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Alia Ravenswing
DARK HAT
#1 - 2014-12-26 06:54:44 UTC
I suggest an option to right click on a signature and have the current probe group, auto center on it, instead of making pilots move them.

A lot of the probe work has already been cleaned up already. This final step simply would let you scan more quickly. Instead of spending time moving your probes around in 3d, you can just right click on the signature you are currently trying to scan.

What do all of you think?
Xercodo
Cruor Angelicus
#2 - 2014-12-26 07:31:10 UTC
Nah this is pushing a little too far into dumbing down territory.

The effort to move probes to a signature are minimal compared to the old pre-formation system.

The Drake is a Lie
Alia Ravenswing
DARK HAT
#3 - 2014-12-26 07:34:37 UTC
Xercodo wrote:
Nah this is pushing a little too far into dumbing down territory.


You say that now, but when you spend some time in a Class 6 wormhole or even in Thera, there is a lot of scanning to be done and it can take hours.
Alvatore DiMarco
Capricious Endeavours Ltd
#4 - 2014-12-26 09:39:07 UTC
CCP has stated on previous occasions that the time it takes to scan is part of how scanning - and the reward from that - is balanced.

You're not going to get them to let you scan things down in less than a third of the current time - especially with how overpowered this would make combat scanning.
Dave kazkade
Lethal Devotion
Escalation Theory
#5 - 2014-12-26 11:01:05 UTC
This would make scanning signatures too easy with little to no work. -1
Rivr Luzade
Coreli Corporation
Pandemic Legion
#6 - 2014-12-26 11:22:47 UTC
Read this and use the search function.

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Varyah
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#7 - 2014-12-26 22:01:34 UTC
imho scanning doesn't really need to get easier.

I'd rather have scanning involve less time spent in interfaces that take over the whole screen. For example change the scanning game such that it is performed in space not in the map, pick the bracket of the signature or from the probe window and scan away - in actual space. You could even add that you have to move your ship closer and closer while scanning to generate a more interactive environment.
Lugh Crow-Slave
#8 - 2014-12-27 00:15:05 UTC
CCP already took 1/2 the fun out of scanning now you wan't to do away with the rest of it?

BLOPS Hauler
The 16.8km Bubble
Alia Ravenswing
DARK HAT
#9 - 2014-12-30 11:12:02 UTC
Rivr Luzade wrote:
Read this and use the search function.


Like the rest of FORUM functions, it's not very functional.
Rivr Luzade
Coreli Corporation
Pandemic Legion
#10 - 2014-12-30 13:06:11 UTC
Sad but so true. Next time I'll suggest to use Google or another web search instead of the forum search train wreck.

UI Improvement Collective

My ridicule, heavy criticism and general pale outlook about your or CCP's ideas is nothing but an encouragement to prove me wrong. Give it a try.
Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2014-12-30 14:25:46 UTC
No. Probes are one of the things bots can't do. Lets keep it that way.

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