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A couple suggestions on scanning;

- Let us know how hard a Cosmic Signature is to scan down when it comes up in the system scanner. This information is very useful to both new and old explorers; with the removal of the old probing method we no longer have this information, making new players waste time on sites they are unable to scan down at low skill levels while making older explorers waste time scanning down easy sites which are best left to new players.

- Put anomalies and DED Complexes/ Escalation Sites into separate filter options (instead of classifying both as Combat Sites). With the current filter setup, explorers have to search for relevant sites in a long and slightly unwieldy list of other stuff for no discernable reason.

- Allow us to resize the columns in the results section of the probing window

Compensated for what, exactly?

They've already confirmed it countless times in as many ways as is humanly possible.

Er, probably because there aren't any skills required.

This.

If we wanted to play a silly little game like that I'm sure we all have Minesweeper just a couple of clicks away.

sitting there playing that boring game over and over is one of the dumbest thing you guys have ever come up with. please get rid of that or at least make it so activating more than one mod gives you twice the power in the boring and repetitive little game.[/quote]



i don't think you guys at CCP have any idea how many cans an avid explorer opens in a given day!

we simply can not be asked to the same task for each can its too much i am done exploring

Did Downtime change with Odyssey? Just got a pop up saying down time starting in one hour at 0800hrs? What this now?

Oh "Cluster Shutdown has been temporarily cancelled". Someone opps'd! lol

Some love this new jump-gate effect. I do not. I am hoping there is a feature that will allow me to click the new effect to the off position, due to the camera moving/refocus, changing aspect below the tactical display, and zooming in. I must constantly zoom out via mouse-wheel, adjust camera view lateral rotation and often vertical rotation.

Not cool CCP. The cgi visuals/jump effects I can live with, but I can not live with the camera movement changes at all. It worked fine before, but is now game-breaking. Please fix that or make an option to turn it off.

By the way, another camera issue is always having to mouse-scroll out when un-docking from station/die in a ship (land in a pod in space)/go through a wormhole/un-dock pos/enter a ship in space from pod/etc (you get the idea i think).

Please fix this. It is quite annoying to constantly have to mouse wheel scroll out current view at the slightest change.

After the Odyssey patch, the list of problems is longer with the warp-gate visual effect added to the list. Before the patch, you only had to scroll out current view once when you un-dock.

Now I must scroll out my camera view every minute (if traveling across a region) in every system, every time I un-dock, leave or die in a ship to land in a pod, eject from ship to pod, enter a ship from pod, and enter/exit a wormhole.

Some of the things I noticed after reading this thread:

People, the person behind the keyboard want a flexible UI, font size, movable boxes, and less screen real estate taken up by deadspace. There are many features that some people don't use and some people do.

Hacking, the new PI, is click intensive and seems to get old really fast. I have not tried this yet in game, but what exactly does the hacking module do now? Can the module be revamped to find and unlock the pathway with less clicking. Again I have not tried it. Hate to say this but couldn't there be skill or two to speed up the hacking feature. Can spewing or jettison effect. Slow the velocity down a touch. Fanfest CCP said bring your friends to catch cans, what are they meant to do in the meantime? Sit like bumps on a log?

Scanning: It would seem that people having invested time/ skill points in exploring have got the short end of the stick. Not saying that the graphics are not good because they are ( I think so anyways). What Im failing to see though is that some sites you can bookmark without probing and others you have to scan down. Why? why is it a pilot can bookmark an ore site without scanning it down, but not a wormhole. All things equal a site is a site, it is up to the player to enter it. Honestly, all sites should have to be scanned down with difficulty rising as the reward inside the site rises. As the pilot has taken time and interest to invest in those skills. Probe formation or auto formation, get rid of it. You dumbed it down to much. That is a skill that is acquired through practice, it is not hard to master but takes time..... Those that want to do something will take the time to learn and practice those arts.

Ice Mining, this is epic. I like this new mechanic of the game. However one thing popped out to me right away. With 4 hours of idle time, what are those ice MINERS going to do? Mine belts? If mining ore belts between ice belt spawns, and ore belts do not respawn until after Down Time. Do you think this is fair, globally, for multiple time zones. Personally I don't. Speaking of Ore, specifically nullsec, if they were buffed why wasn't highsec ore buffed with small amounts of high end minerals. You can not honestly say, high risk high reward with the Sov mechanics in play at this time. And if that was the case, low sec should have seen the highest buffs of all, as CCP has repeatedly tried to find ways to populate low sec.

Overall impression, I like it. Yes. Does not mean that it can not be polished up a bit though, because it has room for polishing. Try not to accelerate the skills to much. CCP nestled the ship skills to follow a more logically path. Can we expect weapons to follow this logically path also? I'm pretty sure some of you CCP are still punch drunk and relaxing after the launch of the expansion and you should be. Job well done, honestly, job well done. I don't know whats in the chute for the winter expansion, but would like to see just an all around clean up. Maybe give the players in game tools to make your game designers life easier. Like a clipboard with arrows and other basic icons coupled with print screen option and submit to x department. The player could then say "move this here, dead space here why, font change, expandable window? drop down menu? " etc etc. In 2013 CCP Seagull stated " what tools can we give to the player to make the game better?" or something along those lines. Probably pretty amazing at what 50,000 pilots can come up with.... Start by making the calculator expandable. No one uses it because we can't see the damn buttons

Finally, the launcher. There has to be a way to communicate WITH the player as to WHY the server is offline and go here (link) for more information. This is directed at the DDoS attack rather than the expansion. However, twitter and facebook are great, if you can get the link to end user. To me that was major major fail. Failing to communicate to the consumer, the buyer of monthly subscription(s) time. Plan ahead, do not think the last attack was/ will be the final attack. To do so would be foolish.

The first step in crisis management is to create a plan knowing the plan will not remain intact. IE everything will not go according to plan.