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Please make your "dynamic transitions" effect optional as any other visual effects.

Because:

a) me and some other persons don't want to see it.

b) when you see it 50 times/hour, you go mad.

Same thing with scanner overlay, but since it doesn't have going through the pipe visual effect, it doesn't annoy that much.

I closed an office the other day and DIDN"T EVEN REALIZE IT.

And I almost did it again just now.

It's not only that it's not an optimal location, it is the default button and tabbable. So if you hit the wrong key combinations it comes up asking "Are you sure you want to close this office!"

Please fix this ASAP so I don't close my offices anymore because of poor UI design :(

I just recently bought EVE on Steam sale. I read your Sensor Overlay article before playing and thought, this is great feature, I will be an explorer 100%. So began my Exploration as a new player.

First I want to start by saying, I think its great way to find exploration points for me. I don't know what it was like beforehand but I think the way its set up is great, but it needs work yet, I felt the need to give feedback so you can maybe add a few things that would make exploration more enjoyable.

As you can probably guess, I found out starting off with exploration as a means to make money full time shortley ended as I began to realize that in a five system radius there was only around 1 data site to be found every few hours. I would like to see this changed to somehow to make it more comparable to other carrers?

I found myself arriving too late to some of them after spending around 10-20 mins trying to find some of these valuable data sites. Its a long time to invest into something with little reward comparable to mining. I found you have to be the first one there also or the 20 mins or so you spent finding that data site is all been wasted.

I guess the wasted time with no reward can be said also for wormholes too, I found myself spending way too much time tracking K162 wormholes and had no reward for it (10-20 mins each). So the payout after about a week so far has been around 3 million ISK with many hours invested time looking for data sites (did not see any relic sites).

I would have liked to have recieved a reward somewhat comparable to mining, so I actually very rarely scan for signatures anymore now because the time doesnt equal the reward. I can mine scordite for around 29k a minute with my venture and it pays about 1 million ISK a load for a full 30 mins of mining.

I guess maybe if it was atleast 6-10 million a data or relic site find at the current rate of finding the sites, it would be worth it to me because of the many wormholes and combat sites, or getting to them late, that took 20 mins each time.

I guess thats all I had to say about the system. I think the scaning itself is fun, but basicly I think the reward has to be higher for doing it, so that it would be a comparable alternative to mining or even atleast half of that, I would propose either a increase in data and relic sites found or alternativly have the rewards increased for the current rate of finding these sites?

My two cents feedback as a new player. Thanks for listening.

Edit: Just wanted to ask if maybe a feature that would let you remember the locations as green and already scanned and saved into the overlay so every time you dock or zone back and forth it doesnt have to be scaned to find again? (ie. like when JXE-456 has been scanned, maybe every time you re-enter the system it shows up on scanner as scanned already)

And i stopped reading there.... try running missions, thats really your thing.

With the old system you would not even consider being an explorer, because the old system was not semi-automatic as this one is, and even so you complain about making too much effort and receiving few rewards...

CCP, this will be the future form now on, mission runners complaining about effort and rewards... one day you will have to turn the scanning system from semi-automatic into.... automatic.

this is my two cents a few hours before my accounts expire.

o7
Fon

PS - fellow capsuller Roger Adama, you are not doing anything wrong.
But exploration should be for explorers, the ones who enjoy the thrill of exploration, not for the ones who hate it and simply care for shiny rewards. It was CCP who messed up, not you.

So, in a patch soon there's going to be a tick box to turn off the initial sweep for signatures and anomalies everytime you enter a system, right? And the noise, the noise! DUUUURH DUUURRH BEEP BEEP DUUURRRRRHHHHHH everytime I enter system.

There will be a option to disable that automatic sweep right? Say, in the scanner window, or on the HUD options. "Disable Auto Scanner". So that it only activates when I want that information, right?

Right?

To be clear - I 100% like the exploration sweep feature and support it's introduction.

However, it's like the Market screen popping up when I enter system "These are the items available in system! Check them out whoop!" or your contracts screen opening up and being all like "Bro, check out these contracts in here!".

Everytime I enter system, I don't want to browse the market, I don't want to see what anomalies are present I don't want to see what contracts are available. I want to do the task I came in to do - whatever that task is - and I'll access the relevant information for that task as I need it.

@Devs,

Perhaps it might be a good idea to make an appearance and respond to the less hysterical gripes? Some of them are (IMHO) important and legitimate. Even if it's just to list the complaints and let us know you are aware of them and thinking about them.

Please put the exploration back in exploration and don't broadcast when and where to drop probes. Everything else is acceptable (again IMHO) and the minigame is a big improvement.

I don't. It completely undermines w-space life.

Unknown space is meant to hold the unknown. By showing all the signatures in the system upon every system transition there is no sense of exploration at all. Having new signatures pop up automatically also denies being able to surprise any capsuleer who previously griped about having to update d-scan occasionally. They can now just see that a new wormhole has appeared.

Have you ever jumped to a null-sec system and seen all the ratting/mining carebears hide in a tower until you've gone? They use local for that purpose.

W-spacers used to hide when d-scan showed ships, probes. Now they'll hide when a new signature appears. The discovery scanner is the antithesis to the information denial that defines w-space life. It needs to be disabled, at least for w-space systems.

Sweeping for anoms is OK, though. They've always been easy to find. However, I do hope they allow it to be turned off.

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