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So, i have also played a bit around with the new scanner.

On TQ I do not scan very often. That said i am also not very experienced in scanning.
My skills are not very high neither.

On SiSi yesterday i fitted an Anathema with a probe launcher and 7 sisters core probes, nothing else.

Scanning was very easy! No need to press shift, no need to sort probes...
As i am someone who has not high scanning skills and not much experience the changes help me a lot.

Although i think that most people complaining are right. It just becomes to easy. And high skills now are almost useless.
Whats with the specialists in scanning?
And finally give at least the functionality back with sorting the results... as someone said earlier.

Please, please talk to one of the w-space CSMs (old or new) and work closely with them in implementing the new system. It's quite obvious that the person designing these changes does not do a lot of scanning in game.

1. Preserve the feature that the scan result list can be copy-pasted. Even if it shows only bars in the game, selecting and copying it should give us the readout we currently get, including result strength numbers. Why is this important? Because many of us use chain-mapping sites that accept this input and populate the sig list, so we only have to do one scan and copy-paste the results instead of typing in every sig individually. If you remove this feature, the new system will be worse for us than what we have now, regardless of what other changes you make.

2. Change the hotkeys, for god's sake. As mentioned, alt+shift toggles the language settings on windows systems, so it's an absolute no-no. Also really awkward to use. Why does pressing just Alt not do anything anymore? It's the obvious choice for adjusting the distance between probes.
You should keep the current hotkeys as there is no reason to change them really. Alt for adjusting distance between probes, Shift for adjusting probe scan range.

3. Why only 7 probes? You really need to talk to some good scanners if you think that 7 probes is all we need. Yes, most people use 7 or less, but most people suck at scanning. They think they are good scanners because they can find every signature. A good scanner is a FAST scanner. Please talk to Jack Miton and let him explain to you why we need 8 probes, hmkay? If anything, you should change it so we can use 9 probes...

4. Why is the sorting of results gone? Sometimes I want to sort by strength, sometimes by type or sig id. Please bring this back.

5. No way to get a list of all signatures in the system anymore, seriously? We used to drop a single DSP or combat probe and do one scan to get a list of all sigs, so we know what's in the system and can also pre-sort the sigs by size. Now you remove the DSP altogether and take away the ability to just launch one probe, so we'd need to deactivate all probes except one and then scan, which is more awkward than before.
Solution: Since you display sigs on the sensor overlay anyway, show the sig list also in the scanner windows when doing a scan without probes launched (and make the list copy-able as mentioned in #1).
edit: Admittedly this is a minor issue... still, showing the sigs not only in space but also in the scanner window would be nice.

To end this on a positive note: I like that many things that required fiddly clicking and multiple key presses now work by just dragging the mouse. Also that brackets do not get in the way anymore.

UPDATE: After more testing, I realize that it does not make sense to critisize the changes based on how scanning works now on TQ, because there were other unmentioned changes, namely it has become much easier to scan signatures. It seems that we may not need 8 probes after all because scanning will be faster with 7 probes and the default formation than it is now with 8 probes and a custom formation. Scanning will be super-fast and super-easy. Definitely a big dumbing-down, but I kinda like it because it may bring more people into w-space and it will reduce time spent on mapping out chains.

Sort of. The probes don't automatically move into formation if you resize them from the probe menu. I hope and pray that this is a bug. However, I found that I needed to check the location of the probes after resizing from the map. It looks like the probes aren't actually retaining their relative distance to one another half of the time. This may be a glitch in the way the central arrows are displayed/scaled, but I ended up holding shift to inspect the formation after every resize and tweaking it with alt-shift a lot.

If that's a glitch somehow, well and good, but I don't just scan with my probes in one formation all the time forever. I'll be using the alt-drag less, but I will still want it.

7 probes limit suck, just tested it on sisi.

PLEASE REMOVE THIS LIMITATION ASAP.

seriously, wtf this is just random and arbitrary limitation

make it so we can launch all the loaded probes, or a specific amount we can custom, from 1 to 7 or 10 or whatever, but 7 or nothing is just plain ridiculous

The only reason to skill Astometrics to V is requirment for Jump Bridge Generation now?
It's very sad that combat probes no more, but I have another IDEA to make people with Atrometrics V smile.

Just make T2 probe launcher as good as Sisters version and add T2 versions of probes. This changes recompense this skill training and add a little advantage against people they not.

I think a lot was told about new scanning system, but my thinks:
- spread formations left empty gaps in space. Few minutes ago i scanned system and found 2 unknown sites with spread formations, and 3 unknown sites with pinpoint formation. Probes should be closer to central one.
- add possibility do define default formation that is activated after click in launcher module,
- add possibility do fefine default range of probes launched in every formation,
- should be possible do define new formations,
- should be possible do scan with not only 7 probes, and save it as personal formation,
- remember 100% hits,
- When i jump into system overlay appears and results are seen few seconds only, time to display should be longer, or at least configured. Additionally results of this system scan should be shown in scanner pannel after opening.
- clicking on scan result on the list when "Track camera" option is turned on, should sets camera on this result,
- give a little bonus for skille "Encryption methods" skill, for example: "+1 virus coherensy bonus per level Amarr Encryption Methods when hacking Sansha or Blood Raiders data cans"
- all new scan modules should be merged into one only with little bonus to all three parameters, and scriptable to focus on one only.

Please give an info when minisites will be playable.

see bug report 157572 :)

Or at least just allow the ability to launch probes individually.

Really? Then what were they pretty obviously for? They don't have the signal strength to scan anything down on their own (ie you'd never use 7 in a pattern, so why ever use more than one). And if they were just to show you in one scan all of the sigs but nothing more, they would be largely useless, especially for something that required astrometrics 5 to use.

No I would say it is quite the opposite. DSP's were absolutely designed to help speed up an advanced players scanning. One who was willing to train astrometrics to 5 AND use a ship capable of fitting an expanded launcher

He stated earlier they aren't reimbursing SP difference due to multiplier change.

Exactly. Deeps are an integral part in advanced scanning. I'm still in shock they're gone.

So far the only thing I like is the ability to move the entire formation with one block, but any decent scanner had no trouble holding shift.

I'm all for making scanning more accessible to newer players, but these changes are removing advanced scanning options.