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Reaver Glitterstim
Dromedaworks inc
Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2016.12.21 23:10:11 -
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Before probe formations were introduced, I would always scan with just 4 probes arranged in a diagonally-canted horizontal square (aka diamond) formation. The only advantage to using more probes seems to be when you're not sure of the target's location. At lower skills, it's especially tricky to determine where the object is, but with a bit of deductive reasoning combined with an understanding of how the probe results work, one can determine how to move the probes such that the location is hit by all 4 probes, thus giving a maximum accuracy result and allowing you to scan at a lower radius.
I feel that the built-in formations should be adequate yet sub-optimal. There should be some (small) benefit to a player who manipulates the probes manually, which should be especially important to characters with lower skillpoints in scanning skills.
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Reaver Glitterstim
Dromedaworks inc
Test Alliance Please Ignore
2995
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Posted - 2016.12.22 14:39:27 -
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Eye-Luv-Girls wDaddyIssues wrote:Rain6637 wrote:I use the poinpoint formation. I'd love a snap-to behavior that centers the probe formation on something I select, either a line item in the scan results or an icon on the map. Was saying the same thing. We dont need to make it overly easy, but for large warpable objects we should be able to do this.
Howabout a center control arrow-box that is simply connected to your formation and can be moved to move all your probes at once?
FT Diomedes: "Reaver, sometimes I wonder what you are thinking when you sit down to post."
Frostys Virpio: "We have to give it to him that he does put more effort than the vast majority in his idea but damn does it sometime come out of nowhere."
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Reaver Glitterstim
Dromedaworks inc
Test Alliance Please Ignore
3011
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Posted - 2017.01.03 16:44:32 -
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Bronson Hughes wrote:I use pinpoint formation for almost everything, custom formation to nail down particularly hard scans. If I need to cover a wider area to establish a rough position, I'll just use a larger pinpoint formation instead of a spread formation.
Same here. I avoid spread formation not because I don't spread my probes out, but because the spread formation just isn't a very good formation. One of the ways I ever use a custom formation is to make a custom spread formation, which is a bit flatter than pinpoint but mostly just overlapping less.
FT Diomedes: "Reaver, sometimes I wonder what you are thinking when you sit down to post."
Frostys Virpio: "We have to give it to him that he does put more effort than the vast majority in his idea but damn does it sometime come out of nowhere."
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Reaver Glitterstim
Dromedaworks inc
Test Alliance Please Ignore
3011
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Posted - 2017.01.06 04:04:10 -
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I have an idea: remove the two default probe formations, put in a basic mediocre formation that lazy people can go to, and allow players to create and save their own probe formations for future use, and allow sharing of probe formation setups.
Don't bother making a good formation for us. Let us make them for ourselves. That's the kind of game this is.
FT Diomedes: "Reaver, sometimes I wonder what you are thinking when you sit down to post."
Frostys Virpio: "We have to give it to him that he does put more effort than the vast majority in his idea but damn does it sometime come out of nowhere."
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