Live Map — complete guide

On the Capsuleers.App Live Map you pick a region from the start page, by searching its name or any system in it, or by choosing a tab. No account is needed. The start page searches regions and systems, remembers the regions you opened last and groups all of them in tabs: active now, empire, nullsec, NPC and special, wormhole. Every nullsec region shows the emblem of the alliance holding the most systems.

How to use it

1. 1Open the «Active now» tab for the regions with the most ships destroyed in the last hour.
2. 2Or browse by type of space: Empire, Nullsec, NPC & special, Wormhole.
3. 3Type a region or a system in the search field: a system opens its region already centred on it.

Yes: the Capsuleers Live Map keeps every system name visible even in large regions such as Fountain or Delve, drawing crowded labels smaller and dimmed instead of hiding them. Far from the map, in a big region, system names are never hidden: where two labels would overlap, the crowded one is drawn smaller and dimmed instead of disappearing, and every name has a halo so it stays readable over links and badges. Zoom in and the labels return to full size. Names sit below their node, like in the game client, with the security line right under the name as soon as there is room; nodes, logos and labels also grow when you zoom in and there is space.

How to use it

1. 1Open a large region such as Fountain or Delve: all the names are there from the first frame.
2. 2Zoom with the wheel or +/-: crowded names grow back to full size.
3. 3«Recenter map» frames the whole region again.

The Ansiblex bridges chip on the Capsuleers Live Map draws every known Ansiblex bridge as a dashed line coloured by owner alliance, on by default. The «Ansiblex bridges» chip, at the top left of the map, draws the real Ansiblex bridges, read server-side from a community source. Each bridge is a dashed line in the colour of its owner — the alliance holding the sovereignty of the system, the only one that can use it — with a slow dash flow and a ring on each end. The layer is on by default, and the chip remembers your choice.

How to use it

1. 1Open a nullsec region, such as Impass: the bridges are already drawn.
2. 2Use the «Ansiblex bridges» chip to hide or show them.
3. 3Open «Legend» to read the colour, the dash and the ring.

Tip If the community source does not answer, the legend tells you with «Bridge source not responding», or «Bridges: last known copy» when it shows the last copy it had.

Only the alliance holding the sovereignty of the system can jump through its Ansiblex, and the Capsuleers Live Map tooltip names it when you hover the bridge. Hover a bridge and the tooltip names both ends, with their security and region, and who can use it: «Usable by …» followed by the alliance and «(sov holder)». Only the alliance holding the sovereignty of the system can jump through it. A bridge in a system with no alliance sovereignty shows the owner as unknown.

How to use it

1. 1Hover the dashed line of a bridge.
2. 2Read the two ends and the «Usable by» line.
3. 3Hover the ring on an end for the system itself.

The Ansiblex zones chip on the Capsuleers Live Map rings each system with the zone of an Ansiblex jump there, from Zone 1 (green) to Zone 5 (red). The «Ansiblex zones» chip rings every system with the zone of an Ansiblex jump there, always measured from the capital of the alliance holding that system's sovereignty. The rings go from green (Zone 1) to red (Zone 5). Zoomed out you see only the ring, from mid zoom the Z tags appear. The violet ring marks an alliance capital. The legend shows how many systems of the region are in each zone.

How to use it

1. 1Turn on the «Ansiblex zones» chip: it is on by default.
2. 2Zoom in until the Z tags appear next to the rings.
3. 3Open «Legend»: the zone bands, the multipliers and the count of systems per zone.

Tip Systems without alliance sovereignty, or with an alliance that has not designated a capital, have no zone and are listed apart in the legend. For the cost of a jump by ship class, use the Ansiblex Zones tool.

Press Live feed on the Capsuleers Live Map and every kill in the region appears in the Region tab as it happens. With the feed on, every kill in the region arrives in the Region tab as it happens, straight from the eve-kill live stream: ship and victim, value, attackers and final blow, age. Rows over 1 billion ISK light up amber, over 10 billion red, and the strip above shows the rhythm of the last 30 minutes.

How to use it

1. 1Press «Live feed» in the tool header.
2. 2Watch the Region tab: new kills enter at the top.
3. 3Click the system of a row to show it on the map, or the row to open the killmail without leaving.

The Capsuleers Live Map marks a gate camp as a short coloured bar across the stargate link, on the side being held. A camp is a short bar across the stargate link, on the side of the gate being held, with the minutes since the last kill. Hovering it tells you how many pilots are still on the gate, how many have been seen in total and the most at once; clicking it opens the gate's detail in the System tab.

How to use it

1. 1Look for the coloured bars across the links: red is hot, amber is cooling down.
2. 2Hover a bar to read who holds the gate and how many pilots.
3. 3Right-click the system and «Avoid this system» when you plan a route.

Tip The same camps feed the Killboard's camp radar: the definition of «camp» is the same everywhere on the site.

