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There's a lot of good and a lot of bad so far. These are a few things I took notice of.

1. Camera Tracking: Clicking on an object and having the camera pan over to center it is disorienting. It's an okay feature and I know it can be turned off. I don't like that it is enabled by default and that it takes some searching to find out how to turn it off.

2. Undock Button: You gotta be f*cking kidding me. Move it back or at least give us the option to.

3. System Scanner: Having the icons for where anomalies are in space is pretty cool and is a good feature. Having my ship do an automated scan whenever I undock (and whenever else the ship feels like doing one) is not. Option to turn it off please.

4. Gate Jump Animation: As much as I like the new visual effect when jumping through a stargate or wormhole, it quickly causes motion sickness. Also no gatefire animation. Bring back gatefires or something similar and have an option to tone the new visuals down or turn them off.

5. Probe Scanning: I like how the probes move around when changing scan distance. I like the built in probe formations. Having an option to make our own formations would be nice. Launching 8 probes at once should be optional as should automatic probe return on jumping / docking. Probe scanning is now very fast and doesn't take much effort. I like when it took a little bit of player skill to probe quickly.

6: Probe Scanning Window: Not being able to adjust column width is poor design. Can't see enough of some entries to make any sense of them without making the window take up half the screen. Revert it back to what it was before; it was perfect.

7. Hacking / Analyzing Minigame: I might be one of the few people that thinks this isn't a bad feature, but it still needs some work. The difficulty level for some of the containers is just ridiculous and it's hard to compensate for it when the grid is set randomly. It's very easy to fail on the harder ones, even with Tech 2 analyzers and a CovOps. This wouldn't be as big of an issue (but still an issue) if you could keep retrying over and over, but stuff just blows up if you fail twice. Kinda disappointed in how this turned out because of all the feedback in the test server thread that was ignored.

8. Hacking / Analyzing "Loot Explosion": I don't like this one bit. You put all the work into getting the container to open only to have the loot spray everywhere and in the process you end up losing a good chunk of it because it disappears after only a few seconds. One solution to this is to revert back to the old cans, which will never happen because it will stomp on a programmer's ego. Another one is to make the new explosion can things stay around as long as wrecks and and regular jetcans, even if that means having to chase them down because they are still moving.

These are just a few things I noticed in the short time I had to get online today. I'm hearing from friends that anomaly income is messed up too =\

You are incorrect. They have added at least 30 days to carriers via Jump skills.

I honestly don't think asking for the ability to turn off alot of the new 'features' in favor of the older ones is too much to ask for.

The new jump graphic/animation is a bug right? Is there a plan to fix?

A change is not an improvement unless it makes it better. These changes do not, they make things more difficult by adding more steps between simple actions like opening a menu. They make you pause and reform all your old habits for undocking and make sure you hit the right button to undock and not the CQ. The animations don't add anything either, they're merely shiny distractions that eat up processor power. None of these can be considered improvements as none of them made anything better, they simply made them different, and arguably worse.

I didn't say they hadn't added to the pre-requirements.

I DID say that if you could fly it on June 3rd 2013, by design, you will be able to fly it today. Not a hard concept to follow there.

Yesterday I could fly command ships. Despite the changes to their prereqs, I can still fly them today.

While that may be true, he still can use it. He can never get better at it untill he learns all the extra crap that CCP has added

I've only really scratched the surface of what this patch changes, but so far I'm positive. I think I like the direction that you're taking EVE, but I think it would have been wise to keep a few sites hidden to scan down; something genuinely rewarding for those guys (who unlike me) have trained up to scan properly the old way.

Tried a few of the new rebalanced battleships and came away happy with the ones I tried. I'm looking forward to trying the Navy battlecruisers, because I've hated flying the standard ones since they were rebalanced.

There have been a couple of glitches with the overview which blanked briefly - not been able to reproduce. Aside from that it's been a really smooth update and I've nothing negative to say about my experience. Good work CCP.

The change in the behaviour of the dock/warp/jump keyboard shortcuts is crazy-making, but I will get used to it.

*cough*

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