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Why are you forcing 8 probes? Is there a new technical limitation? What about all those pilots that carry only 5 probes with them, what do they do on release?

Probes insta returning is dumb, losing your probes should be a lesson learned. Why are you even changing this?

On the flip side I like the formations, well the pinpoint one

It seems a lot of the people who were whining here were doing so without actually testing in SiSi. I welcome the skill changes. Now, we don't have to train Range-finding or pinpointing to 5. If we are ready to lose 5% in scan deviation and probe strength, we can leave those at 4 and save nearly 50 days of training (This will irritate some guys who already did it). Add to that the new T1 scanning modules, and you will be probing down 1% signal strength sites in a Drake.

The new system does make probing unbelievably easier and faster. If you use the scanner overlay with the new instant probe formations, you can probe down a signal some 20 mouse clicks faster. It does take some monotony out of probing some 20 systems in a row for a good site on a bad day. On a good day, you will be left smiling without realizing it while you probe down sites within half a minute of it spawning. As this makes things easier for newbies also, the veterans will naturally grudge it. And all this talk of 'This is EVE' is a natural outburst from them.

I support completely the demand for the feature where only a single probe is launched when you click the launcher manually. Also all the probes launched thus should be centrally placed overlapping each other. This will additionally help those who want custom probe formations.

If the mini-game is not improved before Odyssey launch on TQ (I expect it would be), a lot of us will have to give up on those sites. The new loot spew system up now on SiSi is impossibly frustrating. Those who have tried it will know what I am talking about. If they are planning to completely remove the triggered NPC spawns at these sites or limit those to frigs or destroyers, we could use frigs ourselves to make grabbing those spews more easier. But without reducing the collision level, everything becomes frustratingly hopeless (Also, you are inside one of those structures - hostile pops up in D-Scan - you try to align to celestial/safe - you realize you can't due to collidable objects - you frantically try to get out of it to align - hostile lands on grid, points you and pop you).

If you have two separate formations of four, you have to move them separately. You cannot even use the alt/shift key to move them all together. Which means you are horribly slow. Try for yourself and stop-clock the time you spend between scans on repositioning your probes. If it's more than five seconds maximum, you are really bad, mhkay? But please, keep on thinking that you are doing it right :)

Since you need a minimum of 4 probes to scan anything down (unless that's changed) perhaps it would be better if clicking on the probe launcher launched 4 probes, and additional clicks launching another 2 probes?

Lots of people use single probes all the time, you just live in over used/exploited areas of the universe.

let em keep the pin point layout, its useful and any rookie will be able to get a 100% hit in 3 moves, the spread is an abortion as is the reversion to set default scan sizes.

The single probe launch is necessary for many tasks if you live way out where little probing goes on, its a way to get rid of what you bookmarked the day before and with out having to re-find the thing.

i suggested earlier, make all Core probes launch as a set of 8 a.k.a. the SUPER PROBE and increase mass of the set of 8 to to equal 1 Combat probe with single launch.

If the sig IDs have changed how are you going to know to a certainty which sigs are which?

I don't know about other wormhole corps but we update sig IDs when they change, so that new signatures are obvious to anyone who is scanning at any time, without them having had to have scanned down everything to 100%.

I figured single probe launches were only useful for what is going to be defunct - scanning the whole system with DSP or whatever to know the strengths of all the sigs in the system? (defunct because DSPs are going, and auto-scanner replicates seeing all sigs)

Regardless of your speed, it still takes what little thought process out of probing. To where it's move cluster over dot, shrink, shrink, hit. While setting up probes may seem tedious to some, it was really the only "challenge" that existed in probing.

Also don't be afraid to jump sizes, especially if you are past 15-20% str.

Its just experience, once you get a dot, your made basically

did we all forget about the Deep Space Probe removal?

CCP Paradox - please keep DSP in the game, and allow the launch of one.

or expand the range of Combats(and Cores) to 256 to make up for the loss