Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The game settings menu has an option to revert to the old map in there somewhere. For now. I sincerely hope the "beta" map is in fact beta, and will receive (more than) a few revisions.

F10 is the keyboard shortcut for the original map, it still works.

Adding my .02 ISK: the new map is hopeless for scanning. If CCP can't figure out a way to let players easily manipulate probes on the new map it will have to stay in Beta forever.

My biggest issue with the new map is the lack of a proper pointer (yes, I will post in that other thread too ;) ). The circle is not as precise as an arrow or the square currently available in the system map. Plus, with the overlap of various icons it can become very painful to move the probes around.

Should have a preset that automatically allows one to turn off various map symbols so they don't get in the way and the circle as a pointer needs to replaced with a proper and precise pointer - arrow or the existing square.

Icons often overlap the probes, making it really annoying to scan near planets
If you double click to center the probes while zoomed in, it zooms you out which pisses me off
The bubbles feels less responsive when trying to resize the probes
The probe window is constantly hidden behind the map (may be a weird complain, but it actually makes it annoying).

Those things are not small things, it's really what makes the map proper for scanning. For everything else, it's absolutely beautiful

• The zooming is a plague. It's inertial is way too strong to actually do something with it in the same way the old map allows it.
• I cannot zoom as far into the system as I can with the old map which turns dscanning POS around planets into a harder chore.
• When I am zoomed in quite a bit into, let's say 8 AU probes, they jitter and wobble around like crazy.
• As mentioned above, grabbing a probe's sphere to resize the radius is more comparable to RNG than anything else.
• Not directly related to scanning is the still horrendous bookmark situation on the universe map.

I'm not going into information accuracy and display here.

woooops wrong thead

if an ISD member could please delete?

I too have one of those infernal new fangled machines and the new map is still horrible for explo

You obviously don't do much scanning yourself I assume then. Otherwise it would be quite obvious.

As others mentioned before:

- The icon overlap makes it a pain to move probes by comparison to the old map.
- The circle pointer, although aesthetically appealing, lacks the functional precision of the current pointer in the old map.
- Scrolling and panning has a sluggish effect that makes moving and zooming in the new map a quite unpleasant experience for people scanning (not to mention that it adds stress and greatly slows down the process of repositioning the probes).

Regarding the last point, they tried to implement that same effect in the old map a few years ago when they added the ability of controlling all probes at once using the alt key. Back then people complained about it so much that they removed it almost immediately. Hopefully they will take the same sensible action with this new map and put functionality and player experience before the "it's pretty!" effects.