Test Server Feedback

If i only have 7 probes (but skill for 8) i cant launch my probes atm? Edit: i meant via the formation button.
Oh cool, the copy paste button is in there. edit 3: doesnt yet work though?
Edit 2: they launch at the sun, iso where i'm at if you hit scan after launching.

After the very recent update on Sisi, here is my feedback :

Nice new probes formations of eight probes ! Pinpoint is better, Spread no longer has holes in the area covered !

One problem though, the colums need to be resizable manually. Currently, you need to expand the size of the scanning window way too much compared to what should be requiered, if you want to read the full signature name (aka type). While other columns, expanded equally, are full of empty space.

When you got a 100% result, did you check to see if you were right next to the wormhole? If you can't warp to it, you can't warp to it.

Didn't believe I was, but can't prove it one way or another now :P I'll have to try again tomorrow after DT to see if it's a wormhole thing or I was next to the hole.

Scanner Window:

TIMER, TIMER, TIMER, TIMER. (Reducing the size of the filter drop down box and putting it on the same line seems to be the best option if you haven´t figured it out yet)
Make columns adjustable. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.
Stop the annoy splash as you scroll to unseen results, its cool but annoying it will become after a year or so.
Kill the warp to button, it is not necessary, yes it makes it easy, but easy is how you make mistakes and lose ships.
Signal columns gives warp to button after a scroll up/down, so two warp too buttons !!!
Using on board scanner should give all the results displayed by the overlay scanner on entry scan, not to do so implies a broken system, the data was collected so why is it not displayed?
Make a space between destroy probes and re-connect to probes, same distance as scan and recover should do it.

Scanner window, probes in use with Map view open:

Noticed probe 8 is 6th on the list on launch.
Is the list icon really required?
Launch spread get 16 AU default range, scan and find 3 sigs from 0.4 au to 9, resizing probes to 8Au using all rows selected in the scanner window by rh click changes the range but the formation does not move to give an overlap, and scanning reflect this. Resizing by dragging blue sphere edge does move them, old code had them linked, so you wrote new code base without reference to old it seems.
Scan range does not update as you do it in scanner window only on activation of scan
Selecting in scanner top window is not persistent, IT SHOULD BE PERSISTENT as it is presently.
Pinpoint formation selection still goes to default 4 Au, it should stay at the currently selected range for ease of use.
Again pinpoint does not adjust if you use the selected columns rh click method of resizing.

It seems to be totally reliant on using the mouse in the map window to do every thing, doing this makes its so simple to get a hit with what is essentially a single probe object as you do not have to split them at all.

The Probes:

In all honesty the formation launch and movement is HAVING ONE SUPER PROBE

Give a single launch option or change the launcher so 8 probes count as one set (as it works as a single entity by default) and we can have a capacity of several sets loaded., makes sense as your trying to make it easier.

On probe strength, currently with the same ship i use on Tranquillity (Rapier) in Sisi i have fitted all three new mods and get same strenght (actually slightly less). when i off line the mods the probe strength etc stays the same, as it does when i on-line them (all in space btw), so mods are not modifying probes or they are and fitting/info are not yet linked?

CCP better start calling this pseudo Super Probe a Probe Set and have launch options for single probe deployment as many people deploy singles and need flexibility when hunting for PvP.

The best option in my very humble opinion is to have combat probes launch as single probes and Core probes to launch as a set, this gives CCP an easy way out code wise, keeps PvP hunters happy and allows the new easy find super probe system to open up the game to all and sundry with ease
if ccp use that idea, i'll be amazed as its the simple and logical one

That is more work and very cumbersome, Ody is meant to be making probing more accessible: Combats and Cores have different uses and difference masses therefore such a solution would make sense.

The new frustrated players are here because CCP has tried to change the demographics of the player base, they are now changing the game to a more friendly but shorter term game, its all shiny and shallowness, its loosing depth.

And ONE SUPER PROBE a.k.a. the formations, is EASY, times EASY².

Combats as singles and cores as sets, keeps both sides happy as they will get in Ody.

you seem forget that all we asked for was player defined launch patterns. and yes that applies to combats.

otherwise i agree with you.

Current bug with the window is scrolling lists, you will notice some duplication and stuff going on. Should be resolved by the next build.

Today on the test server Combat Scanning