Freyya
Omni Galactic Resource Excavation Inc.
Tri-Star Galactic Industries
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Posted - 2013.05.21 23:46:00 -
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After testing on SiSi i can say i've got mixed feelings about this one.
On the one hand it's convenient to see how many sigs are in a system, on the other it's too easy to see how many sigs are in system. When this goes live you'll have alot of opportunity explorers seeing "Hey, there's a bunch of sigs here. I'll just click one, use the launch probes on result button and narrow it down 1/2 times to get a full hit."
Exploration as it is right now represents a sort of way of living. You actively seek out sigs, drop probes and scan it down by hand. (never was a big fan of dropping 8 probes and doing it easy mode, 4 probes 4 the win, maybe 5 to get that last %  )
Exploration as it will become is all based on "Is my sensor overlay active? Cool then i can see if i can make some easy enough isk." It also makes it alot easier for those seeking explorers for pretty explosions. There's a sig, there's one and there's one and there and there, directional scan, hey a ship and boom, drop combat probes and get a hit in one maybe 2 go's. Experienced combat probers can do this already with their developed player skills. Now any simpleton with combat probes fitted can do it. Good for PvP and explosions, bad for those who spent alot of time experimenting and honing their feel and skills for the soon to be obsolete specialisation of combat probing.
All in all it's probing made for the lazy. I've scanned down more sites in so much less time it seemed like not a single sig was even difficult to begin with. Shame really.
As for the overlay itself:
Sites do not get removed from view once completed or even scanned down to 100%.
The pixelated mess that surrounds a result remains in space eventhough you've warped to a different location from when the result popped up after coming into a new system. location of the result changed, the pixel blob remains in the same relative camera position as when you first saw the result pop up in the overlay. Not a fan of the Pixel blob in my screen.
I'd have put something of a "ping" bubble ever growing as a scanner instead of the slow radarlike sweep of a system as it is right now. Kinda looks....low tech and quickly crammed together for ease. |