Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I would give my carpal tunnel inflicted right hand for two buttons on the system scanner interface.

One increments the scan range of all active probes by one step

One decrements the scan range of all active probes by one step

Please make this so - this wormhole scout will love you long time.

Hmm... Try shift and ALT?

Whenever I accidentally grab the sides of the probe instead of the arrows and it move the thing 2000 AU's I go into a blinding rage and throw my mouse at my cat.

maybe shift and bind to mouse wheel?

I would support some fixes to the glitchy probe labels.
and Id love some options to turn on and off other labels like planets and stations. or is that in some hidden menu option?

I also agree with said earlier Pooster

NO! why not just make it so you can drop your probes and hit scan!..

Since they added the inner circles to show people where to overlap and since they added the alt-drag to keep the probes in formation, it seems every man and his dog is probing for sites.

I remember the good old days when it was tedious and laborious and few could be ass'd doing it as a profession.

Make it harder if anything.

Reading comprehension people!

He wants to to change the range of his probes by a relative value (+1, -1), not set them to an absolute value.

If all your probes are the same size, it doesn't matter, but it makes a difference if you're using a center probe that's larger than the rest.

Also, while I have no problems with making scanning harder, CCP shouldn't make things in game more difficult by making the interface and controls a pain in the ass.

Make the mechanics behind things require more brainwork and skill, don't make the user interface an exercise in frustration.

Seriously?

The evening I posted this, I was scanning out a wormhole chain. In that chain, Bob gave us the good fortune of a C6 black hole after a C5 black hole after a C6 black hole. To those who have never had the fortune, there can easily be 40 signatures in those types of systems.

If your standard scan probe layout DOES NOT USE all the same range, then shift or alt drag messes it up.

Can you right click? Sure. But to scan down each Sig, you reset your ranges at least twice, and more likely three times. You have to do this for each probe range. Click, shift click, right click, click, click, right click, click, adjust probe locations, click each time you run a scan. Try doing that 300 times an hour to scan down two systems. Compare with click, click, adjust locations, click to scan.

Can you do it the way it is now? Sure. I do it every day. Does it suck? Yep! Would it make it easier? I don't think so- just less tedious. Please spin the recommendation to automatically set up scan orientations out to another thread. While that would also make things less painful, I think that would make combat scanning too easy.

For one, I still only have seven probes available. One in the center, one up, one down, one each NSEW. That way, you are able to find what a larger signature is at a 8/4AU range and if you miss slightly, your center probe overlaps the outer probes almost always, giving you at least a circular hit.

Yes, I filter, but you typically need to at least do a 8/4 to find where it is, and then a 2/1 or 4/2 to get it to 25%. The third is to refine if you have a high deviance hit the first scan. If you are scanning to 100, add one more scan.

Doesn't really work well outside of k-space exploration. Wormholes can be of almost any size, and ladars and gravs can be as well.