Mariner6
Agony Unleashed
Agony Empire
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Posted - 2013.05.15 16:11:00 -
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After some testing today and after a bunch of trips down the electrified intestines of doom (the new jump scene)
1. I'm at a gate and dropped pinpoint probes. I can see my probes in space around me but on the map they are already centered at the sun. I don't want them centered there, if I had I would have dropped them there. Sometimes for PvP sake I need to drop probes where I'm at and quickly be ready to scan where I am (getting ready for incoming punt for a hostile fleet in warp to me but likely to land at a tac.) Now I have to move the probes back to me on the map. Bottom line the probes in the solar system map should show up where you deployed them from.
2. The whole scan thing replacing the DSP:
A) needs to populate the system scanner. Swinging the camera around to find where the various sigs and anoms is annoying, particularly as often you'll be having to avoid a camp or what not. The list the DSP provided was much more user friendly than these big diamonds in the sky. And I still have to hit the other scanner to get the list of anoms so I can do my dscan thing to find which one the null bear is in. So the windshield wiper provided me with little that was helpful. (particularly when dscan-ing using range reduction to narrow target location.
B) Ok, since I don't have a list I need to leave the thing running but having that big pixel windshield wiper thing running is distracting as hell, particularly while having to do other things in space. Fine have the windshield wiper run once but if you select to leave the overlay on just have the sigs show up in space without any further windshield wiper effects.
C) It doesn't show ships or structures! So this scanner is less useful than my DSP. A whole flight of Combat probes are too slow and likely to scare off the prey. I want to drop the DSP well away from 14 AU and get a good picture. DSP did the trick. Can't sort by distance for quick D-scan trick combined with DSP to get on a target quickly. Very sad.
3. I can't figure out how to put multiples of 4 probes out now. I can't launch 8 or singles? So I used to be able to have 4 combats out at very large covering most of system or DSPs(usually DSP's). But off grid/scan of most things. But I also had a set of 4 combats ready in tight formation that I could drop in close (turning off one set and switching to the others.) Can't do that now well since I have a 3-4 thing going that is very awkward. Moving and adjusting sets is really awkward now. Not sure if I'm just fat fingering this as I'm used to shift to size probes strength and alt for tighten/loosen the pack.
4. Once the windshield wiper shows me the sig, and I've scanned it down with probes at 100%, maybe the bracket in space should turn green too?
Overall, really don't see the scanner as a good replacement for the DSP, its distracting and the information if provides is not as consumable as the spread sheet. |