Test Server Feedback

Hello there! As a fan of exploration I would like to add some feedback regarding the new Sensor Overlay and the functionality of the UI connected with it.

First of all the mouse acceleration in the Scanner selection window and the new circular interface is different from the mouse acceleration in the rest of the UI. It is slower and messes up with our muscle memory. It should be on par with the normal mouse acceleration of the rest of the UI. Also the cursor seems to be trapped inside a box, and can only be moved to a certain degree around the screen when the Scanner button is clicked. The cursor will also always return to the button when nothing is selected. When you click the Scanner button and then click something else in the UI the cursor will return to the position above the button without interacting with anything. I guess this is something that needs to be fixed in the coming builds. You need to be able to click different parts of the UI without the need to actually select anything from the Scanner submenu.

Selecting probes in the system probing windows is kinda bugged. In order to change the scanning range of all probes at once you can select them all (Alt+A) or Shift click them. The problem is you have to do it every time you perform a scan. This wasn't the case in this part of the old interface. The probes stayed selected after the scans so just a right click was enough to change the scanning range via the dropdown menu.

I also find the Sensor Overlay animation a bit intrusive. It sure looks super duper sexy and stuff but influences in a way the readability of the overview. The background gets pixelated and it doesn't help when I need to fight someone and do combat stuff, as it passes and leaves some green lines on my overview. The least CCP could do is lover the frequency of the fancy animation, let's say by a half or even more. Even better would be to implement a different indication that the Sensor Overlay (onboard scanner) is running. I noticed that the Scanner button is now animated the first time the scan is performed when entering a system. This is actually great. The fancy scanner animation could keep up for like 3-5 sweeps and then the scanning animation on the button could keep informing us that the scanner is running in the background. This could be set up in the Options game menu in some way.

On other things - the tractor beam sound when scooping loot from a hacked container (part of the minigame) is too loud at the moment and needs volume tuning.

Id love to test this but I simply cannot find any anons. Found 3 so far across a series of 25 system through dek and branch. Although my initial impression of finding cosmic sigs is that its now to easy.

I haven't read through the threadnaught, but have you considered adding the signatures to the list on the scanner like the on-board scanner did?

Otherwise it's just a jumble of BS in space that you can barely use.

Svo.

After testing on SiSi i can say i've got mixed feelings about this one.

On the one hand it's convenient to see how many sigs are in a system, on the other it's too easy to see how many sigs are in system. When this goes live you'll have alot of opportunity explorers seeing "Hey, there's a bunch of sigs here. I'll just click one, use the launch probes on result button and narrow it down 1/2 times to get a full hit."

Exploration as it is right now represents a sort of way of living. You actively seek out sigs, drop probes and scan it down by hand. (never was a big fan of dropping 8 probes and doing it easy mode, 4 probes 4 the win, maybe 5 to get that last % )

Exploration as it will become is all based on "Is my sensor overlay active? Cool then i can see if i can make some easy enough isk." It also makes it alot easier for those seeking explorers for pretty explosions. There's a sig, there's one and there's one and there and there, directional scan, hey a ship and boom, drop combat probes and get a hit in one maybe 2 go's. Experienced combat probers can do this already with their developed player skills. Now any simpleton with combat probes fitted can do it. Good for PvP and explosions, bad for those who spent alot of time experimenting and honing their feel and skills for the soon to be obsolete specialisation of combat probing.

All in all it's probing made for the lazy. I've scanned down more sites in so much less time it seemed like not a single sig was even difficult to begin with. Shame really.

As for the overlay itself:

Sites do not get removed from view once completed or even scanned down to 100%.

The pixelated mess that surrounds a result remains in space eventhough you've warped to a different location from when the result popped up after coming into a new system. location of the result changed, the pixel blob remains in the same relative camera position as when you first saw the result pop up in the overlay. Not a fan of the Pixel blob in my screen.

I'd have put something of a "ping" bubble ever growing as a scanner instead of the slow radarlike sweep of a system as it is right now. Kinda looks....low tech and quickly crammed together for ease.

Its not working right.
I had left my ship in space. When I logged in it did the sweep and there were sigs in the space scene, but nothing in the list. I tried hitting the "scan" button, but nothing happened. Is that now going to do nothing when probes are out?

So I jumped into a different system to see if it was related to logging in while in space. Nope, no sigs in the list. I then selected the filter "signatures" and they showed. Also if you set the filter to "signatures" then back to "show all" and you jump, it shows the sigs from the previous system.

Further testing seems to indicate the issue: the list does not populate until you change the filter setting. That is

Set filter to something that should show signatures. Jump, then scan: Nothing shows in the list (or the list shows the sigs from the previous system)
Set filter to something that should show signatures. Jump, scan, change the filter to some other setting that shows signatures: The list populates.

Edit: Bug report filed (with an alt).

^^ What they said, and ...

Hitting analyze without probes now gives the message: Communication to probes(s) failed

The initial population of the list doesn't populate the map view.
Edit: After scanning, the anoms don't show up on the map view either. Also, if you close and open the map, any sigs you found also disappear.

The list only becomes populated if you refresh (as in click) the filter.

here's my screen full of anomalies in lowsec:

BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY
CANT SEE NUFFIN
BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY

clever idea but needs a polish

All wonderful changes. I am no longer becoming sick to my stomach while exploring and spinning my camera drones in circles. I really do love the return of the spreadsheet to my scanner interface and hope it is not removed again. The new icons and animations are great.

Today's patch killed both the radial menu for the Scanner button and the sensor overlay in systems with anomalies.

We will try to get a new patch out as soon as possible.

Workaround for the radial menu, if it is stuck in open state: press ESC
Workaround for missing overlay: None (or: go to a system without anomalies).