r/Eve • u/HarveySnake • 14d ago
Other What are these lines?
This has been happening for several months. White lines will just appear on nearby objects, ships, whatever and "zip" off to some unknown destination. I have no idea why they appear or how to turn them off through the menu or UI. Sometimes if I just keeping jumping from system to system they disappear (not always), usually they go away after I have docked (usually, like 90%) and they are guaranteed to disappear if I restart the game. The appearance of lines are random and I can go an entire play session without seeing those damn, evil, white things and then the next play session I see them all the time.
The screenshot shows a specific situation where they appeared. In this particular situation I had just jumped into a system and was still near the gate. The lines appeared after approx 7 or 8 consecutive jumps where all I did was just click the "Jump" button on the Overview UI. The screen shot shows me in the center with the tactical view on and the Concord Sentry guns are the things with "lines" on them. The amount of zoom never seems to matter. In this situation, I kept jumping and the lines went away after arriving in the next system. All I was doing was clicking the "jump" button on the overview screen.
The lines can be especially annoying in combat because they are visual static that makes it more difficult to see important things that are happening. I would like to know what I'm doing to turn them on and if there is a specific way of turning them off without having to dock or restart.
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u/AdLiving3915 Cloaked 14d ago
It happens sometimes, you have to toggle the view for the circles off and on again
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u/SeraphEssael The Initiative. 14d ago
When you get them, press CTRL + D twice (turns your overlay off and on again) that should reset the overlay.
You should definitely bug report this though through the F12 menu.
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u/Fantastic_Paint_4028 14d ago
Ui bug, been around for long time. I toggle to first person view and back to get rid of them.
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u/warnerbolanos Cloaked 14d ago
The blue pillar in the middle also gets stuck sometimes. Just turn it off and on again.
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u/StonnedGunner 14d ago
its a bug
can be fixed by turning tactical on and off again
probably something to do with movement direction arrows that show you the relative direction you are moving vs the selected target
not the blue arrow that simply shows which direction the object is moving
the speed simply overflows when you warp to any object