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Tips for Big Battles and TIDI
Tips for reducing lag:
- Turn on potato mode: ESC → Display & Graphics → Optimize Settings → Optimize Settings for Performance
- Turn off Sound: ESC → Audio → Audio Enabled off
- Turn off Chat logging: ESC → Chat → Log Chat to File off
- Minimize Local Chat window
- Turn off or reduce brackets. This is a bit more complicated, turning off brackets completely can be done with Alt-Shift-Z but that reduces your spacial awareness a lot. Modifying brackets is a subject of a whole guide of it's own but one easy thing to do if you are using the Z-S overview pack is to select a bracket without drones. Open Overview settings → Overview Tabs → Bracket Preset and set * Brackets Combat/Targets/Friendly (-Dro) to your main combat tab. If you ever need to see drone brackets during a fight you can use Alt-Z to toggle between the showing All Brackets and the selected Bracket Preset.
Tips for coping with lag:
- Turn on Outstanding Calls display: Shift-Ctrl-Alt-M → Outstanding Calls. This will display all orders you have given to your ship (like activating modules and locking things) that not yet been processed by the server. If you see a command do to something listed here you do not need to give that command again as it is already queued up for execution.
- Whenever possible use Shortcuts to do things like activating modules, click once and then wait a bit to see if they show up in the Outstanding Calls window.
- Make sure you have Corporation and/or Alliance column on your overview (Open Overview Settings → Columms). If a neutral ship or fighter shows up with this colon empty it is bugged and is most likely a friendly ship/fighter, do NOT shoot it unless it's been broadcasted by the FC.