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In one of the latest dev blogs there is a mention of removing the old map. Please do not do this! Leave the old map as an option. The new map is really laggy/slow for me and FPS slows down to a crawl. It does not feel nice to use it at all, especially for probing. I have a high end PC and I can play eve easily at the highest settings, so it is strange that this happens. Please do not shove the new map down everyone's throats in the next update. It is such an important tool that I have to use all the time.

The new map works just spiffy at the interstellar level. I like I for that. The only bugaboos I have with it for this is when I focus on a system, I'd like it to be at the same zoom level I am already at. Right now, it zooms out a little from what is useful. And, it'd be awesome if the map could update to follow as I move between systems. I LOVE that it can be windowed and shoved over to my second screen. That is a huge plus.

However, it is too spiffy for exploration at the solar system level. I know that things like moons, planets and whatnot can be toggled on or off, but it'd be nice if the icons for those could be made somewhat transparent. I'd still like to see planets and suns while scanning, but too often their icons cover the site I am trying to scan down. At a further zoom level, a nullsec security status looks almost like the red dot for signatures.

The spheres for the probe radii are also very difficult to grab as is the icon for probe moving. The cursor should also be something more accurate than a circle. Its ridiculous that the cursor for something that needs reasonable accuracy is a circle. If its good enough for both Microsoft and Apple...

What really must go is the easing when zooming at the system level. It really slows down the scanning process. Please at least make it a toggled option, kind of like my nifty Logitech mouse wheel. Again, accuracy over bling, please.

Exactly this.

The Beta map is not only slow as molasses to navigate but it also has considerable lag and is slow to load on opening. In a combat situation this is deadly.

Unless we can get the consistent performance of the old map I don't think it is a good idea to force this upon us.

My problems with new map:

Even though the old map took all screen it was really comfortable to use. Making bookmarks, navigation (warping around), aligning celestials for dscaning - it all was easy on old map. I could spend a lot of time with map open and not even see space. The only time I needed to go out of the map is for manual navigation (double clicking) in space.

On the new map I don't feel comfortable at all. It's harder to align celestials (I don't think it matters because dscan doesn't work with it at all).
Also I don't have huge resolution on my monitor (1440x900) and other UI elements take a lot of space on screen. Windowed map is too small for me and if I try to enlarge it then it covers other important windows. Docked left or right makes other windows cover each other. And finally full screen is showing only small window with black left, right and bottom of the screen while I'm in wormhole space. Furthermore I would like to have a center of my map 30% to the left (where my ship always is - everywhere else I have UI elements) and this map doesn't support it.

For now I'm using old map for probing and in-system navigation.

Hello everyone! Once again, thanks for all the great feedback

Just wanted to let you guys know that we are deploying a patch today that will address a few of the glaring bugs with the map, and in particular probing. We are still not up to par with the old map but we are making progress. Patch notes are here.

I haven't used the new map as extensively as others so I won't dare comment on anything else - except that when I jump through a stargate the map refocuses on the previous system in my route. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. If I have a system selected with that useless little round cursor thing the map will sometimes use that as preference, but not always.

I always look a few systems ahead and around when I travel and the windowed version of the new map is great and a L-O-N-G time coming, but using it while traveling is completely useless for me as I cannot stop it from refocusing.

Little less clutter but the 'pointer' is still a planet, the size doesn't adjust when I zoom out the map, so the planet 'pointer' is the size of my probe box.

Is this going to be addressed?

I have tried to use the new interface for my daily scanning needs and while I'm optimistic, some work needs to be done:

I believe you are trying to address two different user groups with the same tool: Scanners want a crisp, fast, easy to use interface. FCs are looking for content and a lot of information in a bigger scale. The tool you have created is catering more to FCs than scanners. A few examples:

a) If i'm scanning for a living, the zoom in into the system gets old very quickly. It was cool the first 100 times...
b) Along the same lines, when I jump systems, the map should jump with me
c) Others have mentioned the inertia, make it crisp, scanning has to be precise.
d) The mouse pointer should be a pointer/hand, not a circle...
e) Why is my next AP destination line blinking so annoyingly?
f) When dropping probes, why don't they show up in the middle of the system?

Would it be possible to make a simplified version for scanning only, one that doesn't have the bells and whistles you have added, yet retains the background and theme for consistency?

The easiest RL comparison I can see is this: The Radar operator on any military installation has a very specific job to do: Identify targets. He uses a very specific tool to do so and doesn't need fancy features. The commander on the other hand needs a full map with terrain information, unit information etc. I am that Radar operator, I'm scanning 3-4 hours per day, just give me the bare essentials....

GL on the next iteration.

One little feature from the old map that I miss is that, if I'm flying a jump-capable ship and don't feel like pulling up an out-of-game jump planner, I could fire up the map and it would provide a sphere showing my jump range. The new map doesn't do that, or at least it doesn't do that with stars-outside-region grouped.

Also, I'm sure other people have said this, but I find it really hard to figure out what I'm looking at on the new map if I'm trying to, say, find a nearby star system.