As long as it's not press button, get cookie I have trouble thinking of how it could be easier. Anyways, I'll wait till I see the proposal before I get upset or anything.

enough to probe down grav sites in 0.0 with nothing but astrometrics II and no other scanning skills. :)

why? i fail to see how training more skills to make it easier strengthens my point of; scanning is already easy.

If they're revamping the Scanner UI as a first step to move away from local as a source of intel, then I'd prefer they go with that route first. Drone UI needs some serious love but if the scanner UI can replace local in any practical form, it's priority in my book.

i see you like to drag and drop little cubes. good show.

4 is the minimum sweetheart, 6 is overkill and any more than that and you clearly have NFI what you're doing.

except, that simply isn't true.

Seriously, how about you two stop taking up needless space on this thread with what is a pointless argument and just go shoot each other in the game?

The whole issue of scanning covers a lot of ground, and frankly changes ARE needed. I don't know too many people that don't think that scanning currently is an extremely tedious task, with little (if any) fun or excitement involved.

No, it's pretty spot on. Come on, high skills, expensive equipment and implants aside, once you do it a couple of dozen times the mystic is gone. After the umpteenth thousandth time you're ready to give your right testicle if only you didn't have to press f1 x number of times to launch your probes and then have to configure their arrangement by hand. Sure, there are techniques you develop over time of say a couple of months with higher level skills. Beyond that, there's nothing except tedium.

My thoughts exactly.
No hats?
No graphical improvements? What happened to tessellation?
WHERE is the pretty pink dress?

graphical improvements don't mean that much to those of us who have to run them at minimums anyways due to system resource limitations (though that will be changing in a few more months when I finally upgrade my piece of ****, woot!)

I can quote an exact process here.

1) find configuration online
2) launch to new location
3) move to safe spot
4) launch probes (enough for configuration)
5) move all to center (using shift drag)
6) arrange into configuration
7) center probes around blip (using shift drag)
8) size down probes (shift drag and alt drag) so they look smaller
9) scan
10) if less than 100% goto 7
11) get bacon

Not a lot of thinking in the above. It's not like the locations fight back or change the parameters as you scan. That's tedium. It's playing the same chess game over and over again when you know how your opponent will move. Maybe it has more than one move set, but once you've seen all the possible moves, it's the same each and every time. That's the very definition of tedium.

*gives hugs* it's ok, given time we will all someday be able to set some decent graphics for this :)

Would graphics improvements mean getting rid of the damn clouds in missions, anomalies, and exploration sites?

lol

Exact process:

1) launch probe, move to place x 8
2) scan
3) move
4) resize
5) scan
6) bookmark / warp to location

You scan faster with experience and dealing with doubles, rings and spheres requires at least some thinking. Good scanner finds a route in matter of minutes, bad scanner wastes 45 min to the same job. It's not just dependant on character skills. I've seen level IV scanners struggle.

D-scanner separates the good from the bad even more efficiently.

Both tools could use serious usability improvements, but simplifying the mechanics themselves is really difficult while still maintaining the importance of player skill.

*grins* I don't know how many I've run across personally who claim to know it all about probing and insist to me that all you ever need is just 4 probes