Morwen Lagann
Tyrathlion Interstellar
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Posted - 2015.11.18 06:10:02 -
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+1 to Mark's post above. I noticed that and didn't pay it too much mind since I always relied on the percentage bar on the signature list.
Speaking of the signature list - while you've certainly cleaned it up, I don't think having a colored line under the signature's information line is particularly ideal or really all that readable. All it looks like at a glance is a line separator, not an indicator of the strength of the result. The existing version that fills in a highlight behind the entire line of text works better, IMO.
A couple additional things:
The manipulators for moving probes do not appear after the probes are launched, until you press control, alt or shift. Not game-breaking, but a little odd, since the first thing you're generally going to do after launching your probes is move them.
The old scanning interface let you create probe formations and then save them with names. You could then set one as default and from then on, clicking on the custom formation button would just move the probes into that formation. In the current iteration of the beta scanning UI, the button doesn't seem to do this; instead you click on or hover over the button, then have to move up OFF of the button to click on the custom formation in a drop-up (yes, drop-up) menu that appears. Extra clicking and/or movement involved as it is currently in the beta interface; the behavior of the old button is superior and more efficient - odds are users are not going to be switching between formations all that often, so displaying a list of custom formations, while a requirement, should be considered and treated as the secondary function of the button, not the primary one.
Grabbing the edges of probe scan radii still feels a little finicky and more difficult compared to the old interface.
Generally speaking, this iteration of the scanning UI is far and away an improvement over literally every iteration up to this point: namely, It's actually usable. Not sure if I'm faster with it than with the old one, but the only way to figure that out is with more practice, but at least I'm not going "OMG **** THIS ****" five seconds after opening it anymore. 
Morwen Lagann
CEO, Tyrathlion Interstellar
Owner, The Golden Masque
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Morwen Lagann
Tyrathlion Interstellar
1587
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Posted - 2015.11.18 14:56:59 -
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CCP Goliath wrote:
Lines and colors are getting revisited most likely in the next release. The cube not showing the first time you launch is a bug and will be fixed. The custom probe thing has been fixed this morning internally and will be deployed once the fix is tested (not today). Picking the sphere sides is more difficult by design - this was the compromise we ended with to appease those who mistakenly grab the sphere sides, and those who want to scan onehanded without the use of modifiers. The most efficient way to resize probes at the moment is undoubtedly alt-mousewheel.
Cool, thanks for the quick response. Out trying the scrollwheel thing right now - will take some getting used to.
Regarding Mark's thing - I think a previous iteration had little circular progress bars around the signature icons in the map. Perhaps that should come back, if signatures are going to turn green around ~75%?
Morwen Lagann
CEO, Tyrathlion Interstellar
Owner, The Golden Masque
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