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I really miss being able to scan down two sites at the same time. new scanning makes it stupidly hard to do that now.

The overview bug is annoying

So... moving the scanner overlay to a player-activated button in the scanning interface, which when activated reveals all the anomalies in the system but still requires probes to be launched in order to detect signatures?

Naw, it sounds like it would take too much development time to incorporate.

i think you need to train irony lvl1

Was there a stealth buff to the clone soldier rats in today's patch? All of the sudden they are target painting and are a hell of a lot faster.

Well, the exploration has now been overly dummyfied.

I don't have problems with the most of the other updates, but doing a lot of exploration sites and scanning, it is now too easy.

The automatic recover of probes. If you are too lazy to press the button of collecting them they ought to stay there.
Besides which it can unnerve some people seeing probes in space but no one else visible. Especially in wormhole
space.
But that's not really the problem so much as making lazy people more lazy.

What I'd like is to have the option of how many durned probes I launch. I do not need and I do not want to launch eight probes every time I press the activation of the probe launcher.
And then I need to recover 4 of the probes that I don't need and want every time. Sure I could only field 4 probes in the launcher but what's the point of having a probe launcher with a large bay if you ever going to need 8 probes to begin with? Why leave the extended probe launcher being able to field 80 probes when you will ever, now more or less, need 8 probes since you recover your probes automatically when you leave a system.
Only way to leave probes out there in space and loose them is to either disconnect from them manually or they expire while you probe.

Anyways, I'd love to see option somewhere where you can choose how many probes you launch in one go. An option to do this. Something along the lines of launch single or launch (enter number here) probes. Something other then only 8 probes in one go.
Annoying having to recover 4 of them each time because they do not align correctly any time I launched 8 and they muck up the scan view of where I want them to be. And since they do not align right I need to move them around manually one by one anyway so it is oh so very annoying.

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And then there's the undock button. Thank you for moving that to a very inconvinient location without the option of not choosing your self where it is.
It would be greatly appreciated if you could make the undock button, and why not the "go to captain's quarters" button as well, configurable where you want it to be.
Say it could have a choice of being attached to the Station Info screen or you could have it attached to the neocom panel where it used to be.
Now I have all my buttons from the neocom, that I mostly use, on left but the undock button ALL the way to the top right. Very annoying to drag mouse all that way when it used to be just there below what you needed most of the time anyway.

I could move the neocom to the right hand side but just as well you could make the button location cofigurable. This way those who like it where it is can leave it there and those who want it to be part of the neocom tab could have it (or them) there.

Also, it would be very nice to have the log off button back. Now if you launch via the launcher you either have quit or log off safely and it won't allow to log off safely if you are using a cloaking device at the time.

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And I miss the wonderful start-up screen backgrounds with something going on in them from the non-launcher start-up screen. Started doing the non-launcher start since the launcher is sometimes a bit iffy on its workings.
Sad to see the backgrounds go away. Loved those.

I can but hope you get some sense back into the probing because right now it is too easy. And I'd like to have that docking button where it was, thank you. :)

Fixed for consistency.

In wormholes it's a definite tactic to have your probe window open to look for any opening holes.

In case CCP reads this and do not understand what is happening I will outline it here:

1, Scan down your hole
2, Close your static hole, alternatively put a cloaky scout on it
3, Have one person keeping check on the probe window. To be sure have the person click show anomalies on and off every 10 seconds
4, Run sites/mine/what-ever
5, If and when a new signature shows in the probe window: retreat to POS
6, Scan the new sig down
7, If sig is a wormhole log off or ship up (few seem to do the last)


Before Odessey one thing that really did set wormhole space from empire space was the very real and palatable lack of situational awareness. I w-space a fleet might be right next to you and you'd never know. The lack of local made that possible.

Now, people will say that before Odessey you could do what the probe scanner does now with Deep Space Probes. That is correct. But you actually did have to do something. Fit a ship, launch probe(s), arrange them, hit scan. Few people did and more fights happened.

The last place in the Eviverse that the unknown was really around the corner, is gone. I mourn it. Both the exhilaration of pouncing on unsuspecting people and the terror of being jumped while not at all prepared. I'll probably miss the latter most.

BUG

Since odyssey I get corrupt/disappearing station menus on one of my machines (I5 Win7 laptop), my older desktop with a separate graphics card is fine.


EXPLORING

The issue with exploring for new players in the past was everything in hisec was already taken and you did not have the skills to explore losec safely. If anything the changes have made this situation worse. The exploration sites in hisec disappear even faster.

If you really want to encourage brand new players to learn exploration seed some exploring mission agents around hisec that give out exploration related missions with gate style entrances, some combat, some hacking challenges and a level of reward similar to distribution missions.

Oh and to avoid confusion, yes, the Lootkakke is one of the thickest and most unwanted things in the history of games.