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Deitis Surtic
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2011-11-12 03:16:02 UTC
Any chance of giving the option to switch the Directional Scanner between KM and AU? I see a hell of a lot of pilots around with the KM/AU conversion table in their BIOs, and I personally just tend to use it maxxed out.

Either an outright change to AU (which actually makes a hell of a lot more sense for a space-based instrument) or the ability to toggle would - hopefully - be very well received.

Feedback would be appreciated. What do you guys prefer? AU or KM?

- D
Backinblack3333
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#2 - 2011-11-12 03:19:18 UTC
i would like to have the ability to toggle between KM/AU, as this would be a useful feature
Tor Ramius
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#3 - 2011-11-12 04:17:26 UTC
I Concur.
Jiji Hamin
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2011-11-12 04:23:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Jiji Hamin
Or have two number boxes, one KM and the other AU, and if you fill one the other auto-updates, and then there is a single search button next to them. idk, whatever would be quickest and easiest to use. but i concur with the general sentiment. i'm already very good with d-scan and now can ballpark the conversions pretty fast, but tbh i shouldn't have had to learn that and i feel pity for all those noobs who still have to :( skill in eve shouldn't reside in places like this.
Xenial Jesse Taalo
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2011-11-12 07:40:53 UTC
+1

Really little change, no downside, no practical reason for having KM in the first place.
Jiji Hamin
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2011-11-12 09:22:13 UTC
Xenial Jesse Taalo wrote:
+1

Really little change, no downside, no practical reason for having KM in the first place.


there is
Deitis Surtic
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2011-11-12 14:32:09 UTC
Bumping this - thanks for the responses so far, guys.

Here's hoping for a Dev response!
Xenial Jesse Taalo
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2011-11-12 14:43:31 UTC
Oh, I was thinking of probes. Woops.
Deitis Surtic
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2011-11-12 14:55:12 UTC
Xenial Jesse Taalo wrote:
Oh, I was thinking of probes. Woops.


Don't probes already use AU?
Xenial Jesse Taalo
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2011-11-12 15:20:11 UTC
Ok I was combining the two and picking out the wrong result. :D
Daedalus Arcova
The Scope
#11 - 2011-11-12 17:24:04 UTC
Supported. +1
mkint
#12 - 2011-11-12 23:18:18 UTC
+1 for radial buttons (that converts the current number that's in there between the two, just like windows calculator does with binary and hex)

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Tamiya Sarossa
Resistance is Character Forming
#13 - 2011-11-12 23:27:21 UTC
Gotta have the toggle, while AU's would be useful I'm not willing to give up KM functionality for it.
Jiji Hamin
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2011-11-13 00:55:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Jiji Hamin
Tamiya Sarossa wrote:
Gotta have the toggle, while AU's would be useful I'm not willing to give up KM functionality for it.


yeah we need both, not a permanent switch from one to the other
Adunh Slavy
#15 - 2011-11-13 02:06:18 UTC
+1

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Kerdrak
Querry Moon
#16 - 2011-11-13 09:43:40 UTC
What if you had to choose between range or angle? something like:

360º =7 AU max
180º=14AU max
...
5º=250AU

It would make game more fun.
Gempei
Marvinovi pratele
#17 - 2011-11-13 22:42:57 UTC
Backinblack3333 wrote:
i would like to have the ability to toggle between KM/AU, as this would be a useful feature

maybe thisRoll
Xenial Jesse Taalo
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#18 - 2011-11-13 22:54:10 UTC
Not a big fan of that idea, as I feel the angle slider is already too cumbersome.

The easiest, lightest solution would be: where it says "km", make that a button. No other change required. Clicking it toggles between km and AU. Tiny edit, issue solved.

Small addition to this idea: when the user presses SCAN or the Enter key, holding Shift treats the input as AU, holding Ctrl treats it as KM. The toggle button updates accordingly. Saves even needing to find the mouse to click that button.
Endeavour Starfleet
#19 - 2011-11-14 08:12:52 UTC
Supported
Magic Crisp
Amarrian Micro Devices
#20 - 2011-11-15 11:17:37 UTC
+1.

I'd also add a slider in order to be able to adjust it without typing anything. Some presets would be nice, like for the direction.
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