Player Features and Ideas Discussion

sorry for the shameless bump but is really no one interested in such a thing?

so many things in eve are still broken, if they hadn't neglected things for so long maybe things like this and WiS could have been a thing

I suggested something similar. Push the probes beyond the star system and give us far our sigs to try and hunt down even if it takes hours of warping to get there. Let us be pioneers.

DED sites are not visible with the regular scanner.

On board scanner's range is 64AU, anything outside of that won't appear on the list.

To truly make exploration interesting there could be something like a jovian writing / map that leads you to another site, putting investigation together with the scanning / probing would give it more depth and later on would lead to bigger things introduced into the game.

What I'd rather have is for scanning itself to become less lol-easy, it's ridiculously simple atm. Throughout the years it has gone from super easy to quite challenging, back and forth, but atm it's just silly. It's like Fisher Price Probe launchers and My First Scanning.

Scanning should be a specialisation, something that requires effort and some planning. And part of all that is having more options and tricks, like deep saves.

To solve the problem of deep safes the game could require once you leave a solar system that you plant an anchoring device. Due to the lack of local gravity fields from a solar system the navigational systems on your computer need something to lock on to. Anchors would have to be deployed, right clicked on and activated by a ship/player who wishes to use it. Once activated a player could log out and the ship would do a typical emergancy warp out and warp back in on the anchor when they log in. These anchors could have meta levels that do things from increase tonnage that can anchor (possibly even medium building sized anchors for larger ships) how long the anchor will last, and it's sig radius.

This means that not only will they need a large anchor to deep safe a capital ship, but they would have to contend with being able to be identified by deep space probes. Ya know, if those were a thing or got brought back.

Now this could be countered by having multiple anchor spots all over but it leaves your unattended decoy anchors vulnerable to salvagers or possibly even hackers if CCP lets players hack certain structures. This could be yet another way to find out what is anchored there aside from simply probing down and spying.

Or.... rather than trying to fling things out, we could put more into a system, so exploration isn't 'lets sail the huge ocean till we hit land' but 'lets explore this forest to find the particular tree we want to find'.

Imagine, systems that are busy with dozens of sigs & anoms, all of them of value.
Now imagine that things aren't clearly labeled 'Dark Sansha loot pinata' but all you get is 'Sansha Frigate' 'Hawk class' (For random mix example). But that we also get rid of the useless 5 DPS trash frigates. So that there are 5 or 6 targets in the site, any of which might have value in terms of rats. And you can use Relic/Data scanners on any object in a site, and random objects each time will have loot (Not random per object but site randomly designates). But the lore of the site gives some of them more likelyhood than others. I.E. 'Sansha Shipyard' you would be more likely to get relic results on all the shipyard related structures, but it doesn't mean you will for sure.

Now isn't that much more interesting exploration than 'I launch a deep space probe and click a few times' or 'I spend 5 minutes carefully placing probes one by one fighting a clunky interface' (Which is what the 'difficulty' in the old system actually was).

It's easy to bring back true exploration, simply remove cosmic signatures from instantly appearing with the discovery scanner.