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The scanning window becomes too big.
When probing part of it was based on spreadsheet, you could just squeeze some columns and make the scanning window smaller keeping its minimum size. Now, when you removed "spreadsheetness" from scannig tab we can't comfortably change the width of the comumns and squeeze the scanning window.

The size of the scanning window is especially critical in WH space because there you have to keep it open all the time 23.5*7*365 for d-scanning. And making windows bigger is bad by itself.

if you plan to keep the over lay i would realy like to see all of them stay its the only good add on i have seen so far the rest of this expansion blows ass to be honest

+1

There is no range limitation within the solar system. You get all the pokemons.

It's definitely a change, but how damaging it is is a matter of opinion. It's not like the old system was like a proud and free Icelandic mini-horse roaming happily across grassy fields, when Team Five 0 suddenly appeared to trap and enslave it. It's more like we had a crippled mini-horse, that showed some signs of life, but it was clear it's running days were over. What Team Five 0 did was come to the crippled little horse and put a bullet in it's brain. Now we're in the silent moment after where what just happened is starting to sink in and each of us has to decide whether what we saw was an act of mercy or an act of evil. Meanwhile members of Team Five 0 have to decide do they want to spend resources to bring healthy mini-horses to us and how they can keep on living with their hands drenched in cute and innocent mini-horse blood.

yes but you don't have a sign saying "something is here in this clump of trees"

[rant]My appologies if this has already been covered in the comments, or in the post itself, but I am currently too tired and too drunk to read all of what was said lol.

Anyway, from the small amount of info I read on the post I have two questions which immediately came to mind.

Firstly, it was stated that the scanner performed its sweep when you entered the system in "...whatever vessel you have decided to take for a spin whether it be a pod or a the fancy new and mysterious Gnosis." Does this mean that capsules will be given the ability to do a system scan?
Because, if I remember correctly in my haze, pods currently do not have the ability to perform this action. If I were to try it right now I get, and have gotten in the past, a message which reads "Your escape-capsule does not appear to have a scanner fitted", or something of that nature.

Secondly, the 'automatic system scan' which occurs when you enter a system. Assuming this is performed when a scan capable vessel jumps into a system, what effect does warping immediately upon entering the system have?
Currently, if I were to warp and try to do a sys scan mid-warp, it would not allow it. Also, if I were to begin a sys scan when I enter a system, and then innitiate warp because I've landed in a bad bad bad very VERY bad place, the sys scanner would then complete its ten second scan and then say, 'sorry, but you cannot do that while warping......'

Sorry again if this has been covered elsewhere, but these were the first two things that came to mind when I flicked through the post.

*Removed a chunk of text I realised was a little off topic*

WRT the new system scanner: I an pleased with the idea of making pilots aware *all the time* that there is more stuff out there than just the belts and the occasional starship wreck/ abandoned research outpost, but this is really nessicary for noobies. If pilots are looking for some action then they would definately be checking sys scan whenever they undock/ jump and thus makes it kinda redundant after a certain amount of play time. As I have heard many others say, it would be great if some of these new features came with a toggle.
However, I am opposed to the change of grav sites being visable on system scanner. In my book, if you want the riches, you have to look a little harder for them, meaning probes, not sys scan. But that's just me, and I might just be a little bit threatened by what I expect ot be an increase in grav site occupants, many of which that do not know how to read a wiki article or watch a "How to..." video.

Well, I think that's all. Two questions and some feedback.

Thanks to all at CCP who spent the last day or so working hard to resolve the server and security issues.

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Agree.

I'm not that active player and I don't do that much exploration, but whenever I do it, I like the uncertainty of it.
What will I find? Will I find anything?

Now, it's more like a buying plane ticket to Paris and exploring it. Yes, I can explore it but you took the "trying to find Paris" part of exploring out of the game. In other worlds, instead of exploring we have traveling. It might bring more people to low sec (I bet that's one of the goals) as I do see people "peaking" to a low sec and then next one and so on but it does require a lot of tweaking in my opinion.

And I'll join in/ jump in with the same question.

Do we have scan on every ship or just the one with special mods? (Probe launcher perhaps? )

I don't have much complaints against the new overlay, it's at least decent, and it could lead to a much cooler intel tool than local, in the future.

What I don't understand was the need to introduce stupid changes to scanning, like the inability to lose probes. One thing is to cater to the newbie, another is to cater to the careless.For gods sake, why would people even consider to manufacture probes if there is no way to lose them?

Also, if I have to retrieve my probes automatically, I shouldn't be allowed to jump out of the system until they have actually returned, instead of having them magically appear into my cargohold...

When I enter a new system, an automatic sensor sweep will take place stretching across your space view moving horizontally.

When I disable the sensor overlay by pressing the eye icon on the top in the new Radial menu for probing,

Will the automatic sensor sweep be disabled to every time I enter a new system?


I do not want to be forced by CCP to "enjoy" the sweep every time I enter a new system

With Incarna we mandatory had to "enjoy" the new visual stuff by CCP, and we all know how that was received.