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Mastering your Overview
2. Standard Tab
This is what you use most of your EVE life. Must-read full tutorial.
<- BackWhat is an overview tab? Well, a tab holds a specific overview configuration. When using multiple tabs, they will appear next to each other at the top of the overview, such as with channels (Local, Corp, Alliance, etc.) for easy change with a single mouse-click. We will configure multiple overview settings now and put them all into their respective tabs.
The first one we will configure is called "Standard", as it is used for when travelling, hanging out, ratting, exploration, core scanning and occasional mission whoring. This one you will use most of the time unless you are in a fleet, camping hostiles, combat scanning or in a capital ship and it will unarguably hold all necessary information and nothing else!
As you have learned before, "Open Overview Settings" again, and this time we select the "Filter" tab. "Filter" is the only tab we will need from now on, as all other stuff is general settings that we already did before. Once you have opened "Filter", click on "Deselect all" to start with a fresh selection. You will notice that everything disappears from your overview, as seen below:
On the left side of the picture above, you will notice certain type groups e.g. Asteroids. We'll unfold each of these categories, double-check that nothing is selected and then check what is desired. Copy the settings exactly from the type groups below! I will also add comments.
Asteroid
(Asteroids we definitely do not want to see in overview, unless we are using a mining tab):
Celestial
(This will add all the interesting shit to overview that you have been missing and get rid of spam such as anchored containers and mission platforms we do not need to shoot at. It is important to double check this one, you will later find out why it can save your life!):
Charge
(Incoming bomb? Might be a good time to get the fuck out):
Deployable
(This one is interesting, if you get inside its range you can no longer warp away):
Drone
(Don't put them in overview, not even fighters. They'd fill your overview in no time. If you get attacked by them, you'll see their types in status log anyway):
Entity
(This one is a monster. I have removed uninteresting things that you'll never be shooting at and as such would spam your overview with no useful information. The only reason I've checked Capture Point and Control Bunker is for when you do Factional Warfare or gank them whores - but you can keep them unchecked):
NPC
(Add "Faction Navy NPC" only if you are doing Factional warfare, all the rest is entirely useless):
Planetary Interaction
(Indeed PI structures are entirely useless in overview even if you do a lot of PI):
Ship
(Yes, we want all of them. Even Rookie ships. After each update with new ships you need to check back in here and add ALL the new ships!):
Sovereignty Structures
(We don't usually want to see TCU's and IHubs in the overview, but SBU's are definitely of major interest):
Station
(I've heard about the rumor that it is possible to dock at stations, so we want this one):
Structure
(This one needs explanation. I've only added those arrays which are of huge strategical interest or which no longer exist on the market and are thus worth many billions of ISK. With this lagfree setup the only modules of a standard POS to be displayed in overview are the Control tower itself and the Forcefield. No need for more in standard tab):
Now since we have configured all types, we're almost done. Click on the "States" tab as shown below and make sure all items are checked.
Great, now save your work and you have the standard setting which is used for all other tabs to come later in this tutorial! Right-click on that little arrow left to "Not saved", select "Save Current Type Selection as..." and enter the name "Standard". Overwrite it, if it already exists. Shown below:
Now, we sort the overview per distance! Click on the "distance" field so it shows the tiny arrow upwards so everything that is close to you is at the top of the overview. You might also want to drag the vertical lines a bit so that you see enough "Type" information on the overview. Sometimes you need to horizontally enlarge the overview window to even find "Type", you'll get it done anyhow. And now... fly to a populated station and fall in love with your standard overview!
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