(...) Having to spin not only in a circle, but also upwards and downwards is really irritating.

Hey everyone,

The first is the impact on wormhole intel. Obviously this is a change to the status quo, but it's still not obviously a particularly destructive one. The intel that this system provides can already be obtained by launching a bunch of probes and regularly mashing "scan", and we're not huge fans of systems that require tedious and repetitive manual busy work (yes, the d-scanner, we know), so on the face of it we regard this as a straight-up improvement. We are of course waiting to see how this pans out in practice, and if it ends up making wormhole space materially less interesting, we'll make changes. We'd like to give the more creative members of the community the chance to play around with it in a live environment before jumping the gun, though.

(...) to make exploration possibilities more naturally visible to players of all ages.

Our goal, rather, is to tune and target the jump-in scan so that it becomes a natural part of the jump sequence, rather than some outlandish imposition. We're going to be evaluating its intrusiveness on an ongoing basis both prior to and after release, to try and ensure that we hit that goal.

(Frellicus is also trying to find time to make the always-on sweep more intermittent, but it's not clear yet whether that'll make it in prior to release.)

Finally, there's obviously a lot of other things that seem like reasonable fits to show up in the overlay (bookmarks, mission locations, the directional scanner...), and we have sketch plans for various extensions to the feature in the future that may or may not see the light of day. If it gets expanded significantly we may even need to invest in some more robust filtering options.