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This page is meant to help pilot who are newcomers get oriented, both around New Eden, and with our own interface.

**THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION**

### EvE: Online - A Terrible User Interface

Anyone who has spent more than 20 minutes in EvE has struggled navigating the UI.

Generally, that's what happens when a team keeps building on top of an infrastructure for 20 years without ever changing some of the core elements. While certain mechanics work beautifully, the actual interaction with them tends to drive folk away. Your first 20 minutes after the tutorial should see you messing with your interface and options. It becomes light-years easier to navigate once this is done, and ensures and actual pleasurable experience.

Should you do the in-game intro tutorial? If you are new to EvE: Online, absolutely. Unfortunately, the tutorial unlocks the UI in steps, and you are only granted full control when Aura says she will leave you alone. Then, you can sit and take your time to get set up.

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### Lot 52's Overview

The Overview is the window which determines everything you can see in space when undocked. It is crucial that pilots working together have settings in common to avoid confusion when in a fleet. The **Lot 52 Overview** is based off of **Barkkor's Overview** and contains tabs and various presets. As of now, these are the steps to install the company Overview, once you have completed the opening tutorial:

1. While undocked, in your Overview window, go to **Open Overview Settings > Misc** and select **Reset All Overview Settings** to clear your settings fully.
2. Click on the link provided in the corp bulletin labeled **Lot 52's Overview** and override your setting again. If you are not part of the corporation, you can join the in-game channel **L52 Public**, where we offer a complimentary link to it.
3. Set your Directional Scanner filter to **ShipsProbes** to ensure you are not caught unaware!

The default tabs are: *Travel/PvE, PvP, Drone, Frand, Loot, Mine,* and *GO!* and are color-coded. Below is a small description of what each preset is, and its function.

* **Combat** - colored in red, these are the bulk of presets, classed under combat presets.
	+ **Combat - Drones** - Primary setting for the *Drone* tab. Meant for small, tricky fights, this preset only shows drones and their types on the battlefield for quick switching between the *PvP* and *Drone* tabs.
	+ **Combat - Friendly** - Primary setting for the *Frand* tab. Used mainly by logisticians and assistants, it only shows friendly pilots. Can be used very effectively to plot formations.
	+ **Combat - Loot** - Primary setting for the *Loot* tab. Shows wrecks, containers, mobile depots/tractor units. Since looting has to be quick and efficient, this setting also shows collectable drones and cyno fields, but nothing else, including hostile ships.
	+ **Combat - NPC+NFS** - Primary setting for the *Travel/PvE* tab, and show NPCs and non-Friendlies. This is the setting most people will see most of the time. Drones and Friendlies do not show in this overview.
	+ **Combat - NPCOnly** - This alternate setting can be used in high-sec, and removes non-friendly ships from your overview, leaving just NPCs.
	+ **Combat - PvP** - Primary setting for the *PvP* tab. Everything you need for fleets, gangs, camps and roams. Shows all ships, stargates, stations, sun, cynos, scanner probes, warp disruption probes, mobile units, towers (as well as their force fields) and the jump portal array. Drones and Friendlies do not show in this overview.
	+ **Combat - StructureWar** - The alternate *PvP* preset is great for warfare involving structures, showing TCU, SBU, I-Hub, as well as all POS and station modules.

* **D-Scan** - colored in green, the D-Scan presets are meant to be used, as their name implies, in the D-Scan filter. The exception is the Scout preset, which is loaded by default under the GO! tab.
	+ **D-Scan - Scout** - Shows all celestials that can be warped to, as well as ships.
	+ **D-Scan - ShipsOnly** - Shows ships only.
	+ **D-Scan - ShipsProbes** - Primary setting for *GO!* tab (and should be set to be the primary filter for the D-Scan). Shows ships and combat/scanner probes only. This should be the standard filter loaded in D-Scan.
* **Industry** - colored in yellow, these two settings can be switched based on the kind of industry a pilot pursues.
	+ **Industry - Mining** - Primary setting for the *Mine* tab. Shows mineable asteroids.
	+ **Industry - PI** - Shows planetary interactions and customs offices, so that pilots can collect their goods safely.
* **Travel**
	+ **Travel - GatesOnly** - Perfect for highly busy systems or runners, this overview preset can quickly be switched into to show only the stargates, and nothing else.
	+ **Travel - GatesStationsCitas** - Similar to the other travel preset, this overview preset displays only stargates, NPC stations, and citadels.
* **Brackets**
	+ **X - BracketAll** - The standard brackets preset, showing all brackets in space.
	+ **X - BracketsLargeFleet** - A preset brackets your FC may ask you to switch to when running large operations.

As the corporation grows, we hope to simplify and clean up our Overview even more. For now, this will do.

### Where to go from here?

Are you brand new to EvE: Online? Things get quite overwhelming really fast. Assuming you have completed the opening tutorial and taken a moment to get set up, you are free to do as you wish! WHEE! Well, assuming you are new to EvE and somehow reading this, the actual thing you may want to do is search for our corporation and send an application, since it's probably what you are here for. You should absolutely look into doing every one of the Tutorial missions, available at the station Aura leaves you in. These will easily take you to your first million, as well as give you a handful of free ships.

While looking around and familiarizing yourself with things, after your opening missions are done, make your way to our headquarters, located at **Allamotte VI - Moon 2 - Quafe Company Warehouse**, which you can find via the search function on the map. If you have already been accepted into the corporation, take a quick look at our bulletins to familiarize yourself with some of the inner workings of the corp, and be sure to check if any internal documents are posted.

Once in the corp, you will automatically be moved to our corp chat, but you can also enter our public channel, **L52 Public**, to see if anyone is in it. Other ways to connect with folk are via our Discord server. Since Discord is the primary method for our comms, all members are to be in it if intending to participate in larger fleet operations. Our group is friendly, and the server has several members of the corp, allies, and friends who are part of it it, guaranteeing folk to help you on your journey, so don't be shy. Do check the rules tho.

What are your goals and aspirations? Are you staying with us for a short while, to learn, or are you looking to help the group grow as a whole? We recommend that new players take a look at how they can participate in our corporation, as well as consider tuning their skills to our suggested skill plan before specializing in a particular field. Members can look through their **Fitting Management** window and see our corporate fits, so they can get an idea of where they may wish to specialize first. Remember that our fits and activities are currently a bit limited, but there are many career paths in EvE, and some can take years to develop.

## See Also

Lot 52 and You

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