Sacrificial Lamb
Caldari
Science and Trade Institute
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Posted - 2009.02.09 22:37:00 -
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Some feedback from a long time explorer:
* Love the new approach, skill vs luck always flicks my switch :)
* Scene 2 results in an unusable map. I can see my ship and the space around me, but also the square icons of stations. No probe graphics are visible, so its a bit useless currently.
* Switching off Scene 2 results in a usable map, but in the scanner the probes window cannot be expanded so I cannot select a single probe. However when scanning it always uses all probes.
* "Triangulation" is only really true until you get past two probes. After that you just dump 4+ probes as close as possible to each other and vary their range, which leads to the next point.
* When you get close to a site, multiple probes gets seriously fiddly and often results in mis-clicking and unintended vertical movement. This gets even more fiddly and normally necessitates a second set of probes when results are off the astral plane.
* I know exploration is supposed to be hunting for the "unknown", but not knowing a general idea about what is in the system before I invest the time in scanning for it will get old real quick. 10 minutes each to find asteroid belts and a couple of archeaology sites when you would like to find radar or wormholes will really reduce the fun factor expecially in 0.0 when statistics suggest you will HAVE to refit/swap ships as you will not have the right hacking/analysing/salvaging/mining/wormholing modules/ship. Solo exploration just got really hard, which means many people will not bother. I know the point is to encourage group play, but by the time it takes you to find a site and gather a group, it will become a pvp encounter instead of a ninja exploration raid.
* Several times I have had to destroy a group of probes that will not return. They just seem to loop between warping and idle while going nowhere and just flickering.
* My ships speed gauge does not work either in warp or normally.
* Placeholder stats on everything? Sisters Probe launchers? Sisters probes?
* A couple of times I have had a result for every probe, all slightly different in area and location. During this cycle I had 6 probes reporting a cosmic signature in both columns on the scanner with 100% accuracy, but I could not warp to it. Another two probes in the same group had 84% and 87% accuracy but only had a cosmic signature in the first column, not the second. EVE crashed a few minutes after this while fiddling about with the probes further.
* Once I had 4 probes at 0.5AU radius reporting a site 28 AU away. I found the site and warped to it and I travelled 28 AU on the readout, but my ship only physcially moved about 0.28 AU(???).
Thats enough for tonight :) |