The Capsuleers Live Map shows every sovereignty campaign of the region as a reticle around its system with a countdown, and lists them in the Region tab. Every sovereignty campaign of the region is a reticle around its system, with a countdown in the corner: grey when it is hours away, amber within the hour, red when it is running. The Region tab lists them, and picking one centres the map on its system.

How to use it

1. 1Open a nullsec region with campaigns.
2. 2Read the «Sovereignty campaigns» list in the Region tab.
3. 3Pick a campaign to centre the map; star the defender to follow its timers everywhere on the site.

Paste a D-Scan or Local into the Intel tab of the Capsuleers Live Map and press Analyze: the report is pinned to its system. The Intel tab reads a D-Scan or a Local you paste from the client and pins the result to its system on the map: ships by class, capitals and interdiction for a D-Scan, pilots with their danger level for a Local. A D-Scan recognises its own system from the celestials it sees.

How to use it

1. 1Open the Intel tab and paste the D-Scan window (or the Local list) — Ctrl+V works anywhere on the map.
2. 2Press «Analyze»: the report opens and its system gets a mark with the count.
3. 3«+ Local» or «+ D-Scan» adds the other half to the same report; «Share» creates a link.

Tip Scans stay in this browser tab only. If you are in a fleet, you can send them to your fleet commander with «Share with the fleet».

The Reports list in the Channels mode of the Capsuleers Live Map groups intel messages by system with their status: hostile, clear or request. Reports are grouped by system with their status — hostile, clear or request. The hostile count is the number stated in the message, or the sum of the ships recognised, or just «Hostiles». Ship types come with their icon and typos are forgiven («harbringer» is read as Harbinger); D-Scan and zKillboard links become chips, and every report shows how long ago it was written.

How to use it

1. 1Read the «Reports» list: the most recent system comes first, with the age as «x ago».
2. 2Open «Filters» (collapsed by default) to filter by distance, type or region, search a system, ship or pilot, and sort by most recent or nearest.
3. 3Choose the «Expiry» (10, 15, 20 or 30 min): after it a report leaves the map but stays in the list.
4. 4Turn on the sounds if you want them: «Sound for every report» is a short low tone, «Sound within alert range» is a quick triple beep.

Tip A line with no system we can recognise goes in «System not recognised»: press «Assign» and pick the system it meant.

Click a pilot named in a report of the Capsuleers Live Map Channels mode and a drawer opens with the pilot intel. When a message names a pilot, the name is recognised and shown with portrait and alliance logo. Click it and a side drawer opens with the pilot intel — kills, favourite ships, the danger at a glance — without leaving the map.

How to use it

1. 1Find the pilot chip in a report.
2. 2Click it: the drawer opens on the right, with the pilot page and killboard one click away.
3. 3Esc or the close button puts it away.

Tip The pilot intel is requested only when you click, and only for that character.

The Thera tab of the Capsuleers Live Map lists the nearest Thera and Turnur wormholes from your pilot or from any system, using EVE-Scout data. The Thera tab finds the nearest Thera and Turnur wormholes from the pilot you follow or from the system you pick, with the jumps to the entrance, both signatures (IN to enter, OUT to exit), the largest ship that fits and the hours left.

How to use it

1. 1Open the Thera tab.
2. 2Choose the starting point: your followed pilot, the selected system or another system.
3. 3Copy a signature with one tap, or press «Route» to draw the path on the map.

Tip Community data from EVE-Scout: a wormhole can close before its hours run out.

Signed in with EVE and with the Location service enabled, you pick a character in Trackable pilots on the Capsuleers Live Map and the map follows it. Signed in with EVE, the characters with the location service appear in «Trackable pilots». Pick one and the map reads their position every 15 seconds, marks their system with an orange diamond and switches region when they jump — the kill feed follows them too.

How to use it

1. 1Sign in with EVE and enable the «Location» service on the character, in your profile.
2. 2Open «Trackable pilots» in the map header and pick the character.
3. 3The map moves to their region and keeps following; pick them again to stop.

Tip The position keeps updating with the tab in the background, so the map is already in the right place when you come back.

Yes: the Capsuleers Live Map has a full-screen mode on desktop and a panel layout for portrait and landscape phones. On a phone the map takes the whole screen: in portrait the panel slides up from the bottom at three heights, in landscape it sits on the side and folds into a tab. On desktop the full-screen button hides the site header and gives all the height to the map. On a phone the controls at the top are compact: the buttons on the right sit in a column, the Ansiblex zones, bridges and skyhooks chips are just icons, and the legend always starts collapsed so it does not cover the map.

How to use it

1. 1On desktop press the full-screen button at the end of the tool header; Esc exits.
2. 2On a phone, drag the panel handle up or down, or tap it to change height.
3. 3Turn the phone sideways for the landscape layout with the side panel.
4. 4Open «Legend» only when you need it: on a phone it starts collapsed every time.