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It's linkable for ages now because officially someone ****** up at copying some things to somewhere else, it's unobtainable and probably only here to blow the minds of all those not-knowing.

It's a reward for participants in the FanFest PvP tournament. And some RP guy who I forget the name of who already has one.

Getting the additional probe skills to 5 allows you to use the T2 variants of the mid slot scan modules. The modules have twice the bonus of T1.

What about the Talocan ships in certain WH sites?

And I am no fan of the instant recall of probes as it sometimes is used as a tactic to leave some combat probes behind as deterrent in 'our' WH system when scouting in another. Upon return the get reconnected again etc. Please leave that option open to us.

Exploration expansion \o/

Dose this mean that a solo wormhole miner in a grav has no chance? Say a legion or loki enters the hole and hits up his odessy and wow there is a grav and warps to a soon to be dead retriver. The Miner doesn't even have a chance to see probes on D-Scan and bug out to the pos. Well I thought they were trying to encourage miners to take risks not comit suicide or quit mining all together.

LOL.

Devblog sez: This is no easy task, as this has to be accomplished while at the same time retaining the functionality of the scan probing as a whole for other users of the system, such as veteran explorers, wormhole dwellers and scouts. While the focus this time around was on accessibility and basic mechanics, we feel this is only the tip of the iceberg and the changes we’re making now give us an opportunity to expand the exploration mechanic at the higher end, adding more depth of gameplay, in the future.

Translation: Being in charge of changing an entire system is hard work when you don't know how to use it to its fullest, nor what it is truly capable of, and don't bother to make serious inquiries of people who do. Also, we don't care about the exploration mechanic at the 'higher end,' and 'just the tip' would be a more clever analogy where 'veterans' are concerned. (Analogy. You see what I did there. Also, no need to whitewash; this system is pretty much finished for the foreseeable future. You know it, and we know it.)

Devblog sez: There are two pre-set formations coming in Odyssey for players to use – Spread (probes aligned to cover a large area) and Pinpoint (probes aligned to focus on one point). These are not intended to be the absolute best possible formations, but rather a solid starting point for budding explorers.

Translation: We don't actually know what 'the best' formations are, since we don't actually use this system on a regular basis. (I herd u liek DSP formations and running mixed probe sets. Here, have a lolli and shut up.)

Devblog sez: The probes launch into space next to your ship, but the formation view in the solar system map is centered around the sun and is not indicating the current position of the probes until you hit scan and they warp to the positions you've determined.

Translation: This is kind of a silly graphical disconnect, but since datamining of feedback threads has determined that EVE players can't read the overview, they'll never notice that the probes still spawn right next to the ship, regardless of where we show them on the system map, so we better tell them. (Srs jab at folks who have been crying about this the whole time without noticing that the probes never spawned at the sun.)

Devblog sez: The recall and expire options have been changed a bit – recall is now instantaneous and happens automatically on system jump or dock. Probes still have a timer, but instead of being lost when the timer is out, they automatically recall instead. The system remembers your last probe setup before they were automatically recalled so they can be quickly deployed again in the same pattern (by activating the launcher). No more forsaken probes in space![/quote]

Translation: We don't use the probe system, and therefore have no earthly idea why someone would want to deliberately leave probes in space. Also, a pox on your probe market.

Devblog sez: The scan result list is seeing the biggest amount of changes. The progress towards getting a warpable signature has been made much more visually clear, as well as indicating the difference between your current and last scan results. This allows players to get a better sense of how well they’re progressing towards the signature they’re focusing on.

Translation: Numbers are hard, yo. Intense data mining has revealed that the playerbase is largely illiterate and mathematically challenged, and cannot discern the difference between 10% and 80%, we have partnered with Crayola to bring you colored bars. We herd u liek colored barz, now here they arez. (Seriously, this is nice and all, but your phrasing makes it sound like people can't even read.)

Devblog sez: There are a few things that we want to get in, but aren’t able to in Odyssey. We aim to get these things in for a point release, but can’t promise it.

Translation: Good luck ever seeing these scraps of functionality.

Devblog sez: Custom formations – Odyssey will only have a very basic formation setup. We want to expand this and allow players to save their own formations and support formations with variable number of probes in them.

Translation: Probably the single biggest thing that anyone who probes asked for, and we can't deliver it. Instead, you will have Pres Butan, Vomit Probes.

Devblog sez: That’s it for Team Super Friends, we hope you enjoy these changes and have a great summer!

Translation: Let them eat cake.

Anyone care to confirm or deny whether new ship restrictions on combat sites are going live?

What happened to the plan to be able to access all POS structures from anywhere within the POS shields?

DScan is not going anywhere.