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Is Odyssey going ahead on the 4th?

Thanks!

Cool, thanks :)

<3 the cross integration of the overlay and the map. I'm looking forward to playing with this.

The sensor overlay has nothing to do with skill levels. That applies to the aftermath when you try to probe down a signature. AFAIK we are not giving any skill relating to the actual probe scanning although the exact effect is changing somewhat. But that is Team Super Friends territory, as they implemented those changes.

I think this will achieve your goals for the feature quite nicely, but it also highlight one of the problems with the current exploration. That being the feeling there actually isn't anything hidden to find and therefore it's not really exploring. All potential sites are immediately visible to everyone just by entering the system and even the likely locations for sigs are now shown without any effort. Since there isn't even the pretense of anything hidden anymore to find and reveal, we aren't really explorers we are treasure hunters, that delve to sites everyone already knows about and sees.

The above isn't precisely an issue with just the new system, but it really brings it to the forefront. Exploration usually means going of the beaten path and seeing if you can find something of interest not immediately visible to the people just passing through. You've now officially made the equivelant of glowing arrows pointing every player to the "hidden" items you've sprinkeled throughout your game, when before people actually had to prepare and spend some effort to achieve the same. If there is one major downside you've introduced with these changes, this would be it and I hope future iterations to the system try to bring actual exploration back to the game.

Actually if u don't deactivate probes they'll still magically appear in your cargo. That is bad

Wrong, that just means that if you manually deactivate your probes, they don't auto-recall, so you can still leave behind probes in tactical positions for later.

The teleporting on recall and auto-recall on dock, system change or log-off remains.

Edit - Actually hang on, maybe I'm reading it wrong. They still auto-recalled on the test server as of yesterday, hrm.

Only issue is that it's automatic upon undocking.

I feel that will get old quick. A simple toggle (similar to the current safety) will save a lot of complaining and preserve the shiny-new-feeling of the sensor overlay effect.

Tsk Tsk CCP. You guys and your dual-tanked ships (picture in dev blog). No wonder there are so many noobs doing this and thinking its cool... I would offer to send those fits to the graveyard but last time I fought one of you on SiSi, I killed him and then he Doomsday'd me with his pod :(

Curious as to the nature of some of the ideas that didn't make it because they were "bad". Can you shed light on that?