EVE General Discussion

No, it's pretty spot on. Come on, high skills, expensive equipment and implants aside, once you do it a couple of dozen times the mystic is gone. After the umpteenth thousandth time you're ready to give your right testicle if only you didn't have to press f1 x number of times to launch your probes and then have to configure their arrangement by hand. Sure, there are techniques you develop over time of say a couple of months with higher level skills. Beyond that, there's nothing except tedium.

As an add on to this, and with all due respect given to those that are highly skilled with the current system, I'll reiterate that a lot of that tedium would be relieved if you didn't have to go through the same steps for every little thing you want to scan down. Some things should be either automatic (ships approaching within a certain range), or at least fairly extensively automated, allowing you to do other things while the scanning is going on. In the case of Dscan clicking it repeatedly is somewhat pointless.

Now for the more difficult targets, hard to detect anomalies or ships actively trying to hide their signatures in various ways, that could easily take existing mechanics a bit further and become a true game of cat and mouse (particularly in the later case). The trick of course to make the process challenging and rewarding, without making it frustrating... and keeping the element of actual personal skill involved instead of just full skills and best equipment... as was pointed out still has a valid place in any modification of the current system. I suppose the emphasis should be on more strategic thinking and less on tweaking and fiddling, if you take my meaning.

We are all familiar with SciFi that involves both automatic sensor sweeps (usually proximity sensors) and also the capability for detailed searching and analysis of a given area... often looking for a specific thing but sometimes just searching for anything out of the ordinary. I think that should be the ultimate goal, it would make sense, be familiar to us, and would be very entertaining. ESPECIALLY if a wide variety of new anomalies, belts, and other stellar phenomena is introduced to keep things varied and interesting. It could also solve several game mechanic issues (sniper fleets being pointless) and perhaps add a deeper strategic level to many fleet engagement.

It might, just might, also enable the ability to warp to specific points in a system without needing to use celestial objects to do so. Other than close tactical bookmarks, all points we warp to (safe spots) are made by creating bookmarks mid way between various celestial objects (often scanned anomalies as well). I'm not sure why, but for some reason I think that we may soon see the ability to pick a set of coordinates within a solar system and simply warp there. Probably wishful thinking, but I suppose we'll see when more info is released.

... are you actually, literally advocating botting?

These changes would make catching people impossible.

Takes you all will to live after 15min doing it.