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Karkur's Little Things blog is always like Christmas, and just as highly anticipated. Opening it is as exciting as ripping the giftwrap off the presents, and unlike Christmas, it never disappoints!

+1 to jump clones remembering their names after you use them

♥ the little things!!

Some people don't understand the concept of a team. But it would be nice to fix the siphon detection issue :)

Could the polarisation effect from jumping through the same wormhole get one of these handy cool down timers too? I'm a real fan of these since coming back to the game and they really help to keep a track of what is going on and at the moment the only notice you get that the time isn't up is when you try to jump.


edit: and whilst i think about it... can we have a radial similar to the "scanners" and "camera controls" added to the "cargo hold" button to the left of the capictor/hp rose doohicky (what do you call that thing btw?) so we can access ore hold, cargo hold, corp hanger etc. without r-click? (so cool having ore holds on miners these days!! been away for a while and it's nice to see some improvements :D)

While we are at scanner tab, can we have an option to switch off deployed probes window in it? Taking window space and in most cases is unnecessary.

This is great. No, really. All these additions in this devblog and all the others about Phoebe are great. It feels like the game is evolving.

Oh, and +1000 for the advanced search tooltip. I remember that the option is there, but somehow missed to look what it can do every time I search for stuff.

"Always show"? This release gets better every day. Phoebe is the expansion of the year!

Can we have a shortcut to use the scan button on d-scanner?

The thing with the d-scan shortcut is a bit tricky, since it seems to be so trivial to add.
To be honest, I was about to add the shortcut at one point, but after talking to some people we decided not to go with it.
It's a bit expensive on the server, and we don't want people to spam it. And I'm not talking about people purposefully spamming to bring the node down or anything like that.
But if you have a shortcut, you can program your fancy keyboard to press it regularly, which we don't think is unlikely a bunch of people would do. So let's say you have done that, you are in a system where there is no one but you, and you would normally not be d-scanning regularly, but the keyboard is just doing its thing, and you keep scanning.
Now let's say you have dozens of people in a fleet. Normally you would not have everyone in the fleet doing d-scans every 3 seconds (or whatever), but since they have programmed their keyboard to do that, they are, which can make the hamsters cry.

So basically, we are taking the safe approach here, and don't want to risk server performance by adding the shortcut as the system stands now.
Hope that makes sense

Wait, wait, wait. I thought designing game mechanics around bots was against CCP policy. I thought the way you dealt with bot users was to ban them. What's going on here? Every time you make a game change and some troll says you did it to discourage botting, a Dev says "Game developers make changes to improve the game for players. Security takes care of the bots". Now, all of a sudden the Devs are changing (or not changing) the game due to bots?

If someone uses an automatic keystroke entry system, you ban them. You do not make the rest of us suffer because of what they might do.

Then maybe you should check it out. My understanding is: You can have a fancy keyboard, you can have fancy software, but if you USE them to control the game with automatically entered keystrokes (that is, a keystroke that is entered into the game even though the user is pressing nothing), its a bannable offense.

I understand the consequences to the server due to bot use is large. The sever use per user dropped significantly when CCP started dealing with the bots. But please don't stop improving game life for real users because someone else might bot.