EVE General Discussion

... is there a benefit to it?

While this is only a first impression, it feels a lot more difficult to navigate, at least when looking at statistics for individual systems. Multiple systems are stacked on top of one another, so that simply hovering my mouse over it requires a lot more effort (I have to go about rotating and zooming just to figure out if there's a system under the line-of-sight one that I'm not seeing, or that my course may actually be going through).

Am I missing something (like a flatten option), or is this a case of aesthetics over functionality? Maybe I just have to get used to it (granted: I did not give it much time before "I'VE BEEN PLAYING THIS GAME FOR THREE WHOLE WEEKS () AND YOU DARE CHANGE SOMETHING!?!?", but I'm wondering what other people think about it).

You can still turn it off, hopefully they'll keep it that way, because I hate the new map too. Why can't they just make the universe map work like dotlan? Trying to plot a route and dealing with 5 solar system dots overlapping each other is a huge pain in the butt.

Turn on "abstract" to flatten the map.

Scanning does work with the new map, but its ******* awful.

Hint: Those huge ass tear icons in local map, that are both hard to tell apart and take up half the screen dont help. They really dont.

Doesnt help that the anomaly you try to scan down randomly vanishes if you tilt the map wrong, or that fullscreen system view is far from "full screen".

Ever since the 2nd MMO came onto the market there was this kind of competition.

While you can not make a good game by good looks alone, good looks are equally important for new players to get interested in the first place. polishing the Ui and graphics is much needed maintenance for every game. or would you prefer to have EVE look like it did way back with the old rendering engine? I guess not.

I think EVE should focus on performace.

Slogan - "EVE the deep game, for great minds that runs on a toaster"

Rather than - " EVE, trying desperately to look prettier but reducing performance, frustrating players and pushing them to upgrade their machines to run the other space games."

The beta map is great... in some of it's functions.

But for scanning, it's very poor.

As well as checking for statistics, like ships destroyed. On the old map you can quickly see, where the hot spots are, helped by the coloring as well. On the new map, you can't tell the difference.

The beta map may "look" good but it has poor functionality. Ask any rl world map maker and they will tell you that what makes a good map is the ability to look at it and with a glance glen the important info that you need. The more "gee whiz" complex the map the less useful it becomes. Here CCP is adding a lot of nonsense to the map and thereby decreasing the map's usability. Hopefully, they will withdraw this misbegotten creation soon and send it to the same hell as industry teams and captain's quarters.

I like the new map:

• It seems faster than the older one did
• I use the compass guide around the capacitor for dscanning
• I use alt+shift+X to see moons and dscan in space
• still hunting and catching things in anoms and sigs everywhere
• i use the map in fullscreen mode when scanning

This is more a thread of "please don't change the game I know already" which is always generally a bad thing. Rise to the challenge, try it out more!

Umm ... the way you opened that reply ... ?