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Infinity Ziona
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2016-08-19 03:36:38 UTC
Problem:

Ever jumped into a wormhole and found 46 sigs? Having to sort each one, adjusting probe location and size on that many sigs is extremely tiresome and takes no real skill. Its just work.

My idea is to change the way probing is implemented by implementing the following:

1) Ability to click the sig name and have probes autocentre on that sig.
2) Ability to click the sig name and have probes auto-size to the radius of the sig.
3) Either a display such as this or an audio tone that will tell you if the sig is wormhole, ore site, combat site, ship etc which you will pick up as you practice your probing.

The benefits of this is less RSI, less work and the establishment of a people skills based system, where you learn to differentiate based on your cognitive skills.

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Rivr Luzade
Coreli Corporation
Pandemic Legion
#2 - 2016-08-19 19:45:43 UTC
Also a lot less work to combat probe people. The removal of the auto-center function was done so that probe patterns could be introduced. Both patterns and auto-center is far too powerful.

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Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2016-08-19 20:37:47 UTC
Rivr Luzade wrote:
Also a lot less work to combat probe people. The removal of the auto-center function was done so that probe patterns could be introduced. Both patterns and auto-center is far too powerful.


so you make it only work with non-combat probes.
Lugh Crow-Slave
#4 - 2016-08-19 23:06:56 UTC
They made scanning so easy it was became tedious and no fun.... now you want to make it even easier to the point that it may as well be automatic?

BLOPS Hauler
The 16.8km Bubble
Infinity Ziona
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2016-08-20 08:28:58 UTC
Lugh Crow-Slave wrote:
They made scanning so easy it was became tedious and no fun.... now you want to make it even easier to the point that it may as well be automatic?

Its already stupidly easy, just tedious.

My idea would be quicker if you recognised the pattern / tone from previous experience scanning or difficult if you were new.

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baltec1
Bat Country
The Initiative.
#6 - 2016-08-20 08:44:16 UTC
Probing needs to returned to a talent not a simple click of the mouse any idiot can do.
elitatwo
Zansha Expansion
#7 - 2016-08-20 08:51:24 UTC
Infinity Ziona wrote:
Lugh Crow-Slave wrote:
They made scanning so easy it was became tedious and no fun.... now you want to make it even easier to the point that it may as well be automatic?

Its already stupidly easy, just tedious.

My idea would be quicker if you recognised the pattern / tone from previous experience scanning or difficult if you were new.


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Infinity Ziona
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2016-08-21 01:22:33 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
Probing needs to returned to a talent not a simple click of the mouse any idiot can do.

That's exactly what I'm getting at.

The idea is similar to how sonar works in real life. Any idiot can operate a sonar system, turning a dial to get a return, the skill is in recognising the return and identifying it with your experience and talent.

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Lugh Crow-Slave
#9 - 2016-08-21 02:12:14 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
Probing needs to returned to a talent not a simple click of the mouse any idiot can do.


can you name one thing CCP dumbed down and then restored?

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The 16.8km Bubble
Nevyn Auscent
Broke Sauce
#10 - 2016-08-21 02:39:02 UTC
baltec1 wrote:
Probing needs to returned to a talent not a simple click of the mouse any idiot can do.

The 'old' system was not 'talent needed' either. It was just a matter of RSI inducing clickage. All they did was remove the need for all the extra spammage clicking. (Yes I know there was an even older system, that again was just clickage). The rebalancing of skills is what seems to have made it easier as a lot of people hadn't fully trained all their skills but they didn't change the sig sizes.