Sounds interesting and I really like the theme.

However if I'd have to pick either drone UI or scanner UI from the two of my most used specific UIs, I'd choose drone UI for revamping.

Dave, trust me, with out the Astro's at Level IV, you are not seeing everything there is to scan down.

You are indeed getting only the easy things.

I know because "I Was There".

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.

does astro V change how scanning works?

because move cube, press scan, seems to be working with my current skills. does it magically change at astro V?

At Astro III you should see everything. At Astros IV you should finally resolve everything 100% even if at .25 AU

(I said nothing of Level V, btw).

The new "Everyone's a Winner" system!

so it's still as easy as "drag cube, click scan".
thought so.

Yes, but you are talking about easy mechanics. I'm talking about finding the non-easy sites to find. That's hard till skilled and modded up. Plus being able even to open Sleepers. Gotta have Salvaging IV, and I believe V to open some of them. And training Codebreaking and Salvaging. If one is going this route in the game at all, they should have those and more at IV eventually.

oh you mean making it easier as in "taking less time to train" i was thinking of it in the context of "doing stuff".

i totally agree, don't make it take less time to train, that serves no purpose.

Yay.

Lets move on......next.......

Will there be flying mounts?!!

/hides

That said, I wouldn't mind if exploration became a part of all ships with certain ships being better at it since a lot of the stuff I'm finding with exploration I'm not going to do with a dedicated exploration ship. So if I'm wondering around looking for stuff and I come across a DED complex and my ship is 10 jumps away I'll probably just skip it and move on. There's definitely room for improvement here.

Sounds great! The main point for me is:

"Continued development towards raising accessibility without removing functionality will bring dozens of changes to player-owned starbases"

I look forward to seeing what well needed and long-awaited changes will be made to the POS system!
Also, is this new discovery scanner likely to reveal new things in wormhole space as well??

THE LITTLE THINGS

Continued development towards raising accessibility without removing functionality will bring dozens of changes to player-owned starbases, game UI and beyond.

The best way to see the future is by standing on the shoulders of the past.

So... when do we get to play with this stuff on the test server(s)?

The current probing mechanics are complex if that is what you are referring too. They take quite a lot of skill and knowledge to effectively master. Obviously finding anomolies is really simple though. I just hope they don't dumb down the probing mechanics.

i'm a bit shocked by this. with all the things wrong with the game they are now going to break exploration, which is currently working nicely aside from the stupid NPC AI which annihilates drones. i hate to be an old cynic but my money is on them dumbing down exploration and ruining the current system by replacing it with a half-assed version that won't work and will be left unfinished. If they introduce any new scanning or exploration skills i will mega rage - i'm starting to get sick of skills just for the sake of it.

Eve was starting to shape up nicely, low sec is great, the ship rebalancing is great, bots are getting banned. mining barges are good, bounties are fun, wormholes are always good, exploration is really nice. If they put a big effort into fixing null we would be looking at a golden age of Eve. Now I'm a little worried, how much longer can the game operate with null sec the way it currently is, or old systems such as incursions, sov, drone ui, poses, walking in stations, aurum, missions, left to rot half finished?

i'm a bit shocked by this. with all the things wrong with the game they are now going to break exploration, which is currently working nicely aside from the stupid NPC AI which annihilates drones. i hate to be an old cynic but my money is on them dumbing down exploration and ruining the current system by replacing it with a half-assed version that won't work and will be left unfinished. If they introduce any new scanning or exploration skills i will mega rage - i'm starting to get sick of skills just for the sake of it.

Eve was starting to shape up nicely, low sec is great, the ship rebalancing is great, bots are getting banned. mining barges are good, bounties are fun, wormholes are always good, exploration is really nice. If they put a big effort into fixing null we would be looking at a golden age of Eve. Now I'm a little worried, how much longer can the game operate with null sec the way it currently is, or old systems such as incursions, sov, drone ui, poses, walking in stations, aurum, missions, left to rot half finished?

If one of use give the next theme name dose he. or she gain anything?


here was my idea on the forum when you were picking names....

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2495433#post2495433


ccp use my theme name idea hehehe..

The last exploration focused expansion was awesome.