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The new color scheme (or texture) of the probe spheres is way too bright. The greyish probe cubes mostly blend in now with the brightness of the probe spheres especially when they are small or you zoom out. It's making it much more difficult to actually see them to grab and control the probes. Depending on the angle of the map I'm just clicking on a bright spot hoping to actually grab the probe controls.

If I recall correctly from back when I first learned to probe, the colors (red/yellow/green) denote how many probes are getting a 100% hit on the sig you are trying to probe out. Red was none, I think yellow was one or more, and green was a third number which I forget.

This mattered a hell of a lot more when you had to move each probe individually and there was no module to reduce the spherical error margin (I don't quite know what else to call it) of the sig you were trying to probe down. A yellow hit meant you were close, so start scooting individual probes around to try and triangulate.

Now, with the probe groupings and the new upgrade modules, I haven't individually moved a probe in years. On the other hand the feature may not be entirely legacy; there may still be use cases either for very hard to scan ships in combat probing, or for people with lower skills or sub-optimal fits.

I frequently cant grab the side of the cube because the probe's bracket is in front of it and I click that instead. I suggest either making the cubes twice the size of the brackets, or let me toggle the probe brackets visibility.

Any progress on this ? For me this is by far the biggest issue with the new changes. Seperating the dscan and probe scan window is not a solution. Id rather not play the game if it means needing to have yet another window obscuring the view of space. Otherwise just feels like im playing spreadsheets.

Could you post a screenshot please? Sounds like something is amiss here.

The toggle for probe bracket visibility is in the Markers menu at the top left of the Solar System map window/window controls.

As I explained, it's a legacy issue and it's being fixed. If you're asking for a timeline, we don't give that for fixes that aren't already lined up for a deployment, sorry. I agree that separating the windows isn't a solution, it's a workaround.

I love the new scanner. Hot keys have changed my life. Probes do disappear from time to time but pressing shift brings them back magically. And bookmarks tend to not always show up on the map at all. Otherwise love this ****.

I peeked on sisi on the interface - one remark for current version is that the visual richness/brightness of probe spheres is a bit of an overkill tbh (that's one more reason why checkboxes and sliders are superior than forcing one-size-fits-all at all cost).

Like the new map, this new scanning interface 'Drop Down' really is something you either love or simply hate beyond belief, question is why this huge divided in opinions.

Asking around and using it...Very Briefly' myself, I get the same answer, 'Way to much detail', comments like, over engineered, fiddly, difficult to use, and more concerning and predominant, Just another reasons to stop scanning all together, were some of the answer I got, Happily for me at least there is still an option to turn the wretched thing off allowing me for the time being to continue scanning stuff down quickly and efficiently until such time as CCP force this change on the players.

After that sadly my days in EVE are numbered as finally the Dev's have done for me as far as this game goes, Dunno how you really believe that by killing off in sequence all activities that players once found the ability to generate there own content in is a good plan I have no idea and scanning stuff down, having once almost killed it as a profession with Nerf's and your silly unfinished, 'Pac Man' game in past iterations it was one of the few things left to us as it stood were we could relax in game as individuals in space, introducing this abomination will finally ensure that even those few of us that ever un-docked will have one less reason to do so.

I said a few years ago that they should take away your crayons until you learned to talk to players before and not after you dreamed up another scheme, Seems you were not listening then either.