EVE General Discussion

I see. What other skill-based activities do you enjoy?

Fitting the square peg through the square hole?

Setting probe patterns was not difficult. It did not require intellect or skill, and only a bare minimum of knowledge about the probing mechanics.

Setting up the pattern took no real time or skill to begin with; resizing it was a two-click-drag affair. If you want something other than the pre-set pattern for some more advanced (which you often do), you have to move stuff around more now than ever before.

In fact, one of the main complaints I've seen about this change is that it doesn't dumb down things: people will still have to drag probes around to form their favorite, task-specific search patterns. All this auto-formation does is dump a ton of probes into space under the assumption that you're looking to scan down a single signature… which isn't necessarily true.

It sound more and more like you aren't entirely familiar with the shortcuts available in the current systems, tbh.

Moving some probes around before the changes wasn't *skill based* - it was clicking and dragging the mouse a little bit, repeated over and over when first dropping the probes. It was massively tedious. Once you've done that it's the same as before.

Now if they had increased probe scan strength by 100%, made them scan faster etc... Now that would be dumbing probing down.

All they've done is made it less of a pain in the arse. The principles are the same.

i kind of liked it being tedious. it helped ensure that not everyone in the game would be out there probing because they felt it was boring or they were impatient on that level. which translated into less competition for sites.

I need scanning to be less tedious, so my alliance mates can freaking scan down things themselves.

I don't have much hope though. They're too lazy to teach, even with a "crap out probe formation" button.

i hate probing in its current form. way too tedious for me to bother. the new system sounds delightful. i might even train exploration skills!

i could. in low and below. but say i'm in highsec looking for low sec ore grav sites (which just any scrub will be able to find before long as well) or combat sites or w/e...it seems bad for business to trade a strategic cruiser to concord for an imicus or magnate killmail lol

Kids these days don't know how good they have it.

When I was your age, probes didn't warp. If we wanted them to be somewhere, we had to warp there first and eject the probe out of our ship.

I'm not joking

Dumbing down is defined as a subjective term. Put that in your swag bag and hipster it.

Give feedback, good feedback, not tears.