Keyboard Shortcuts
Greetings Newbies, here is your Eve Online Tip of the day
I don't want to overwhelm you here, but there are a TONS of keyboard shortcuts that can make your game more enjoyable. I'm going to focus on the ones I use daily. Defaults should be stuck to whenever possible.
A reminder, you can hover over your 'selected items' button to see these if you forget them.
Combat:
- Aligning: Double clicking in space, **Double click in your overview**, OR Hitting A and clicking, even on history
- Approach: Hold Q and click
- Orbit: Hold W and click
- Keep at range: Hold E and click
- Warp: Hold S and click (I remap because mistakes)
- Jump/dock: Hold D and click (I remap because mistakes)
- Targeting: Control key click to target, shift-control key to untarget
- Look at: alt key click (when the target initiates warp, the camera snaps back to you)
- Focus camera: Hold C and click
- Show info: Hold T and click
- Activate modules: F1 through F8, shift F1 to overheat, can rearrange modules
- Stop: Control-space
- Full speed: alt-control-space
- Broadcast: x for target, have to map the rest, I use S for shield, D for Armor
- Drones: F to engage, Shift R to recall drones, Shift-F to launch favorite drones
- Local bookmarks: L
- Make bookmark: Control-B
- Dscan rescan: V
- Probe rescan: B
- Probe resize: alt-scroll wheel
- Probe reorient: double click
- Fitting: alt-f
- Open cargo: alt-c
- Talk in chat window: space
- Show window list: control-tab (find a lost chat)
- Show statistics: Control-alt-shift-M
- Select all- control-A
- Copy - Control-c
- Paste - control-v
- Take a screen shot: Windows key +Shift - S - use this for asking for help and paste to newbies.
Please go test every single one of these shortcuts ASAP!