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I initially really liked the new map, however after using it for a while I really do find it less readable and more difficult to use. The readability issues, combined with the added visual complexity of the map (which in itself is not a bad thing), makes actually using the map much more difficult.

Some suggestions and hoped for improvements:

1. An option to turn off the background. The background, while nice looking, reduces the readability of the map. Pretty visual clutter is still just visual clutter and obfuscates information.

2. Lines between systems are very difficult to see. It's nice that they become clearer when you select a system, but continually having to do this to see system connections is frustrating. This is one area where I think the original map was far superior.

3. Variation of region colour (lines, stars) is subtle to the point of being useless. When you zoom out it is especially confusing. Looks as if there are only 3 or 4 regions. and doesn't help to establish any sense of where specific regions are on the map.

4. When grouping by region, and then using statistics (i.e. station count), region names are very difficult to make out. If I'm grouping by region, then its safe to assume the region name is important. Additional actions to reveal region names when grouping by region reduces the usefulness. Requiring additional actions or clicks to reveal the information that the particular setting is supposed to communicate is not a good user experience. Region names should be clear and immediately obvious.

Other than that I think there are still a lot of fine tuning that needs to be done. Others have already commented on the sun glow and numerous other issues. While I really like being able to zoom directly into a system, overall I think the functionality and readability of the original map was far superior. Looking forward to progress on this.

Some of my grievances with the current iteration:

- The signature icon is preferentially selected, which means that if I have my probes over a sig and need to move them in a plane, I can't because the game selects the sig marker and not the cube, which is totally unnecessary. In what situation would I like to select the sig rather than the probe manipulator?

- Zoom level is still woefully inadequate, or do you really intend to forbid us from d-scanning moons via this "design decision"

- A way to turn off background clutter all in one go would be very welcome, right now it just drives me mad. By that I mean other star systems as well as the objects in my current system that for some reason take the foreground and register clicks before the probes I'm moving.

Please, I'm trying to like the new map, but right now it's just inferior in both functionality and usability to the old one.

More generally, if I have probes out, I want the probes in front of everything else. It is maddening how hard it can be sometimes to perform the basic function of moving the probes.

And to be honest, although I think CCP gets a lot of undeserved criticism, that this has been like this for so long really challenges my desire to think they know what thery are doing. This is just so obviously broken.

Marech.

A detail I forgot.

Making us choose to have either old or new map not both, has probably reduced the potential feedback on new map. I know I turned if off completely because some of the flaws just make it too annoying to use on daily basis.

Quoting myself for background.
I just found out it's far worse than that... apparently you can select things like constellation names before probes(!). Why? Why are they selectable in the first place and why on earth you'd make them take priority over probe controls? Trying to move the probes and ending up with a draggable system name on my cursor is really infuriating.

Sorry for the rant, but I really needed to say that. The new map can be made to work, but you rally need to take in mind what people use it for. Let me propose a solution so as not to be completely antaginistic: Make certain elements like constellation names, gate links and even other systems fade out after a certain level of zoom, so we can use it like the old system map when zoomed in, while being able to transition to the larger map by zooming out.

I would love to have an option whether open an solar system on single click or double click.

Sometimes clicking on the system and trying to find the routes to the neighboring systems is kinda messy since solar system map opens on single click and gets kinda mixed with neighboring systems.

One more attempt at the New map.

Glad to report it appears the wormhole bugs are worked out. No problems.

Further improvements and recommendations are to improve usability:

Add "select all" and "unselect all" to the markers tab. Needed because much of the normal space items are red and it's very easy to miss the small signal spots.

User defined marker presetting would also be excellent.



I'm staying with the new map.

The zoom in and out keys, when defined, are not working/supported.

These work in space and also in the old map and it would also be nice to have these for the new map, too.

Thank you.

There's two things that really annoy me in this map so far.

1)My "You are here" marker bugs out easily when i click "Focus current location" button and doesn't follow my ship location. Very inconvenient for setting bookmarks mid-warp
2) Probe and signature icons get in the way everytime i try to click on the arrows and cube to reposition my probes. Why not simply mark probe locations with the old green dots. If i need to rearrange my probes i have shift and alt. And signature icons are rather large, honestly.

Anyway. Thanks for the new map. It's almost fleshed out.

Is the "you are here" (focus current location) intended to follow you in warp?