Originally by: Batolemaeus

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Better movement system for Probes/Posmods

Moving probes is very difficult, the system for moving posmods is outdated too. It's a pain moving them to the place where you want them, because you have to hit the arrows, and moving is very inaccurate.
Abandon this movement system in favour of a new one, borrowed from homeworld2 (i think there is nobody at ccp who has not played it..):
As long as ctrl isn't pressed, you move the thing on a plane. With a button (let's say ctrl) pressed, you modify the height.
That way one can move things very fast.

Why? Because the current system is horrible :-|

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Originally by: Ancy Denaries

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* Title: Probing system controls
* Category: Scanning/Probes
* Description: At the moment, moving probes around is both difficult and frustrating for several reasons. I'll outline them below:

1. The moving widgets are too large and obstructive for their purpose. This could be changed either by removing them entirely, or playing smaller arrows at the probes scanning edges.

2. Widget movement is unintuitive. It should be changed to a freeform drag n' drop in the X/Y plane, with a modifier key to move in the Z-plane. Similar to what has already been described in several threads. So, drag 'n drop to place it's X/Y position, then press SHIFT+CLICK and drag for Z-plane movement.

3. Probe reloading is awkward at best since all deployed probes count as "used" and cannot be repackaged back to it's stackable state. This causes EVERY probe to be loaded one by one into the launcher, costing valuable (and frustrating) time.

* Goal: The changes outlined above are meant to decrease the frustration of the interface, causing probing to be quite a lot more manageable than it is in it's current implimentation. Many of the annoying things with the UI would be solved if the above was taken in effect. The probe repackaging part could be done only in station, if you wish. (That doesn't seem to work now. I can't find the "Repackage" option in the context menu when selecting probes)

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