Tritanium Amaranth
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Posted - 2013.05.10 20:02:00 -
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So, played around a bit with these this afternoon.
1) Please allow us to select what formation is the default for our probes, specifically when launching the probes by activating the probe launcher module.
2) Putting all the probes defaulted to centered at the sun is... okay if you're just kinda derping along scanning for sigs, but severely non-optimal for combat scanning. Please consider defaulting their position to your ship's current position?
3) The new interface showing sigs in space is pretty, but ultimately feels useless and I'd prefer to turn it off for a number of reasons:
- It's not clear from the current implementation that CCP realized that scouts spend more time in the solar system map than the in-space view.
- Therefore, making effective use of this information requires you to constantly flip back between the in-space view and the solar system map, at least as many times as the number of signatures you're scanning down.
- Finally, to generate a list of signatures, you still have to either drop probes and scan at max range, or (for anomalies) use the ship scanner just as before. (And after I do this, now the solar system map view is populated, too, which is the view I'm actually using!) So I really haven't saved any time or number of UI interactions to get the same level of information.
In conclusion, a couple use cases have been made much easier, to the detriment of all the nuance that was there before.
- Scanning down sites to run is much quicker and more painless. - Combat scanning down ~gank targets~ is now much quicker. - Advanced combat scanning for non-gank PVP is much more difficult/painful * Specifically, using multiple probe formations, including formations where mixes of core and combat probes are used * Manipulating a target's perception of where you are or what you're doing by controlling the types and numbers of probes he sees on D-SCAN and their ranges - Scanning down and organizing large numbers of signatures is significantly more annoying * Can't cut and paste signature lists, although this may be fixed * The information previously provided by Deep Space Probes with regard to sites is now only present in the new UI, so the cut+paste fix won't restore this information to the list fully
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