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Does the exact same thing but instead of needing astro v to drop a single probe and getting a sortable list you can now do it right out of the box without any character skills by screwing with your camera in space to get the same information by hovering over individual sig ids.

Just got up and running on SiSi again......

First impressions:

1 - How do i turn this off - is it always going to open when i enter a system to scan for anoms? Or can i choose to just use it when I am wanting to do this activity? For example me moving ships about, freighters hauling stuff...i have no desire to have this pop up every time i enter a system all the time

2 - I am not a big fan of the pixilated scanning wave - it leaving the squares to fade off my screen....its a bit annoying if you have it on - would be better to just have the wave with a smaller trail behind it imho.

3 - Does this thing not have any range ? ie: how can i be picking up things at such distances 14 AU for example is it basically an unlimited range scan now?

4 - I take it all former ORE gravs and such are going to be 100% hits all the time now? no more making people work for the special ores and actually have to drop a probe? I really dont like this - mostly because when i was but a wee podling i had to learn how to probe for my rare ores.

5 - Can these anoms be added to overview at all ? instead of just on screen or in the scanner page spreadsheet? Might be an idea then i can have an anom tab for when i decide to do that.

about to head to null and take a peek in the real world how this is gonna work.

So far my impressions are overall positive

~Regan~

" It runs once automatically every time you enter a system (undocking, jumping, bridging, whatever) so that you can get a glimpse of what's out there to find.
It can also be run continuously via the new radial version of the scanner button beside the console at the bottom of your screen. "

if i bridge / cyno in like 100 ships and these scanner thing running automatically wil it cause lag?

should there be option to turn off the auto scanner?

thanks

Feedback:

*Results need brackets that hover to screen edges when off-screen. This should be co-functional with the on-board system scanner when it scans down sites as well. Right now this new scanner feels far too separated from what's currently existing. Furthermore, results that are picked up by the new scanner should appear on the results list.

*Directional scan: Why hasn't this been touched? Functionally, this scanner can stay the same, but it would be nice it there was some overlay that displays the angle being utilized for the scanner. Maybe some kind of subtle visual/sound effect could be made for when the directional scanner picks something new up?

*There should be a toggle for the new scanner. Having the scanner automatically popping up is somewhat annoying. When the scanner is disabled, sound effects for it should be disabled as well. Right now, the scanner's sound effects will play even though the passive scan has already done its work and no visuals are active for the scan.

The scanner has not changed as you no it now. You CAN still open your ship scanner and hit analyze and get a list of all anomalies (and if you have probes out) Cosmic signatures too like you can now. The discovery scanner allows people to choose a visual way of doing that instead of a list. You can still do either or though depending on how you like to scan. Nothing is being taken away, only added.

That is not what Fozzie said..

I thought it was weird how it was automatic, seeing as it's kind of out-of-character for EVE to do things for you. I fully expected the sweep effect to occur when you actually press the button on the system scanner window.

I'd much prefer it that way, it's less in-your face and it keeps the effect fresh and doesn't beat it like a dead horse.

Why would anyone complain about them removing the list scanner? This is obviously a much faster and easier way to find what you need:

http://i.imgur.com/M0OPipD.png

Good luck finding anyone before they warp out!

You CAN still use the list view after they remove it, you will just need probes out to do it and anoms and sigs will only show on the list if they are in scan range of a probe. He is talking about removing the anoms from the list view without probes out.

Here's a few things you may not have thought of:

From a mathematical perspective, our ships "knowing" the position in the sky of a signature would allow us to pinpoint the position of a signature simply by warping from one side of the solar system to the other (using parallax). Even just dropping one probe and getting a "distance to target" would pinpoint the signature. The whole idea behind probes is that they use Trilateration which uses distance only. Once you have a pair of angles to go with a distance, pinpointing is very easy. Basically, you're breaking "Verisimilitude" by allowing us to see the sigs before we've pinpointed them, because no one in their right mind would use 7 probes do what 1 probe and a ship scanner can.


Furthermore, the "Signal strength" values in the tool-tips are too truncated, you need to show precision out to at least 2 decimal places (the lowest being 1.25%). Also it should be called "Signature Strength". "Signal Strength" is what % your at while scanning.



If you remove the list view of the scanner window, you will be making it unbelievably difficult to use. The list should still be there, and clicking on an element of the list should cause the "tracking" behavior currently avaible in the directional scanner. Sometimes more things to learn is more ways to learn, which is a good thing, not a bad one.