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Posted - 2009.03.16 04:28:00 -
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Originally by: War Minx
Originally by: Night Doc Exploration:
Fingers hurt badly when scanning... too many clicks to move them around.
we really need a way to move all the probes at the same time. As holding shift is nice. Please, could you make the CTRL + axis to move all the probes toward the center point of all of the deployed probes?
I'm not sure if this is the answer but christ on a pony the new scanning system leaves a lot to be desired. With the old ship scanning system I could lock down a ship inside of 2 minutes, maybe less, and be on top of him scrambling him. This new system was sold to us as intuitive (it's anything but) and possibly faster (it isn't by a long shot). To say I hate it is an understatement. I know how it works, I've read all the faqs, tutorials and videos. It's still clunky and most important slow by comparison.
It does has some very nice features. I love the single probe system but hate having to resize every probe manually via dragging or right click menu. It would be nice to highlight all probes on the list and set AU size there one time instead of 3 or 4 times.
I love the mobile probe system but trying to move a 3d object on a 2d screen makes for some interesting shenanigans. If I have a red\yellow\green dot result I'd love to be able to highlight it, center my probes on it then move them around manually just to tweak things a bit instead of having to resize, hack around trying to replace them then repeating.
Also, how many times are we expected to resize the spheres? The combat scan probes alone have 8 different AU settings. While I know I can skip through some of them it is, again, time consuming and non intuitive.
I don't want an "i win" button. Not at all. I like the fact that scanning is a bit more active these days but with that said I just want the ability to scan down ships as quickly as I used to again. Several minutes of tweaking and prodding during PvP is makes this system extremely frustrating as a covert ops pilot who was on top of his game prior to this patch.
By the way, don't tell me I haven't given this a chance. I've spent every night since the patch practicing to see if it is just me. I tried to streamline this and make it work and all I ended up with is a headache.
Once you get used to it, the new scanning system is awesome. It can be faster if you get it setup properly. The real difference is effort and thought rather than the clumsy system before offered. You actually have to dedicate yourself to scanning now, it's not just a haphazard effort like before.
The only complaint i have now is that the probe times need to be increased to 3 hours rather than one. True Probers are out there for far longer than an hour and it can be a pain to reset probes especially in high lag combat situations. 3 hours would still do an effective job of trash cleaning so the server doesn't get bogged down while benefitting probers greatly
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