Midnight Hope
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2015.11.03 23:28:07 -
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- 2015-11-03 23:05:28 UTC |
Scanning with probes...
- HUD missing in full screen mode using the new map - this reduces situational awareness (is my MWD running? am I still cloaked? why did I run out of cap??). This is key.
- Color contrast of sigs is much worse than the old map, perhaps use less dark shades of red/yellow/green. Also the "dot" is way too small in certain situations... or is that not THE dot and simply the center of the red bubble/red dotted circle? This is confusing. Seems there are two dots, the small one we can ignore and the big one that is where the sig is located.
- Scan results are misleading. When you used to get a results of a red circle in the old map, you know the sig is somewhere in the circle. That's not longer the case. I get hits that show up as a circle and the resulting sig is nowhere near the circle, most of the times not even on the same plane. I just tried it and got a hit on a structure waay up on the plane while the actual structure was a POS at a moon.
This makes using the tool not only a pain but outright unreliable. You get a results and are not sure where to look next, might as well not show anything...or display a red bubble.
- Sigs and results are not highlighted in the map when you move your probes on top. In the old map, when a previously scanned sig (say a red dot) came under your probes radius (aka inside the blue balls), the red dot would get brighter. That's no longer the case. This makes very difficult to know when you have your probes properly positioned or not. Now you have to move the view on two axis to check if your probes are correctly positioned or not.
- When scanning structures, once you get them to the "yellow" range (+%25), they show up as a yellow icon in the new map. However, if you do the same with a signature, the red uncertainty ball still shows up even though the result is also in the yellow range (+%25). This is inconsistent and very confusing.... and very hard to reproduce now that I typed this (see last paragraph).
- I can't seem to filter out structures. Even after turning the structure filter off (see last paragraph again grrr).
- Icons are not consistent. You scan down a POS and a POS icon shows in the map. This is correct. Now you scan a wormhole and a beacon icon shows up. Why not use the wormhole icon???
Last paragraph
There are other issues that are hard to pin down. Things disappear with no rhyme or reason. Results and icons that are there one minute, two scans later they are gone (even structures, so no this is not a relic site someone just completed). This makes the whole experience very confusing. Sometimes things work ok and then stop working... 2 scans later they go back to working fine again. The whole thing is VERY unreliable.
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