EVE General Discussion

Is there a ETA on when it will hit test? I know its a bit early to know for sure, but a range would be nice.

no, theyre not since the removed bonus is being added to the astro skill. why do people not get this...

I wouldn't say so, no, but I think that "dumbed down" is a horrible, ugly phrase with no consistent usage or standards, so I can't guarantee that other people won't disagree with me

Why not remove PVE first? It's more tedious, repetitive and boring, and does not improve the overall game experience.

We need to do something about the interaction between probes and sniper fleets, yes.

Probably because the information isn't readily available and hasn't even been posted in a dev blog yet.

Combat scanning for PvP would be considerably slowed down if scanning a ship only enabled warping to/bookmarking the center of the grid that ship is on, instead of the ship itself.

This would considerably increase the value of covops cloaks or interdictors as well, especially if directly warping to fleet members remains possible, and why shouldn't it.

I'm sorry but I have to disagree. Making it unnecessarily difficult is silly but making it take effort, time and experience is NOT silly. Scanning as a profession that needs to be "mastered" and requires effort is good, automated dumb **** for non-effort easy mode clowns is terrible and even contemplating it as an option is so terrible there's seriously no words for it. If you have any plans in that regard (and perhaps for other stuff in EVE too) just say so now and save me the bother of logging in to add skills.

We'd like to look at how we can overhaul/replace/whatever d-scanning at some point, as it's an important tool and we're cautiously optimistic that we can do something better with it. No timescale though.




So... I kinda agree, but I kinda disagree. The bits of difficulty in the probing system where the difficulty is driven by other players are really interesting. The bits of difficulty where you're essentially playing a single-player game against the server I would say are less interesting in the context of an MMO like EVE, and divorced from their consequences to the rest of the game we'd generally lean towards cutting down that sort of difficulty, on the assumption that the time players would previously invest in that work would instead be spent interacting with other players (synchronously or asynchronously, directly or indirectly).

That's the general principle, anyway: we want people to have an edge in S&I, for example, because they've outsmarted their competition, not because they're better at using the S&I UI (which is not very efficient currently). When it comes to specific features, generally their consequences are not divorced from the rest of the game, and those consequences alter the equation so we look at them on a case-by-case basis.

I agree totally.

Granted I'm biased becasue this is largely my profession. However scanning is a skill that should require not only in-game skills but also player skills which have to be learned and practised.

Scanning for complexes or players should be made harder to reward those who spend the time and effort to perfect this skill.

I do fully agree though that we cannot go back to the old system as all worm hole dwellers would probably quit immeadiately - but "normnal" scanning should be a difficult and challenging occupation.

Making it easier is a real step backward imo (and I'm against the new auto-launch probe system simply becasue it dumbs scanning down)

Roy