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Exactly my thoughs.

Agreed been a peeve of mine for some time and sometimes really confuses knowing what site you're in or close to.


Really nice work on everything else--with better visibility and easier grabbing it's going to make scanning, in general, a lot more pleasurable.

This is exactly why I read the comments and was the point I wanted to make. I assume they won't do this otherwise the stated changes would only be useful for a split signal or when there might be an advantage to making an educated guess - I sometimes scan the intersection of many signals as a first step. I think any time when you have to make battling with the controls part of the game it is because you are worried about lack of other game play. BTW I don't battle the controls as I've learnt to deal with them. It would also require no thought or real skill to copy a body of text but having copy and paste makes life simpler which is what a computer UI should do.

Extra game play could be that scannables are more likely to be somewhere relative to other system elements. More likely to be in the system plane or close to a moon, for instance. Then a knowledgeable scanner might center the scan away from the current signal mathematical best guess and gain an advantage. But if the best guess is simply mathematical (and where the marker is) then you might as well snap to it.

TLDR - 'snap to' but increase the gameplay so that snapping to is less optimal than using knowledge and centering according to that knowledge

Just tried the new D-Scan, and it seems fine, apart from one glaring issue.

On the NEW scanner when you put the range slider to minimum, the range is set to 0. There seems to be literally no purpose to scanning at 0km.

On the OLD scanner, when you set the slider to minimum, the range was set to 1 million km. This was very useful. It allowed you to very quickly snap to a scan range that would detect things at the same celestial as you or on the other side of an acceleration gate.

If the new scanner could be fixed so that setting the slider to minimum retained a few hundred thousand km, it would be very helpful. You could still set the range to zero using the arrows or by typing if necessary.

I have two things that I would like to see now, with these changes being in place

1. Place the galaxy map inside this round "Scanners" menu, at the top
2. allow the system map to be minimized, there is no way it can be minimized now, there is no option anywhere, there is only F9 key and X to close it, and of couse selecting it from the scanners menu closes it too.

Ah, and doubleclick in the scan results doesnt center you on the result on system map, :(
I would like that feature to come back, it easily makes you go to the result you want, just clicking from the spreadsheet.

I have just seen the current state of the new UI on youtube and I came to 2 conclusions:
- I like the feel of the new UI. In my opinion it looks very clean (except maybe for the anon / sig list window, but OK) and it seems moving probes around might get a lot more stress-free
- but since I am red/green colorblind the now even dimmer red colors break scanning and thus exploring and many other activities for me. Not as in: it gets a little more fiddly but as in: I am physically unable to use it. If I squint my eyes really hard right in front of the screen it might work, but that's nothing to do with anything I call fun. This change just removes an entire branch of the game for me and, I suppose, a rather large portion of the colorblind population.

You can change the colorscheme of the entire UI. I like this. It's easy and pretty. I chose a grey / blue option because that is easy for me. Please please please introduce an option that basically replaces everything that is red in the new scanner UI with blue / yellow / orange / whatever. World of Tanks for example does a pretty good job doing exactly this, and they also replace what was originally blue with yellow, iirc. Battlefield 3 did a good job, Battlefield 4 even has 3 distinct colorblind correction options. I am sure there are more games doing this. And you don't need to implement options for every kind of anopia. I am not even asking for having what would suit me personally best. But if there are options, everyone may chose what works even a little better for them. I am sure even quite some non-colorblind people would chose the option because they may find it easier, better fitting their general UI scheme or flat-out prettier. I know quite a lot of non-impaired World of Tanks players do chose the option, so this might not only appeal to a small fraction of the player base, but potentially lots more.
Pleease?

All my characters explore, the sense of discovery exceeds the knowledge that more Isk can be gained doing other things.

How alphas can get into scan sites a few days after entering the game is baffling to me.

The only upside in the current system is that scanning requires a lot of focus and patience, traits on the wane nowadays, thus a negative incentive to persons requiring immediate gratification.

Only time will tell if the new system introduces a whole slew of new explorers going after a finite amount of sites. So, you grizzled, sore-eyed current scan types, let us ramp up our scanning efforts to discourage this inevitable influx of site junkies.

Hours before release, probes UI still unusable.
http://project.rootdir.org/gallery/web/?view=2017.03.13.17.17.30.jpg

This ^^

Also about D-Scan, as i've told here before - add "use overwiev profile" CHECKBOX near the scan button as it was before! That is simply equivalent to "show all" when unchecked, and return back to my scan profile when it's checked.

Now It takes unacceptable long time to scroll all the overview presets to find one u need. And is located on the opposal side of the scan button = totally bad design.

P.S. Yes i've found 1-9 shortcuts to choose scan profile from overview tabs and it's good. BUT i don't use any of my tabs for direct scannig - so it's useless for me, i still forced to scroll my 20+ presets(and many people have much more) every time i need to check something not shown on current D-Scan profile

P.P.S. Maybe there's no need in returning of old checkbox, but make it'll "show all" when you rightclick(or middleclick) the scan button without resetting the scan profile.

Yo Homeslice, we need a way to turn off the d-scan sound effect. I hit dscan like 20 times a minute in wormhole space - I'm about to ******* lose my mind on this.

Also, moving the d-scan angle/range to the bottom of the window was not a good idea... it makes it slightly more annoying to hunt targets using d-scan. Can we get the beta map button added back to the probe launcher?