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When setting up a new formation it is very tricky to do something symmetrical. Would be nice if there is a standard probe launch formation were all 8 probes are at the same place on top of the sun or your own ship and after that its easy to move the probes into the desired formation you want to save them in. If you try make a save without probes in space it don't work right now. maybe make it possible to save that and when you then use that save, all probes end up on the sun on top of each other so you have a good benchmark to create a new formations.

Another great improvement to the probing system, well done CCP.

Much respect from Australiaaaaa

While I do agree with the changes, there are a couple of observations:

1) Is there only a single custom formation? I hope we will be able to have AT LEAST two custom formations. Not everybody is completely focused on a specific scanning activity, and different formations have different purposes.

2) Scanning is incredibly dumbed down. Honestly these days I am ashamed to have the word "explorer" in my bio, it's so easy that it is embarassing... I suggest you listen to what is written down here:



Also, remove the instaautorecall. Autorecall in itself is fine, as long as it entails WAITING at gate/station for probes to come back. Of course it should be switchable beacuse if you live in dangerous areas you'd rather being able to gtfo asap, instead than get stuck on a gate waiting for a few probes to come back.

I think CCP thinks the old 'learning curve of eve' diagram was a complaint.

When i joined eve it was because it was difficult and beautiful. I had to work and spend time to master the different aspects of eve and I loved it when suddenly new parts of eve became available.

Now it seems that CCP wants to give everything to everyone within the first month or so of playing and remove all the racial differences between ship classes.

We chose eve because it was a challenge.

CCP STOP TAKING THAT AWAY FROM US!

We realize you think that spoon feeding people will keep the new player base growing faster than the 'bittervets' leave, but in a year you'll just have a lot of year old characters going somewhere else because they didn't invest the effort into eve that many of us did who have played for years.

I have a real problem with the way scanning anomalies is currently implemented as far as wormholes go. Scanning inside wormholes entails a lot of going into and out of various exit and entrance wormholes to investigate where they go. Upon reentering the top most wormholes that one starts in all the anomalies are reset and the ones you have already scanned down are completely indistinguishable form unscanned anomalies. When a wormhole has in excess of 16 anomalies this problem gets seriously problematic figuring which ID matches which anomalies. As more exit and entrance wormholes are discovered the ID numbers increase exponentially. Keeping track of all the ID on paper is about the only way to get his accomplished.

The fix for this is to make the person scanning not loose their scanned results upon exiting the wormhole to investigate and reentering to continue scanning or investigate more exit/entrance holes. Reentering to have all the things you scanned show up as unknown all over again is just pure frustration. You then have to correlate the written down ID number with any saved bookmarks or unsaved ID's.

This current method makes exploration completely SUCK and needs to be addressed. Rescanning or writing down all ID's is tedious and not a welcome adventure.

Not sure if intentional or not. When scanning anomalies on singularity (build 8.33.590979), the map only remembers the "red dot" of the last scan that had a result, not the best. I can do a wide "pinpoint formation" scan and get dots on the map for all the signatures, if I then move my probes to the edge so only one probe overlaps one of the signatures I get a "red sphere" for the one signature and dots for the rest. if I then move all my probes off all the signatures, the sphere persists for the one signature and dots for the rest.

This is frustrating when you have a wormhole with lots of signatures it's when moving probes around to transition from dots back to rings and spheres, even though you have had a previous "better" result. With the new system on singularity, it would be better for me to get a wide spread and dots for everything, then go down super narrow to avoid hitting any other sigs, to preserve their dots, instead of narrowing the probes down in steps.

I would like it if every scan could compare the signal percentage to previous ones and only keep the "best" sphere/ring/dot instead of the "last".

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err... theyre not bugs.

Not only was it acknowledged as a bug, it is even supposed to be fixed:

ohh had never considered the 1st one a bug, always worked around it (with 2 sigs with the same id appearing - had always viewed it as an artifact where the sig is midway between the 2 spots, so its never really affected me.