With the return of the NC Titans to the north, Guardians are no longer safe and we have even started to lose some. Coupled with the sometimes irregular loading after jumping/bridging, cap chain management has become an issue. We must solve this so that PL pilots no longer fear for the safety of their Hellcat comfort, spewing death and destruction on our foe in minimal effort orbits, randomly prodding the keyboard hoping to hit F1.
Sometimes you find guidance in the strangest place. From the porn of our enemies came the idea to arrange Guardian chains directly from the overview. At first we mocked their attempts at this including such gems as locking up every other logistics buddy to the point they no longer had slots open to rep the rest of the fleet.
But we are not them and our logi pilots are gods among men, heroes of the Legion and superhuman machines of awesomeness. Thus we will succeed were they have failed and the proposal is this:
As a Guardian pilot you create an overview filter showing nothing but friendly logistics and sort it alphabetically. Put this in a separate tab and when asked by the Thumb pick out the two pilots next to you. This requires some literacy on the part of the individual, since you yourself will not show up and thus you need to know your own name and its place in the list. You can now add these two to your watchlist as normal if you want and leave that tab for a bit. The next step is where the main advantage comes into play.
When in combat and you suddenly see your cap buddy go down in flames, simply swap to the fleet logi overview and pick out the next one. No extra effort posting new chains and trying to find them in chat. Similarly when bridging in and ending up all over the place the Thumb can just order "reform chain" and everyone can instantly see who is alive and on grid with you. If someone new enters in a reinforcement Guardian, same thing.
No longer shall we be bound by simple typing and spelling and stuff. I, for one, welcome our new overview overlords.
edit: If setting up the overview yourself is hard, just copy the code below, paste it into a file named "fleet logi.xml" (note the extension), put it in your %My Documents%\EVE\Оvеrview\ folder (create if it doesn't already exist) and import it into your client.
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<eveOverview>
<profile name="fleet logi">
<groups>
<group id="832"/>
</groups>
<filteredStates>
<state state="44"/>
<state state="13"/>
<state state="18"/>
<state state="37"/>
<state state="36"/>
<state state="19"/>
<state state="17"/>
</filteredStates>
<ewarFilters/>
</profile>
</eveOverview>
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