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Caldari 5
D.I.L.L.I.G.A.F. S.A.S
Northern Associates.
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Posted - 2014.02.26 05:28:00 -
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+1 for AU optionally input |
Mario Putzo
Welping and Dunking.
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Posted - 2014.02.26 05:40:00 -
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1 Astronomical Unit =
149 597 871 kilometers
Open up the ingame calculator and do math its not hard guys the tools are already there!
Honestly though...how this hasn't been an option since day 1 is kinda crazy.
I would like to see Short Scan/Long scan toggle as well. |
Alvatore DiMarco
Capricious Endeavours Ltd
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Posted - 2014.02.26 05:57:00 -
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CCP Karkur was actually asked about this directly during a stream. She more or less said "I'd rather see a whole new DScan tool created than to keep patching and tweaking the old one." |
Sable Moran
Moran Light Industries
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Posted - 2014.02.26 08:44:00 -
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I believe this thread needs another +1
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Samillian
Angry Mustellid
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Posted - 2014.02.26 08:50:00 -
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Should have been done years ago.
+1
NBSI shall be the whole of the Law |
Sublime Rage
Righteous Immortal Pew
Darwins Lemmings
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Posted - 2014.02.26 09:10:00 -
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+1 |
Jinn Aideron
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Posted - 2014.02.26 14:25:00 -
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Alvatore DiMarco wrote:CCP Karkur was actually asked about this directly during a stream. She more or less said "I'd rather see a whole new DScan tool created than to keep patching and tweaking the old one."
I share her sentiment.
But I also, personally, fell into the trap of postponing quality of life improvements into 'the next big thing'. The latter suffering delays and feature creep until you eventually look back and say to yourself, "Man, I should've added that one small thing right away."
A very small change, outright requested, improving use of a frequented and consequential game mechanic for 40,000 players if only for 6 months to come? That's worth an hour wrangling the code in my books.  And maybe even the three additional to jump through attached organizational hoops.
For me, the allure is in a very small change, and a large number of people affected by its positive fallout.
Small because all the existing can stay in place! The underlying scan code can still exclusively use the current km textfield's back-end as it does now. The scan button needs no changes, it'll kickoff a query to the km field as before and do its thing with that same value. Sole addition would be listening to focus-loss on both UI textfields, and convert-updating the respective other on this event, mimicking user input sans focus changes. And yes, it'd have to be inserted in the chain before the already in-place onValueChange auto-execute scan.
That's it.
Short of building a loop, I cannot see (right now, please correct me if wrong) how this could break anything functional because it doesn't touch on anything functional. As for the UI, I trust they have the experience to make it right first try. And even if something unexpected creeps in ("goto fail" anyone?  ), it'll be a layout break, not functional.
(Disclaimer: I'm first to admit all the above as void the moment someone source privy points out "yeah, but more involved, done differently, historic code". Just if it isn't, let us have this change, pretty please with cherry on top. )
Mockup DScan Rubicon_1.1 w/ added AU textfield
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G¥ñ "Little Things"-á G¥ñ CCP karkur G¥ñ |
HTC NecoSino
Blackstar Privateers
Disavowed.
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Posted - 2014.02.26 17:10:00 -
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Hey.. HEY.. CCP..... *tapping toe* |
Solumon Caar
Senex Legio
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Posted - 2014.02.26 18:39:00 -
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+1. This is a no-brainer.
In terms of scale KM means nothing on dscan. AU does.
Thanks OP. And as someone else said, "How has this not been suggested before?".
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Jinn Aideron
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Posted - 2014.02.26 21:38:00 -
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I'll just leave this here: CCP Karkur tweets DScan change for Sisi.
Can't believe it took me full 9 minutes to catch this tweet! 
Also, her edited(?) Little Things preview post:
- The Directional Scanner has now 2 input fields (km and AU) and a slider for range input. The 3 inputs are connected so when one is changed, the other ones update.
- The angle slider in the D-scanner as been changed so it's non-linear and has even steps to make it easier to select the lower angles
Isn't this just the best thing ever? G¥ñ
Mockup DScan Rubicon_1.1 w/ added AU textfield
Related forum post
G¥ñ "Little Things"-á G¥ñ CCP karkur G¥ñ |
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HTC NecoSino
Blackstar Privateers
Disavowed.
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Posted - 2014.02.27 13:31:00 -
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Let the easy combat-scanning commence!  |
Protoburger
The Red Circle Inc.
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Posted - 2014.02.27 14:11:00 -
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Wooho finally !!!
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=325233
http://themittani.com/news/ui-upgrades-rubicon-13
screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/XSCiqex.jpg
gg |
Pew Terror
Green Associates
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Posted - 2014.02.27 18:51:00 -
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KiithSoban wrote:-1
because D-scan is in km I learned two useful things:
largest 8 bit number is about 2.1 bil
An AU is roughly 150,000,000 km.
makes me feel like I've wasted a little less of my life.
the largest natural number representable by an 8bit unsigned integer is actually 255 (2^8).
Signed 32bit integer representations are roughyl 2.1bil (2^31).
Conclusion: Poster learned only one thing. Proportionally higher fraction of life wasted. |
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