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Scan animation too much

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Lykouleon
Noble Sentiments
Second Empire.
#221 - 2013-08-08 18:07:39 UTC
It's not that I care whether or not the animation happens, I'm cool with that. The sole thing I can't stand about the scanning system is that it takes click precedent over all in-space brackets, regardless of whether you're directly hovering over a bracket and not the actual anomaly or not. I don't particularly care about anomalies when I'm PVPing, and not being able to quickly click a close bracket upon a jump-in because a useless ****ing anomaly on the scanner is taking my clicks instead is annoying as hell.

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Dyvim Slorm
Coven of the Morrigan
#222 - 2013-08-08 18:27:01 UTC
It really does need an option to turn it off, it can get annoying if you have no interest in anomalies
Regan Rotineque
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#223 - 2013-08-08 20:25:38 UTC
Asked for off button when testing......asked for off button on TQ

Asking for off button again.

Only needs to be on when I want or actually care to go scanning.
Arduemont
Rotten Legion
#224 - 2013-08-08 22:10:13 UTC
I think it should be off by default and you have to turn it on. That makes infinitely more sense.

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Yogsoloth
Fliet Pizza Delivery
Of Essence
#225 - 2013-08-09 13:42:08 UTC
Of all the proposed changes or fixes over the years or on the new big list never once did I see anyone say;

"What I really need is an automatic scanner to sweep the system after every jump or undock"

For those of us that don't explore it is a total and unnecessary annoyance that just won't seem to go away.

Make it stop already.
Stitcher
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#226 - 2013-08-09 14:12:19 UTC
So frakking IGNORE IT.

great ghost of the skies people, it's just a background thing. It is literally the easiest thing in the game to ignore as far as I'm concerned. If you're finding it even remotely intrusive then that is because you WANT it to be intrusive. you're jabbing a fork into your own arm and then complaining that it hurts

The "off" button is in your head. Go ahead and press it.

AKA Hambone

Author of The Deathworlders

Tlat Ij
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#227 - 2013-08-09 14:12:39 UTC
CCP Greyscale wrote:
Our current plan is to leave it as-is for a few weeks and then see if it's still bothering people. It's very hard in advance to separate the things that will annoy people for a week and then stop being an issue from the things that will persist in annoying people forever. If you look at the initial feedback for the new font, for example, there was a near-riot when it was deployed - but if you go back and look at the old font now it's horrible.

My beef is that I turned it off and it doesn't turn off! I can see how its useful when I use it on my scanning character, but when I turn it off because I am not looking for sites it needs to ******* turn off!
Seetesh
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#228 - 2013-08-09 15:00:35 UTC
Octoven wrote:
Respen Seriavo wrote:
Every... Single.... Jump.... I know you are proud of your new feature but is it really necessary to make my screen flash every 20 seconds during a long trip? I've only been back in game about an hour and a half and I cringe every time I see this animation. I'll give you that I thought "this is neat" to myself as I left a station for the first time ans saw it. But seriously, it sucks.... I'd much prefer to see it when called upon.

Please give me a way to turn it off or better yet, make it go away unless I decide to do a manual scan. Thanks!


You should have seen it BEFORE they changed it, it was bright green. Be thankful they toned the color down some and get over it.


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Respen Seriavo
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#229 - 2013-08-09 16:19:09 UTC
Nice to see this thread alive and kicking, was just playing today and it annoyed me as usual. Came here in hopes someone else was still complaining and this thread was on the first page. Good to see that others are just as annoyed, a little bummed it hasn't warranted an off switch yet though.
Stitcher
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#230 - 2013-08-09 16:21:34 UTC
Frankly, at this point I would hope that CCP's default response to all the whiners who demand an off switch for every last feature of the game is "lol, no. HTFU."

AKA Hambone

Author of The Deathworlders

Guttripper
State War Academy
Caldari State
#231 - 2013-08-09 16:45:13 UTC
Stitcher wrote:
Frankly, at this point I would hope that CCP's default response to all the whiners who demand an off switch for every last feature of the game is "lol, no. HTFU."

Because CCP knows that if they do not force everything onto the players - including that star gate warp effect, then these subpar features in this half-assed ~expansion~ would have had many, many people turn them off after a day or so of "Ooh, ahh, nice..." *turns them off permanently*.
Gun Dulf
#232 - 2013-08-09 21:52:56 UTC
Stitcher wrote:
lol etc


CCPs default response is " " so i´ll take the part of servicing you: lol, no. HTFU.

