Player Features and Ideas Discussion

2 more things I miss from the old map, might be option I need to enable on the new one, but haven't found them after going thru the options ...

1. On the old map, you could see the range form your position towards an object (celestial, bookmark, ...) when you moused over it, on the new map it isn't there.

2. When having tactical overlay enabled, it was also visible on the old map, this isn't the case on the new map.

Cheers,

Jinx

Hey everyone! Once again, thanks for all the feedback. I would like to direct everyone to a new forum thread where we would like to receive feedback on the map, post Mosaic (today's release):

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=421118&find=unread

Hope to see you all there

If you have the map focused on a system when you jump into it, signatures (red spheres) do not display on the map. The only way to get them to display is to shift focus to another system, then click the "you are here" icon to re-focus on your location. BIG problem.

so it seems like the map wasn't taken out of beta in this release?

I found the new map really awsome, well done CCP.

Though 1 thing i noticed when probing in my WH hat might get enhenced :

I found the icones too "big", too "thick". I'm talking about the little black thing like a default background for each icones on the map.
Or maybe that's just the 'hit box' around them that are too large and messes with my clicks.
Or it might just be a matter of habit.

Otherwise good job.

It's certainly looks shinny and i love it BUT, like someone told it already :

1 - No focus when you jump in a new system, it stays on the last.
2 - And it's why i still use the old one : we NEED more colors instead of sized dots ("Avg people in space" specially !!!)
It's makes the map so much harder to read than the old one... We need more specific colors for that !
0 and 4 people looks almost identical, and it's definitly a problem for me.. "Ships destroyed" too.
It's not contrasted enough.

Small bugs with scanning :
- Probes gives wrong scan results on the new map ! You need to scan at 4 AU and get a really weak hit at the center of the probes then go down to 2 and get 0% then you have to go back to 8 to get the real hit and then go down to 4-2 etc...

- Often when you launch probes, the bubbles and the arrows are splited but come back together when you move them.

- Finally, when you select a signature among the others after a scan, it keeps the others on screen...

Keep up the good work ! :)

Request: make the "focus current location" button a toggle. Click once, follows you on each jump. Click twice, get current behavior where it just focuses once.

From the comments, clearly many of us want to leave the map up in a small window, auto-focused, as we travel.

It needs dscan features.

I know others have said this before, but due to how bad it is, I feel it needs to be said more:

While the new map looks awesome, it has some huge issues with usability.
I use the ingame map a lot for exploration. Setting a route for an explo run is relatively easy in the old map. While it is not as easy to see paths as it is on Dotlan, it IS in game and filtering for jumps in the last horu, or for people in systems, etc. is easy and the way colors are used makes it easy to find quiet systems. While on a scale from 0 jumps to jita there is not a huge difference between 1 and 20 jumps in the last hour, for me there is. To get this information at a glance from the new map is near impossible. Also I have a lot of bookmarks, they tend to cover the systems and having whle regions blotted out by bookmarks is annoying, as is having to change settings all the time.

The next thing is the behavior when scanning. when the map opens, it takes a long time for the map to stop moving, the same goes for zooming in our out and moving the map. What I need for scanning are fast and precises movements. Every additional click or zoom I do reduces my ISK/hr.
Another thing is how hard it is to actually move the probes. Icons I need to see when just looking at the map (Celestials for example) are in the way when probing.

Scanning in New Eden system is broken, probes don't show their scan range properly. They are poping into view or minimizing until not visible while you zoom out and in a little.


Marker for moving probes - visibility when selected isnt improved. still light blue on white? Maybe add cursor change to indicate.
Full screen mode window - you can't move a view while clicking and moving mouse while its in the corner of the screen, because of cursor mode changing in the corner.

There should be an option to swith "center map on active system" after every jump. Stick map view to system you are currently after each jump, auto moving view after jump. You know what I mean, I hope.