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Sc00by K
Office of Orifice Expansion
#1 - 2012-06-27 16:13:27 UTC
i've been doing a lot of probing lately, and had a thought that a saved preset of a probe pattern would be a nifty little feature. 3 or 5 preset shapes that the player can save when he has his probes layed out, to be formed again on the next deployment of probes with just a press of a button.

maybe worthless, i think it'd be swell.
Luc Arbosa
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2012-06-27 16:58:32 UTC
Sc00by K wrote:
i've been doing a lot of probing lately, and had a thought that a saved preset of a probe pattern would be a nifty little feature. 3 or 5 preset shapes that the player can save when he has his probes layed out, to be formed again on the next deployment of probes with just a press of a button.

maybe worthless, i think it'd be swell.


It would make initial scan setup much faster, which is probably also the biggest argument against it. Smile Also, I think you just need one pattern -- pick the center point and deploy probes around it at half the scan range. Deploy probes C-N-E-U-S-W-D, don't know what you would do with the 8th probe. Maybe allow the user to set the deploy direction sequence above.
Simi Kusoni
HelloKittyFanclub
#3 - 2012-06-27 19:46:59 UTC
Sc00by K wrote:
i've been doing a lot of probing lately, and had a thought that a saved preset of a probe pattern would be a nifty little feature. 3 or 5 preset shapes that the player can save when he has his probes layed out, to be formed again on the next deployment of probes with just a press of a button.

maybe worthless, i think it'd be swell.

It would be nice, but quickly positioning probes is half the skill. Once you've got that down to a few seconds scanning systems takes only a few minutes. Especially with shift/alt.

Give that capacity to everyone with the click of a button, you'll have a lot more people scanning down systems a lot more quickly. Probably a bad thing for the people who are good at scanning already.

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