stuff on the second side.

Maybe I am missing what you are asking for. But I do this now. All my chat, HUD, overview, targets, probes, necom are on my left screen, and the right has Space, my ship, and sometimes my Cargo Hold and that is all.

I am running a Fixed Window size of 3840x1080 running a GTS450.

but people like me could use hotkeys to change between 10-15 even faster.

Doing this is slightly problematic if you use monitors with different vertical resolutions though.

How faster it would be to identify target of interest when you have 15 different overviews to remember and switch thru them when you need it? I think 5 is enough, have been enough for 12 years. For different activities you can even import the settings now.

Doing this is slightly problematic if you use monitors with different vertical resolutions though.

ALSO

A hotkey for D-scan "SCAN"

Please?