Overview, Local Chat & Situational Awareness
Your Overview shows objects and pilots on grid; Local shows who is in the system where local is available. Together with d-scan, they are your basic awareness tools.
The Overview is one of the most important interfaces in EVE. It controls which ships, gates, stations, structures, wrecks, drones, and other objects you can quickly see and interact with. Local chat can also be a security tool because it shows pilots in system in most normal space. In null-sec, corporation and alliance standing colors matter: unknown or neutral pilots can represent a threat. In wormhole space, Local behaves differently and cannot be treated as a reliable list of everyone present. Build the habit of checking Overview, Local, and d-scan instead of staring only at your modules or mining lasers.
New Pilot Guidance
Do not try to make one Overview tab show everything. Use useful tabs or a trusted overview setup so combat, travel, mining, and loot objects are easier to read. Ask corporation members which overview package the group uses before changing dozens of filters yourself.
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