I am going to give my feedback.

Compared to many and possibly most of the players who come here i am probably a noob, but i play EVE for 2 years and a half and i consider that quite some time.
My main activity is Exploration.
I have three accounts and i have invested much time ( and lets face it, money ) in this game and community because i truely enjoyed it... untill now.

What do i think of this patch? I have no words.
I am seriously considering dropping my subscriptions. Its not a rage quit, its simply not enjoying the game anymore.
And i will explain why.

There are many things that can be done in EVE, the way we are will influence the path we choose in EVE.

Only a small group chooses exploration and there is a reason for that.

This patch takes all the reasons away. The miners and ratters and mission runners will become "explorers" and the real explorers will find another way to enjoy the game... or quit.

Seriously, you should not change exploration so much without consulting explorers... but i guess you went to consult who is not an explorer...
So now you have a semi-automatic system to scan.... i hate it...
I have my own techniques... in a bit over two years i have over 400 units of overseer personal effects from 3/10 complexes and over 300 from 4/10 complexes.
I am an explorer or was untill now.

I have my own techniques, and those techniques i developed with experience and effort, those give me an advantage.
I enter a system and i dont know if there is anything good in it.
I start probing, its a hit and miss, the thrill of finding or not. the run to find it before others come in and find it as well.

Now?
Now you enter the system and see everything, you even see where the signature is located within the system before launching one probe.
awesome!!! thats how easy it gets now!
What about the probes?
Semi-automatic, press launch, they all go out and get linked! awesome!!!

so what makes the difference now? just skills, just put some days on the side to train some skills and you are good to go.

Now mission runners can do exploration afkish as they do with the missions...

It never ocurred to you that real explorers actually like to move the probes manually? that they actually enjoy the fact that its hard? and feel more rewarded from finding something that its hard to find?
Did you ask any explorer who has ran over 700 scanned complexes in two years if he wanted the probes to be released that way? and to be linked? and everythign else?

For me, the game is ruined, but i guess thats alright, i only have three accounts... those can be replaced with three new players...

For the record, i am not one of those guys who always come here complain, quite the opposite, i have never complained about any patch. If there is a bug i report and thats it.

Now?... now i hardly log into EVE... i have a few more days untill my subscriptions expire but really... i find no reasons to log.

Best wishes to everyone.

Fon