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Sinooko
The Night Wardens
Viro Mors Non Est
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Posted - 2011.10.25 15:37:00 -
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I live in WH space and I would like to set my D-Scan to auto-scan every 5 seconds and display results to overview. As it is tapping that button over and over is very tedious and is taking life from my poor mouse and the scanner window is taking up more of my screen's real estate than I can honestly spare. |
Sinooko
The Night Wardens
Viro Mors Non Est
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Posted - 2011.10.26 03:09:00 -
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People are assuming that I DON'T hit the scan button literally every 5 seconds. Many people in my corp have a habit of hitting that scan button religiously.
My corp uses tags to to verify that they are corporate ships as well.
I have had people sneak up on me because wormholes often appear out of range of D-Scan, therefore I have no idea that any danger has become present until it de-cloaks. It is also possible to pop through a wormhole and re-cloack before you pop up on a D-Scan. It's a roll of the dice.
My proposal not the same as local which warns you the moment someone hits system. I'm not asking for anything more advanced other than the auto refresh to save my precious laser mouse, and the option to load the info to overview so i can see my ship and it's epic graphics while I fly it instead of the scan window.
Besides any nitwit can take advantage of lazy pilots by changing the the name of their ship.
My proposal still requires vigilance and intelligence, just less clicky, clicky. |
Sinooko
The Night Wardens
Viro Mors Non Est
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Posted - 2011.10.26 19:05:00 -
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Kazia Fey wrote:Get yourself a decent gaming keyboard with macro keys.
PROBLEM BLAPPED.
You can assign that little scan button to a key!?
How!? |
Sinooko
The Night Wardens
Viro Mors Non Est
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Posted - 2011.12.03 07:47:00 -
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Dread Barista wrote:If whoever is hunting you actually belongs in a wh, your d-scan probably won't matter a whole lot anyway. I run sites in a loki with the probing subsystem in, means combat scanners can cover the entire system, just ignore all signatures of your buddies etc, click the scan button every time the last one finishes when something new appears run away and investigate.
As far as the of it being a repetitive task, computers are made for repetitive tasks, let the computer do it.... Well what's mining? or missioning, or ratting, or grinding sleeper sites? If your d-scan told you how much damage it did to the interstellar medium each time you clicked would that make it fun?
Even my artillery cycles... |
Sinooko
The Night Wardens
Viro Mors Non Est
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Posted - 2011.12.09 05:40:00 -
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Ingvar Angst wrote:Xindi Kraid wrote:We're nor asking for the d-scan to inform us there is a new object or highlight it or anything like that. All we want is that scan button to click itself. It should remain up to us to actually look at the d-scan window and be vigilant for new contacts. If you were away from your computer or didn't. realize a new contact showed up, then it sucks to be you.
Also d-scan is by no means a guarantee of safety. As others have pointed out, Some systems are larger than d-scan range and 5 seconds is enough to pop through a wormhole and cloak. You still don't. always know someone is coming.
I should also mention that I do not agree with making d-scan contacts show up in the overview, however. I also don't need any more info on the d-scan. If someone is clever enough to pick up on a corp tagging their ships and copy it to fly under a false tag, props to them. You want to lag out the servers for one thing. Auto-click on dscan would send thousands upon thousands more calls to the servers then now. That would not end well. Seriously, it's not to hard to click and see what's there. A ten second auto-click would suck, it's too slow. A faster auto-click would suck... I may not want to click right away if I see something, and I want that information to stay intact until I do. You really introduce more potential problems than it would be worth.
I'm already sending thousands of scan queries an hour and so are most of the people in my corp. |
Sinooko
The Night Wardens
Viro Mors Non Est
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Posted - 2011.12.09 18:34:00 -
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Sassums wrote:If you live in WH space, you know you have to use your D-Scan and scan as frequently as you can.
There have been countless instances where someone goes afk to gas mine or otherwise not pay attention and they get jumped.
Some players are good enough to D-Scan you down to the planet you are near, drop probes, lock you, pull them back in, all within 30 seconds.
What will D-Scan automatically do for you? Other than add more stress on the servers?
Not to mention it still won't save you if the baddies happened to scan down your hole, all the sites in it, and then wait for someone to venture out. They warp and you are done.
-1 for this.
In 30 seconds I would have spotted your probes at least 6 times and your ship possibly once. |
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