Player Features and Ideas Discussion

you do know another part to the change is scan mods, right? Like stack up a buzzard with them and you as I am reading it gets almost virtue level performance. The gankers lose one trick, get another.

DSP's were really an out of empire thing. The gank crews in empire are getting if done right get very fast lock times and not having to pay for virtues to get it. if their owner is on the ball and fleet mates are half decent you get very little time from seeing probes on ov to seeing a tackle called on you.

It's taking away one gankers method and boosting another one. You actually want the dsp's in play and not the ghetto virtue buzzard that will cost less then 40 mil (vice whatever full virtues go for these days). Especially if you have done anything to be hard to find in your ship. Virtues made this is a viable setup. Not many shake and bake probers in empire or elsewhere are going to be virtue'd up. Soon, they won't have to.

I am not even a scanner and I hate this change. I am a pve'er who wants dsp low power scans. They find their uber BS carebears and go pop them leaving me in my hard to find tengu alone. I am looking at this change and basically enjoying the last days of hard to find tengu flying. Just can't decide what bs to replace it with.

The tl;dr....carebears get the shaft in this deal as well. Enjoy the tears...they will enjoy yours as a fresh new probe alt will be able to get lockable signals in record time not needing the SOE implants or the max skills currently needed for this.

+1 save the DSP's

I don't see how removing the Deep Space Probes will bring back the sense of "there's a whole Universe out there", the way I saw explained as a spearhead in coming expansions. I saw the scanning system as a new player, figured out that I needed the DSP's, trained for it, and had MY sense of achievement by finally being able to use them.

I figured out most of the other uses explained here and it even got me into WH-daytripping, because I felt saver with them fitted. I even decided to take my first steps in having a POS in W-Space because of this "chain-of-achievement". With Odyssey coming, I feel like my work has been for naught: I had just graduated from Eve-college and now they tell me my certificate is worthless and I have to go find another profession. That's how it feels. Now, I just want to drop the whole thing and go do something else in Eve.

They'd have to come up with a Real Good alternative to nullify this sense of injustice I'm experiencing. Getting good at Eve is tedious work, but I have persevered. Now you're taking away my achievement? Really? So please: let them stay. They are the hallmark of a dedicated scanner. It COUNTS for something if you can use these. Taking them away just lowers CCP's standing to me. In a virtual kind of way.

TL;DR - Just... don't do this.

yeah, Living in a WH I want to keep the DSPs. They are way too useful for those who have taken the time to learn them and develoted the skill points to being able to use them.

They are more useful than most people think, dont get rid!

so yet another time no dev gives a f*ck about what players think and want? How surprising

O lord dumbing it down.............


+1

if they arent going to allow us use our own formations, they should scrap their entire concept and leave us a working probing mechanism so long.
dont want and never needed formations of 7 f*cking probes, so I'm even required to have 7 of them in the launcher at any time I want to use them. wtf is this CCP? Finish your job and pls dont deploy half done stuff on tranq!

+1
save the DSP.