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Thinking that the continuous scan feature would be nice for the dscan as well. Does it work for the dscan? If not, I would suggest that.

Also, while scanning, I was quite happy with the UI improvements but was left hoping that there could be a feature where the probes are auto-centered on the anomaly or signature of interest. Currently it is a real pain swinging the views around this way and that trying to estimate how far and in which directions the probes should be moved. And maybe I am just really OCD, but it is really annoying to have the center of the probes never get centered exactly on the signature. Even though it likely has little effect, I hate seeing the probes not centered on the approximate location of the signature! By hate, I mean it drives me nuts! Leaves me regretting my decision to probe just because I cannot center the probe group exactly. For me, it really is that big of a deal, and it may be at least a strong annoyance for others as well.

Lastly, have you considered displaying dscan results in space as a circle or on the solar system map as the volume of a spherical section centered on you based on the range of directions and the range of distances up to the maximum distance.

Found an odd bug, when the sensor overlay is on in continuous scan mode the first or second wreck you produce will automatically be set to blue / abandoned.
Its reproducible and i also made a bug report.

edit: hmm now it also blued a wreck while the sensor overlay scanner was off... damn.

The ice change is not about exploration. It is about making ice limited, without making it limited to only Euro time zone. The tiny belts can be mined out in about 24 man hours (24 ships can take it down in an hour), and then will respawn 4 hours after they are finished off.

Had they left the ice in the current belts to respawn at downtime, then by the time USA players got home from work, the ice would have been LONG gone.

1) After jump, you are cloaked. No modules can be on while cloaked (except cloak).
2) Very hard to do. The running modules are entires in a queue of events on a solar system's virtual machine. Easy to have your ship say "System 1, I'm leaving" and "System 2, I'm jumping in". Much more work to have system 1 then transfer all the queued up events from server 1 to server 2. Much easier to have you jump into a system with no queued up events.

yes you are cloak, but why at the moment I uncloak the module(s) I was running before, cannot start running again automatically?

And this doesn't need to be done in server side, it can easily be done in client side in a transparent way to any user and with no problem for the server performance:

for example I was running my shield hardeners A, B, C. I jump, they shut down, my client keeps the list of tank related modules that were on. Then as soon I uncloak the client activates the modules for me, I not even notice it.

Less clicking and more automation is good.

I have posted this on the Probe Scanning thread, but many of the points are related to the new Sensor Overlay. These are my initial impressions, before reading the threads. There are many good points in both threads from people who clearly had more time to test things out. One thing I have noticed is the lack of integration. The anomalies appear on the overlay, but not on the map. This leads to Fozzie's comment about removing the list. Many people have noted reasons why the list provides real and good information. Since you would not be removing the list itself (it will remain for probe scanning right?), it seems a bit odd to remove it here as well. From the view point of integration and orientation I would want to be able to see everything on the sensor overlay on the system map while scanning with probes as well. You might be able to use the system map instead of the list, but that has problems with active systems.

Initial general impressions
1) Impression after 30 seconds: Gack! This is confusing and horrible.
2) Where did that colored thing go? Having the colored site locators disappear may make sense from a design prospective, but it looked like some random thing disappearing from my screen.
3) Everything else looks bland. The planets and stellar features are distinctly nondescript in comparison to the brightly colored sites.

Attempts at using
4) I want to try scanning down that orange site. Where is it? When I go to the map I do not see the sites that I see from the system scanner. The 100% sites are not there. The sites to scan do not have an approximate location, even though you gave that to me in the ship view. Please provide an approximate location for those things so that I can orient myself when switching between the two views. The information can be very inexact since I know that I need to scan it down.
5) I am losing the sites that I did scan down? This is a cruel joke. I should have those sites identified in both the map and ship view as green with 100%.
6) I must have seven probes? Why didn't you sell me a seven in one probe, or why not let me launch what I have? You know sometimes I just want to launch one probe to see what is around. The seven probe thing neither makes sense, nor is functional.
7) Warp to, but not align? I should be able to align to the sites as well as warp to them. I can align to nearly everything else in my ship's view.
8) Have I found everything? I missed one site because of it's orientation with respect to my ship. I want a list, but I have read that you don't. At the very least I need to be able to go to the system map and see all of the sites at once. That might be a replacement for the list.
9) Which direction is that? Orienting in space and making certain you are viewing all of the space is a special mental peculiarity like color blindness. It is especially difficult in a computer game because you do not have a kinesthetic sense or sense of balance. The system should have multiple methods of identifying the locations so that they are accessible to more people. You should also consider the needs of the blind community. Again a list would be good, the map should be populated, and you may be able to think of other options.

Regarding the scan overlay visuals: I think the residual grid effect that's currently present is, perhaps, a bit overbearing in contrast to the space environment. My preference is something more among the lines of DRADIS from a visual standpoint. It's simple but effective. Making the visuals of the scanner simpler and more neutral could definitely reduce the potential annoyance of its persistence substantially.

I've noticed that, while the overlay is active, if you decide to look around with the right-click camera function, a glitch will occur and the overlay will disappear.

Please don't include signatures on the list (or put in some sort of delay). It turns the Discovery Scanner into a limited form of local in wormholes.

Real time intel should have to be tediously worked for (through DSPs, probe coverage, alts and/or friends, constantly scanning) not just handed out to anyone passing by (or swinging their camera around the screen).

The absolute best thing about wormholes is the hunt and the threat of being hunted. Signatures appearing on the overlay will gut these two things.

Liking it so far, however it would be nice if it also gave you a 5% or 10% sig on the map screen for easier probing.

- Please let us disconnect this. Having automatically run every time you jump/dock is annoying if you are not interested in finding anoms (e.g. when moving trade goods or PI stuff, travelling, etc.). Whya re you force feeding me anoms when I do not care about exploration. EVE is a lot bigger and richer than exploration.

- I get dizzy in FPS shooter, honestly, I can't play them cause I puke after 5 minutes (some call it motion sickness, I cal it @#$%#!). If I have to now rotate my camera 360 degrees cause that's the only way to see what's been scanned I'm going to be puking after a few jumps.
I should not spend time pixel hunting the anoms around me cause I can't tell where they are (or how many) without panning. A list would be ideal, an icon at the edge of the screen (ala hostile targets not in your view) would also help, also a message letting me know what was found will also be appreciated.

- I should be able to align them with the camera easily and tell what's in them through the ol' dscanner..

- Also, range and type in the name will help, not the anom sig which means little.