My first impression:

I'm confused to how the new changes and the old directional scanner relate. The old directional scanner could be set to 14au and 360 degrees and scanned manually. I was assuming that the new sensor overlay was just a graphical adaption to the old directional overlay, but from playing around with it its confusing.

-The new sensor overlay has infinite range whereas the old directional has just 14au range right?
-When I 'turn on' the sensor overlay its auto-updating correct? Doesn't seem like it on the actual signiture list on the directional -scan... or is the sensor overlay more a reflection of the old scanning system, not the directional scan?
- Does it make sense for these to be seperated?... why the seperation of the two types of scans? One scans for anoms and the others ships, but realistically, why can't a scan just be a scan? Its weird that the scanner is autoupdated and the directional scan is still manual...

yk

if you see what is out there almost instantly, how are you still justified in calling it 'the great unknown'? i'm not trolling, i'm serious. seeing what's going on in the system after a brief scan takes the uncanny feeling of uncertainty you used to have and puts it in a little can labeled 'exploration(lol)'.

Not completely. While I haven't done much testing on it as of yet. I have been able to assume that 20% str sigs are Combat, 10% str are profession sites, and >5% str are gas. So after some time it will allow players to know with a great certainty what type of site it is off of the overlay. However like I said I haven't really been monitoring or done much testing, so I could be off.

Ok, I'll asume that th DS is a DSP. I don't agree that you should know what type of sig is without core probes or combats. It makes things easier. I dont like it as it screw a couple of mechanics in wspace. With the rest I
dont have an issue.

Its like serving your meal already digested.

Okay... I read your whole response, and I am not against this feature...i want you first and foremost to realize and recognize that. But in your response you say exactly what I am saying is wrong with this feature....

Not EVERYONE wants to do this.....not EVERYONE wants to go and play in anoms and other things. In fact there are many of us who will never ever use this, even though I think its top notch and provides others with some interesting game play.

But your solution is - we want to open a permanent window - why? Did someone ask for this? Did your paying public tear down the walls and say "boy do we need this feature added to EvE!"

I am not gonna rage and quit or any of that I do love this terrible game that we play......I just think this is daft, it will probably be the # 1 requested change after the release. Sometimes you want to go out scanning and you want to have this active. Other times I must admit its just a bunch of fluff that clutters the screen and adds zero value to game play.

I have added several prior posts on this subject - and unless you are in a ship that you actual can use to go and clear anoms or care about the scanned down sites i have no idea why i would need or use this - my freighter is not headed into an anom any time soon, nor a JF or my macks or almost any industrial for that matter and when traveling the wastes of null and low sec the last thing i give a flying about is anoms when im trying to get the hell out of a gate camp or bubble.

Sorry but you ask for our feedback and sometimes its not going to be what you want to hear.

~Regan~

I'm with this guy.

I spend 99% of my time in wormholes, and scan for most of that time. It's never sat well with me that you could discard all but a handful of signatures in a system simply by dropping a DSP and referring to a lookup table (or memory given enough time).

This is probably an unpopular point of view because I can accept that there will be people who were reliant on signature sizes and finding needles in haystacks a lot faster than was ever intended, but if this change brings back some of the mystery in wormholes, even if it involves spending a little more time, then it'll be for the greater good imo.

No answere to this one yet?

Meh. Nothing really changes on the farming front for flesh and blood players. The biggest cherry picking impact will be for scanning from non-bonused ships/ those with low skills (since increased probe strength increases the spread between bands) and the constant monitoring of large systems.

Treasure hunters will just use a combat probe or split core probes up..... farming isn't going anywhere