Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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If you can't put forth the effort to click a button now and then while you're doing things, you shouldnt be doing them.
You're proposing to make D-scan the same as the overview, just less informative, but always there and updating.

D-scan makes you actually have to be at the PC, doing something, to keep from getting killed.

Another thing is to color code dscan so friendlies pop up blue anyone else red sometime when I'm mining I start warping to pos then realizing its the other corps ship makes for feeling dumb very often... oh I only run I'm mining anyother time bring it hehe

WH's are supposed to be dangerous, having an automated warning system is just silly. Having that chance of not getting scanned down before cloaking when you start checking out someone's wh makes the hunt more fun, and the carebearing more dangerous (and the payoff reflects that). If you want to catch sight of everything that comes into system, you need to work for it, else they might as well make local work as normal (or some hybrid if you aren't cloaked you're in local).

I was thinking about this topic today and realized if u live with another corp get together and agree on an initial to put in ships name that way you know it's a friendly... And about what everyone is saying I agree auto d scan is dumb. main reason being that if ur d scan is scaning every 5 seconds that means a new page pops up and refreshes and stays there for five seconds no change and auto anything makes people lazy next thing u know, u start looking at it every so often and bam you just got blown up for being lazy and not spamming d scan. Anything faster might aswell activate local and start calling uknown space to lowsec hehe

People are assuming that I DON'T hit the scan button literally every 5 seconds. Many people in my corp have a habit of hitting that scan button religiously.

My corp uses tags to to verify that they are corporate ships as well.

I have had people sneak up on me because wormholes often appear out of range of D-Scan, therefore I have no idea that any danger has become present until it de-cloaks. It is also possible to pop through a wormhole and re-cloack before you pop up on a D-Scan. It's a roll of the dice.

My proposal not the same as local which warns you the moment someone hits system. I'm not asking for anything more advanced other than the auto refresh to save my precious laser mouse, and the option to load the info to overview so i can see my ship and it's epic graphics while I fly it instead of the scan window.

Besides any nitwit can take advantage of lazy pilots by changing the the name of their ship.

My proposal still requires vigilance and intelligence, just less clicky, clicky.

Get yourself a decent gaming keyboard with macro keys.

PROBLEM BLAPPED.

I like the idea of D scan automatically updating at a set interval of say 3 times a minute, or even 6 times a minute while i'm mining, gas harvesting, or doing combat sites so I am essentially the hunted.

I'm even ok with the idea of newly scanned objects being highlighted but when I'm hunting can my tiny little probes not show up and give me a chance.

Would that give a better balance between hunted and hunter or would it just be a different balance?

Might stop all the RSI suits from wormholers in the future.

Damn I even mash that D scan button when I'm in hi sec

Wow, people actually have a problem clicking DScan? I've been doing it so long it's habit now... don't even have to think about it. The most annoying aspect of dscan I've found is when I get to empire and keep clicking it anyhow, seeing it filled with all that mission litter and such.

Seeing a full dscan... it freaks me out.

and I want mine to auto warp to safe spot on detection of specified items.. then auto cloak while there..... (sic)

Take a look at section #3 of this doc, http://dl.eve-files.com/media/corp/AdunhSlavy/RSIV611.htm

Does pretty much everything that has been suggested in this thread, what I read read anyway.