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I hate to be a 'naysayer', again, after all these years, but:

It appears that CCP has managed to release another upgrade that doesn't add very much to the game. At the same time, they are still ignoring problems that are more than a year old.

@CCP: Do you ever plan to fix anything simple, like stacking?

The POS access/move stuff change has been the best thing so far. The 'launch 8 probes' and probing mechanic itself is a much needed improvement over senseless repitition. Even though I lament the loss of the DSP, the decreased time required to actually identify sites has been much appreciated.

Now onto the bad stuff.

The undock button move has been incredibly aggravating as I have 3 years of muscle memory going to that special part of the neocom that is now sadly blank. Almost as aggravating is the damn CQ button is right next to it. I don't use CQ. I don't have a need for it in its current state. Right now it's an annoyance whenever I misclick the new undock button position. I can't turn it off without also disabling the #1 eve pasttime of ship spinning as well.

Spew container mechanic: Do not want. After having played the player SP captcha 'minigame' that takes up a chunk of my screen, I have to double click on little moving objects for a chance at maybe getting the loot my cargo scanner told me was in it.

Re minigame SP captcha: I am now going to be required to train two ridiculously niche skills (archeology and hacking) in order to have a reasonable chance at getting the loot in low/null radar/mag sites. 22 days with my current implants/remap...to get a chance...at maybe getting some worthwhile loot.

Exploration has been a crapshoot. With the addition of faction tower bpcs as some sort of carrot to actually do it...it's on the same level as blowing 50-100m on somer blink hoping to get that magic ticket for a couple billion item in my book. No thank you.

Also, with this improved probing system in place, isn't it about time d-scan automatically refreshed every couple of seconds? It's bad enough the elite pvpers of lowsec can get a probe in for a gank mildly quickly before the probing changes, now it's even faster. I mean, chances are if you were in lowsec and knew what the d-scan was, how to use it, etc, you would also be refreshing it every few seconds depending on paranoid you were. The ignorant would be no better or worse off if it were automatically refreshed. Why shouldn't this be automated to refresh?

So from a quality of life viewpoint, this expansion thus far has been 'meh'.

Eh?

My Feedback

Complaints and grievances
1) Do something with the jump animation, primarily the snapping of the camera through the gate; or allow us to turn it off. The Speed at which the camera moves can instill feelings of vertigo and cause headaches for users.

2) The new scanner.....how about bring back the old GUI for the scanner it was compact and efficient. the new scanner gui doesnt have expandable brackets and we cannot ignore useless sites. The new overlay / scanner heads up thing is neat, but the scanner GUI itself is miles in the wrong direction, and probably didn't need recoded in the first place.

3) The moved undock button, could we get an option to put the old one back? I mean its just an empty useless place now that we all get depressed when it doesn't do anything.

4) Radial menu for directional scanner, this is one of the few things i do not have hotkeyed, i click it and have certain expectations of a directional scanner window popping up. the only thing that was added was the toggle overlay which quite honestly could be just given its own button, and the other 3 are 3 tabbed things within the scanner.

5) default camera tracking on selected item, keep having to turn it off.

6) skill change completed, while some aspects of this are good the destroyer and battlecruiser changes currently only widens the gap for new players to older players. This is in simliar theory to the sensor compensation skills, which are an indirect nerf to ECM and and indirect buff to hard to probe ships. And i still believe these skills should be removed and refunded in exchange for an ECM nerf.

7) Extra Materials on things, It's my understanding that the extra materials portion on blueprints has been added to prevent the exploitation of the transition to a higher material cost. By that theory one would expect the extra materials to be phased out after a period of time and added into the standard mineral cost.

8) Scorpion Cost, For a ship that has been referred to as a coffin i really can't see any justification for the cost increase on this for as much change as its received and the amount of being primary it is going to be. Can't see it being buffed much more for the sake of imbalance either, just cut some of the fat off the production, i mean ECM's been nerfed enough already right?

9) nerf afk cloaky camping, this broken mechanic of login go to work come back and gank someone after an infinite period of time is an exploit and should be bannable until you get off your lazy bums and fix it.

10) XL BLASTER OPTIMAL RANGE LESS THAN XL AUTOCANNON OPTIMAL RANGE?!?!?!?! WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?

Props, Good job etc.

1) Faction BC's! (when do we get the pirate ones?)

2) hooray preset probing grids, wait do i like this? i mean i already knew how to do a probing grid, now its just easier, less personal and anyone can do it.

3) yay a mini-game

4) yay revamped battleships!

5) yay outpost upgrades

6) yay nullsec industry buffs, mining, ice mining, etc, now fix the afk cloaking.

7) Finally changing the production roles so anyone with one role can't cancel all production jobs.

8) reduction in resist % per level, this is overall a good thing, BUT i would argue that HICTORs should retain thier 5% bonus as it is a needed class specific bonus.

I know what you mean and I agree. I believe every long term EVE Online player can list at least a dozen things which really need to be changed or improved. If I count right this was the third time CCP re-designed the undock buttom and I ask myself "Really? These things are your priority? Do you do not know for what you should spend my money?"

Indeed would it avoid many critics if CCP could let the player decide how they use functions like the scanner or give new functions more versatility and customizability. Most things serve only the show effect or are cosmetical changes ("The war on loading bars" (CCP Soundwave)). They should not be the priority if there are so many important things which should be improved. Many outdated mechanics as example. Do not understand me wrong, some cosmetical changes are necessary in my eyes. The re-design of the ships like the Apoc. Many of them are very ugly. But were the radial menu, the replacement of the undock buttom or the new jump effect really things people asked for?

In my eyes they could make one or more expansions only with the revision of the game instead of introducing twice a year half cooked contents.

-) why in hell did you move the undock button on the right side? its was fine on the bottom left corner for 10 years and now it has to be on top right corner? Is this the needed major improvement? ... Take it back please!

-) the option to right click your ship in your hangar and have options like "leave ship" was good, maybe explain why you took it away. Or better, give it back!

-) the camera is really annoying atm

i like the new scanner but there needs to be a option to turn it off

the right click on ship in hangar is annoying not to have as just to get out of my ship i now need to open up the inventory window

enjoying the new jump effects on gates and jb's but it would have been nice to put a option on the radial for jumping through the jump bridge (but only when you are with in say 10 km max and it will move your ship to within 2.5km )

I like the new hacking/archaelogoy minigame, but it seems to have broken the respawn of the archaelogy containers in COSMOS sites. I don't know if this is by intention, but there is now no way of telling which cans I have already visited, and which have already been hacked.

Filtering does not include types of anomalies, such as combat and/or ore sites. So that is broken.

I assume that most players hate globalization which tries to standardize everything so why do we follow these stupid bureaucrats of the world since we come here to find what we are trying to flee?

Could you please point out to me the ergonomics and advantage of being unable to use the "Right clic" ?

Now, what will happen to the players who only live for blueprint and who can't no more find ice in High Sec, Oh ?! yes they have to join an alliance !!! Terrific !…….. And if not ?, they have to cancel their subscription ?

Isn't it possible to think in terms of Ergonomics and environment in relation to the players or not ??