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Setting up your overview is compulsory for uni fleets. It is very important to have your overview set up properly. Your overview presets are your eyes in Eve Online.  

In Eve Online, the overview is the only practical way to organize and view items in space. It is a customizable list of interactive items. It is one of the most important parts of Eve's interface, and will help you in PvP, missions, mining, traveling - practically every activity in Eve requires use of the overview. It is vitally important that you set up your overview in a way that is not confusing, and will allow you to easily see whatever you want to see at any given time. The consequences of not setting up your overview properly could range from not being able to see a war target and subsequently getting destroyed, to firing on your own ally because he appeared as a hostile, to being destroyed by NPC pirates that didn’t even show up on your screen.  

Before you even touch the overview itself, however, you should organize the rest of your interface. Eve is a game of communication and numbers - your screen layout should reflect this.  

The following section will tell you how to set up your overview for Eve University fleets. Please follow the instructions carefully.  

You have now set up all your general overview settings. It is a good idea to now save a default Eve University overview.  - we’ll move onto setting up individual presets now.  

Eve isn’t a very system-intensive game, and some people have computers that can easily handle the game on max settings. If your system can handle it, you can select '''show all brackets''' in the overview options for each tab. This will let you see friendly and hostile ship brackets on the field as well as neutrals and drones. Having all brackets turned on can help you identify an on-grid fleetmate to use as a warp-in. Many players fly with all brackets turned on, and it is recommended to do so if your system can handle it. Zooming out the camera with all brackets turned on will give you a good view of what's happening on the battlefield.  

The Tag feature allows you to assign a number or letter to individual ships or objects in space which will be visible in the Tag column of the overview. The tag will remain assigned to the object until it is destroyed, you dock in a station, or enter a jump gate. This is useful for marking trigger ships during missions, marking trigger ships and kill order in wormhole sleeper sites, prioritizing PvP targets, marking NPC convoy ships for attack (see [http://www.eve-wiki.net/index.php?title=Guide:Attacking_Convoys Eve Wiki Attacking Convoys Guide] for more details), or any other activity for which you may need to quickly identify specifics objects for a fleet. Only a fleet member in a command position can mark tags.  

Note that a corporation which is a member of an alliance cannot be viewed by itself; you have to search for the alliance. The "Eve University" corporation is a member of the "Ivy League" alliance.  

The XML file only has part of the necessary configuration contained within it. This is problematic if you wish to replicate your overview setup between two computers, or two Eve instances on the same computer, because you have to do a lot of manual configuration after the XML file import anyway.  Specifically, the Appearance and Column tabs are not exported when you export your overview settings.