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There are also several other advantages of using or releasing overview packs. One worth mentioning is that some overview packs were designed with a lot of careful considerations and many standards applied. This is especially important in some corporations, big alliances or coallitions. For instance, many of the overview packs may release set X profiles which is used on important scenarios and in turn used by many members of certain organizations; there are also the case of standardization across these profiles, while building your own overview can be good or better on some cases, using the same overview pack across many players at once enables you to follow and issue commands or intel with the knowledge that the other person who listen or giving those intel actually have the same overview setup as yours.

{{expansion past |With the "Hyperion" release .xml is no longer the format in which Overviews are exported and imported. [http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/sharing-is-caring/ CCP] for the time being will continue to let it be possible to import old .xml files, but that is something they want to remove so we encourage you to re-export those settings in a .yaml file. '''Note:'''The YAML import/export works as intended across different machines and clients where the XML import/export had issues.

~~Please don't ask, it's never going to happen. Okay, so some have decided to provide exported .xml files for import. There are some things you should be aware of with .xml file importing.~~

'''Only using the export/import feature can lead you to shoot friendly pilots and other complications. Always go through the entire overview setup process when configuring a new account or a new computer.'''

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.}}

== Commonly Known & Used Overview Packs ==

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 There are also several other advantages of using or releasing overview packs. One worth mentioning is that some overview packs were designed with a lot of careful considerations and many standards applied. This is especially important in some corporations, big alliances or coallitions. For instance, many of the overview packs may release set X profiles which is used on important scenarios and in turn used by many members of certain organizations; there are also the case of standardization across these profiles, while building your own overview can be good or better on some cases, using the same overview pack across many players at once enables you to follow and issue commands or intel with the knowledge that the other person who listen or giving those intel actually have the same overview setup as yours.
-{{expansion past |With the "Hyperion" release .xml is no longer the format in which Overviews are exported and imported.  [http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/sharing-is-caring/ CCP] for the time being will continue to let it be possible to import old .xml files, but that is something they want to remove so we encourage you to re-export those settings in a .yaml file.  '''Note:'''The YAML import/export works as intended across different machines and clients where the XML import/export had issues.
-Please don't ask, it's never going to happen.  Okay, so some have decided to provide exported .xml files for import.  There are some things you should be aware of with .xml file importing.
-'''Only using the export/import feature can lead you to shoot friendly pilots and other complications. Always go through the entire overview setup process when configuring a new account or a new computer.'''
-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.}}
 == Commonly Known & Used Overview Packs ==