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What is making scanning too easy is the 5% per level to scan time reduction, scan deviation reduction, and scan strength. It is too much, maybe 2% to all would be more in-line and then bump the support skills back up to 10% per level.
I can understand why you wanted to give the Astrometrics skill something as you can launch 8 probes by default, but 5% per level is just too much.

Well, during the fascist period in Italy, people were allowed to vote against the fascist party too. It's just that there were strong incentives not to do so. Obviously CCP does not have anything to do with fascism, but I hope you understand my point, it's not enough to say "you are free to do as you wish" when you stack the deck heavily in your favor.



No argument there. On the other hand moving my probes into a formation of YOUR making will require no time at all. If you can't see the problem right there, I don't know what else to tell. If you DO see the problem, but you don't have the resources to tackle it, see below:



I think this is the issue. I can certainly understand that you don't have resources to implement formations right away, given the time constraints (I could argue that for this to be an exploration themed expansion CCP seems to have devoted a surprisingly small amount of resources to exploration, but I will not, in this post).

But if you don't want people like me going back to the jita monument, implementing customizable formations is something that should be top priority, and a commitment you should take with your playerbase and the (unconsulted) CSM even before odyssey release. A "we will do that when we have time" is likely to be implemented in a couple of years from now, and in the mean time all kind of damage will have already been done...

Exactly my point.

The basic probe pattern is, according to many experienced scanners, inferior to their advanced scanning techniques. Wouldn't it be dumbing down then if these advanced patterns are easily recalled?

Yes, if you add the option to hot drop anywhere in eve (well, outside HS obviously) and give easy to use route information to any target anywhere. Deal?

Why would you get SP back? The skill isn't removed and still has valid uses. It would be unfair to refund SP every time a skill changes.

Not everyone used the DSP in this way. I'm looking forward to trying out the changes.

My request is if I create a formation and set the probes at different sizes that it maintains that relationship even if I resize them. If Idrop 8 combats and have 4 at 8au, and the other 4 at 2au if I make them smaller as a group they will go to 4/1 or 2/0.5. Not at the computer to see if it's currently possible but that would offer options for those with Astrometrics 5 and using 8 probes.

Ability to assign probes to 2 or more different groups controlled separately would be nice too.

When the System-Scanner-Thingy can populate my scan results window with a list of sigs it found so I don't have to spin, mouseover, manually write down info, wash repeat, THEN it will replace my DSP's functionality for PVE.

Until then it is merely eye candy and barely useful as a substitute.

Hi,
I'd like to state that I fully agree with most (negative) criticism provided here towards the new scanning features (formations, system scanner, UI changes, etc.). Please don't fix something that is not broken by watering it down to not require any skill from the player whatsoever..

EVE IS HARD. As with most things it should be easy to get in to and difficult to master (as scanning is today). A player that isn't into exploration today will not be into exploration after these fluff changes either (at least not in the longer perspective) - however the players that find the challenging nature of it interesting now will likely find it trivial in the future..