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Thank you for the update. It seems like the plan is to replace the deep space probe with the sensor overlay. I hope that the Five-O group knows this and can come up with a sufficient replacement.

Who should we be talking to for putting the sites identified by the sensor overlay on the system map?

Good replies, but in general I just want to say that it seems you're operating from a philosophy where if players aren't using something, you remove it and simplify things instead of making more current things viable.

To put it this way, if the ship rebalancing team had followed this philosophy, they would just remove 3-4 ships from each ship line instead of rebalancing them all.

This was not the only thing. Deep probes and combats could be arranged in a pattern where the deep probe is 2 sizes larger than the combat (8/2; 4 /1; 2/0.5) so that when you resize one type of probe when they are all highlighted they will maintain this relationship. This is an advanced technique to scan in WH.

The overlay does not give all the intel that a single DSP at 256au gives you. does the overlay show ships? player owned structures? anything other than cosmic/gravimetric/anomalies? as far as i understand it, and with the testing i have done, the answer is no. please acknowledge that you as a team will rethink this further.

Since they sem to be moving away from the limitation of using exactly 7 probes, reverting the skill change would be an option, true.

On the other hand, I just finished Astrometrics V because of the nice skill boni it will give :) (I'd be ok with only getting the 8th probe, though)

This is the configuration you could use with deeps and combats. For speed they would be planar, but still highly effective.

Currently NO. I hope wormhole god Bob has more influence than me.

i use dsp, and my opinion is, if you wish to make scaning more common and easy for ppl by removing deep space probe and give sensor overlay, for giving ppl faster way to use dps method of scaning, that ppl not must wait for make astrometic 5, is ok, but then sensor overlay must work like dps or better, doing from sensor overlay something like on board dsp scaner.

i don't realy care abaut skill points adavantage, becouse this is not advantage, you can buy 100mil sp char and still skill your barbie char and problem is solved

but if you nerf dsp scaning method by nerfing functionality, by not move all futures of deep space probe, to sensor overlay then is very not nice

The 'problem' with the sensor overlay, is that you don't have the information available at a glance.

Since you now make anoms (and grav sites) more easily available, heck, even signatures can been pinpointed quite well without using probes; using DSPs would give a very clear list of changes in your system. A perfect defensive mechanism.

The DPSs and the System Scanner lets you easily filter out all the things that you trust. But with the Sensor Overlay you have to keep panning around and around, to see whether a new wormhole opened up, meaning there's a possible threat.

Yes, I am talking about W-space.

Removing DSPs makes things a lot harder actually. Sure, new players don't have the skills to use them. But I trained a very long time to be able to use them, making it easier to see what's going on in our W-system. And now you take that away.


The Sensor Overlay looks really nice. I'm not sure how Fozzie(?) described the wish for it; more realistic? But nothing beats having a single list with results. And that's how I'd see it when I'd be in a space ship too, on some panel, or a 3d-hologram of the system;; the System Scanner.

Infinite? No.