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Stitcher
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#233 - 2013-08-10 00:37:22 UTC
As it should be, really. I happen to think people need to learn how to ignore features they don't use rather than needing a special "DURR I NOT DO SCAN GAEMS" button. CCP meanwhile need to keep up the appearance of being professionals. The poor bar stewards.

Happily for me, as a player rather than a dev, I'm at liberty to say that if the system DRADIS sweep bothers somebody, then the irritation they feel is self-inflicted, and as such they need to learn how to not be a colossal infant.

AKA Hambone

Author of The Deathworlders

RangerGord
Rothschild's Sewage and Septic Sucking Services
The Possum Lodge
#234 - 2013-08-10 03:26:10 UTC
The issue i have with their standard response of "we will see how many people are still complaining about this in a couple of months" is awful... since most of the people that don't agree with many of these changes were told countless times on the test server feedback that "you just don't like change, so accept it cause its not changing"... even though they were just changing for the sake of change.

To give it a couple months and see how many people are still complaining is not a good solution by any means, all that means is they are just taking the safe bet that everyone will get tired of them ignoring the feedback as usual and eventually give up trying to improve underdeveloped/unwanted/unneeded features. Like the font, it was smaller, crisper, much cleaner, and i didn't have to have all my overview tabs expanded halfway across the screen to read everything even when scaled to 90%. We just got tired of dealing with CCP's "we know better than you" attitude towards feedback on new things.

For anyone that says otherwise, I dare you to find a dev post in the test server feedback that is supportive of the feedback instead of shutting people down or responding to dumb off topic posts with even dumber more off topic responses for the sake of putting a dev tag on a thread to say they are active in it.

My faith in CCP's acceptance of feedback was pretty much permanently lost after the unified inventory debacle where 95% of test feedback said it was nowhere near ready... and when it hit the live server after a mere 2 weeks of testing they found out: "omgwtfbbq, maybe all those people that told us it wasn't ready were right, we will get this working, its our highest priority..." but then several months later key elements were still not right and then they just gave up because they had other things to break and change for no reason.

So they have created the environment where feedback is not accepted and turned down as purely resistance to change, this type of environment does not usually tend to give people a reason to continue providing feedback after long periods of not being listened to.
Gun Dulf
#235 - 2013-08-10 09:17:52 UTC
Stitcher wrote:
DURR.


Derp.

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Marlona Sky
State War Academy
Caldari State
#236 - 2013-08-10 09:30:57 UTC
I still really like the scan animation.
Rhea Rankin Nolen
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#237 - 2013-08-10 09:32:10 UTC
Stitcher wrote:
As it should be, really. I happen to think people need to learn how to ignore features they don't use rather than needing a special "DURR I NOT DO SCAN GAEMS" button. CCP meanwhile need to keep up the appearance of being professionals. The poor bar stewards.

Happily for me, as a player rather than a dev, I'm at liberty to say that if the system DRADIS sweep bothers somebody, then the irritation they feel is self-inflicted, and as such they need to learn how to not be a colossal infant.


There there son..once you get to pvp-ing and learn to use the D-scan like all the big boys do, then you will see why new scanner effect gets in the way.
Daily Operation
420 Enterprises.
#238 - 2013-08-11 01:49:50 UTC
When you jump into a system and one of the signature reticules covers a celestial, you have to wait for it to disappear before you can click it to warp or d-scan. This is extremely frustrating. If I wanted to know what signatures were in system, I'd OPEN THE PROBE SCANNER. This along with the jukebox removal is an absolutely mind-boggling change.
Lugalbandak
Doomheim
#239 - 2013-08-11 09:55:50 UTC
Respen Seriavo wrote:
Every... Single.... Jump.... I know you are proud of your new feature but is it really necessary to make my screen flash every 20 seconds during a long trip? I've only been back in game about an hour and a half and I cringe every time I see this animation. I'll give you that I thought "this is neat" to myself as I left a station for the first time ans saw it. But seriously, it sucks.... I'd much prefer to see it when called upon.

Please give me a way to turn it off or better yet, make it go away unless I decide to do a manual scan. Thanks!


dont whine , i think it looks neat , keep it

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Gun Dulf
#240 - 2013-08-12 14:00:55 UTC
Lugalbandak wrote:


dont whine , i think it looks neat , keep it


Stop whining, it looks crappy, make it optional.

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