EVE General Discussion

Yea its nice.

Definite improvement.

Anyone who says otherwise needs to buy a cerebral accelerator or something.

Yeah, I don't get the outcry, either. It's mainly an interface cleanup and aside from a few glitches that will hopefully be fixed in short order, it looks and works great. I had no trouble scanning down the first few signatures I tried. Nothing has changed much from how it was before, really, except that the buttons have been moved. And I guess the map thing, but I like that.

Oh and +1 for being able to assign probe scan refresh to a hotkey.

It is still excessively buggy.

For a combat scanner like me, it is immense frustration seeing targets get away - because the scanner decided to at up.

I like the concept, but it is NOT FUNCTIONAL for a combat scanner.

It needs to be sent back to the drawing board ASAP and work out the bugs.


Edit: for those who want to go back to the old scanner which is MUCH more reliable

Go to general settings, and uncheck the "experimental map" on the bottom left.

Thank me later

I like the idea of [the new map and the idea of new probe scanner... Although, it is far to un-responsive for my taste. I spent alot of time mousing over the probes just trying to get it to register in order to expand or refine the probe distance.
"AU" also found very unresponsive to dragging around by the main box instead of them annoying arrows ccp refuses to do away with.. id have to say... what was wrong with the old?

the "outcry" is that the few "glitches" you guys are experiencing make the scanning all but unusable for others.


scanning is tedious, they introduce something buggy that makes it even more tedious. you are going to hear complaints. the nature of bugs and glitches is that they can effect others more severely than you due to the many variables at play.

so everyone is glad to hear you arent having issues


maybe when the bugs are fixed people will actually be able to make a good assessment

+1 changes good

I never scanned anything until today. Saw the hubbub and went and got some probes and launcher and trained up to skills lvl 2.
Within an hour I scanned my first wormhole down, and got the next one in about 15 minutes.

Not a stunning feat to be sure, but for an absolute scanning newbie that's pretty good! It seemed fairly intuitive once I figured out what the symbols and graphics were.

+1 going to spend some time on the process and skills.

No doubt some people had serious issues.

But most of the complaints I read were about fairly trivial annoyances that can be adjusted to if a person shows a tiny bit of resourcefulness. For instance, one bug that I hope will be dealt with quickly is the one where you can't see your probe boxes/handles to move them after first launching (or maybe at other times, idk -- I only had it happen to me right after launch). When faced with this situation, a player has two choices: freak out and declare the new interface broken and unusable; or try pressing keys to see if anything helps. Again, this is an example more than a specific instance, but I've been seeing a lot more of the former than the latter.

And to the people who say things like, "I'm a combat scanner and I can't use my probes anymore!" (not necessarily the person who posted in this thread) please just go into your interface options and turn off the new scanning UI. Also consider acclimating yourself to the new interface in a non-life-or-death situation rather than trying to use it in a combat situation and getting frustrated or even killed.

There's an option in the setting menu to choose to try the new star map... or not.

Its not perfect, but overall I like the changes and will continue to use the new version. People who don't like it can can use the previous version, at least until the new version has been perfected. So really there isn't that much to complain about.