Nox Arnoux
Aperture Harmonics
K162
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Posted - 2013.05.08 23:01:00 -
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You've done a great job making the scanning system simpler by automating a lot of the things that had to be done manually before. Fair enough, maybe it's for the better that scanning becomes more intuitive than its current form. However the way you're implementing it is all kinds of awful.
1. Launching 7 probes at once into space in a wormhole is basically the same as waving your arms in the air screaming "HEY EVERYONE, I'M HERE! PAY ATTENTION TO ME DAMN IT!". While it's convenient for the casual scanner, hunters with subtlety will now die a painful death.
2. Automatically resizing and repositioning the probes may be all good and fun for locking down a single signature, it severely hinders our ability to cover the scan areas that WE WANT TO COVER. For example, we don't want or need the probes to be in their spread formation the second we hit launch... we want them clumped together, so we can use them to evaluate signature strengths without flinging our probes out to every corner of the system for people to dscan. Not to mention, we want to make our own probe formations without having to first drag them back into place.
3. Removing that 8th probe effectively dismantles many of the multi-sig probing layouts that veteran scanners have relied upon. I don't know whose call it was that 7 probes is the way to go, or why it was even necessary to take the 8th probe out, but they are wrong, and they have now angered the bitter vets.
I have no problem with making the system slightly easier to use for beginners, but those neat little automated features you've added that are supposed to be crutches for the new explorer are severe hindrances to the seasoned veteran. So I propose the following:
1. Make the scanning interface more customizable. A simple check box that disables many of these beginner friendly features would suffice. Give us the option to launch the probes 1 at a time if we choose, as well as the option to not have a computer automate our probe placements. This can't be rocket science to implement.
2. We need that 8th probe back. This is not a trivial matter. You've removed something that is critical to the level of depth scanning has evolved into.
3. Make the scan results copy/pastable. Otherwise the 3rd party tools we've developed over the years will be made completely obsolete. |