New default overview in testing

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Intrepid capsuleers!

The overview window is the most important tool at your disposal in EVE Online. It's used for orientation, traveling, fighting, resource gathering... everything you do in space. Customizing the overview to suit a capsuleer’s needs is important but can be daunting for new players. We are therefore changing the default overview for new players to make it more useful and to make the transition to using custom overview packs easier. This will be achieved by making new capsuleers familiar with the more advanced use of the overview features employed by corporations and alliances they might end up joining.

The new default overview is available now on the Singularity test server. We invite you to share your feedback on the EVE Forums.

The default overview currently provided satisfies the basic needs of new players, but the real power of the overview lies in the ability to customize it and to import settings shared by other, more experienced players. Creating good custom settings for the overview is a skill that requires time and practice, so it is quite popular to use overview packs shared and recommended by the EVE community. In addition, when pilots are flying together, a shared and standardized overview can make fleets more effective and enjoyable.

There are a few popular overview packs that were looked at for inspiration on how to improve the default overview. The main feature of the community overview packs that we wanted to surface in the new default overview is the usage of predefined groups of presets matching a specific tab, allowing capsuleers to quickly adjust the overview to the situation at hand.

Before going into the details of the changes, it's worth stating that the release of the new default