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This. It's much harder for my eyes to process the thin lines versus the old thick background bars.

1. Yup - we are aware of this one and it'll get fixed
2. There's a toggle that I'm just about to test on Sisi! We don't like adding too many toggles as it greatly increases UI complexity both for users and for testing, but this one we were cool with since so many requested it and gave good use cases for it.
3. Do you mean probe sphere? We are aware of an issue with picking when the probe sphere is near the edge. In the meantime, give the new ways of resizing that we added a try! We put in bindable hotkeys for resizing (you can set them in Shortcuts > Combat) and also Alt-Mousewheel.

more details about what you think is awefule.

the only issu ei had last night was i could not move probes, so i shifted back to the old interface. So what exactly is 'aweful'.

Looking forward to the improvements!

Two remarks, because not mentioned here:

... why did you change the placement of the dscan button to the left side? This is inconvenient for all folks who have the dscan on the left side (longer mouse distance from HUD/center). I presume most poeple have scanning stuff on the left side of the screen and overview stuff on the other.

... using both hands to rearrange probes (of a fixed formation) is a workaround but should not be mandatory. I need my other hand to operate the ship (e.g. CTRL) for targeting stuff on the overview, but even more important to hold the beer

Yeah that got mentioned elsewhere. Defect is in :)

Can't really comment on the "why", but we also added hotkeys for these buttons to mitigate any negative effects of moving the button itself. They are mappable in the Shortcuts > Combat menu.

EDIT: Whoops, submitted too fast!

To answer your 2nd question - I maybe don't understand the use case of moving individual probes in a fixed formation. I can understand it back in the day when we had no formations at all and each probe had to be moved manually, but isn't the point of fixed formations to get away from moving individual probes within them? Not trying to be obtuse, just don't get the use case.

This has probably been reported before but the new windows don't seem to remember the last focused window choice.

That means, when I have both the DScan and scanning windows stacked into the same window and I activate or switch to the DScan window it will automatically switch to the scanning window when I jump through a gate.

This behavior is rather annoying since I have to get back to the DScan window every time.

No no, you got me wrong, just to make sure there is no need at any time to press a modifier key for the operation of the whole formation, i.e. moving it around the map (and grabbing in the first place), resizing the whole formation, switch formation (pinpoint -> custom -> pinpoint).

The new scanning map is not an improvement on the old map, but many steps backwards. I've been saying the same things about the new map for over a year but have seen little to no improvements. First and foremost, the new scanning interface is significantly less useful for combat scanning than the old map. All of the feedback I've seen for the new scanning map so far seems to be written by people who do not do combat scanning but who casually scan a few data/relic sites here and there, and sure, the new scanning interface is fine for that. But for any type of intensive scanning, no, the new scanning interface is a waste of resources and multiple steps backwards from the old scanning map. Some reasons include:

1) The old scanning interface gave different icons for different signatures on the map. Different types of structures had different icons on the solar system, making it very easy to tell what was a player ship, what was a research lab, what was a POS gun, and what was a drone. The new map completely loses that functionality and instead displays all signatures—from cosmic sigs to player ships to structures to drones—with green dots, making it much harder to quickly sort through a cluster of signatures. (The one thing here I do appreciate is that in long lists of signatures in a cluster the new solar system map gives you a sidebar for scrolling through the list—this should be implemented to the old map.) The old map also had a way of “Stacking” a cluster of signatures in such a way that it was easy to tell what was a cluster of a dozen signatures (e.g. ships or structures) versus what was a single entity. On the new map we just see green dots that communicate no useful information unless we hover over them one by one.

2) Lag. The new scanning map is significantly more laggy and less responsive than the old solar system map. This is a huge issue both for people who run EVE on older computers as well as for combat scanning where time counts for everything. The lag kicks in especially when you pan or move the camera around to see different angles, which is something you do very quickly when combat scanning and the new map doesn't seem to like fast movements.

3) The font on the scanning window is significantly harder for me to read than the old scanning window, especially when there are dozens of signatures. The white font on green background on the past window is easier to quickly read than the white font on black that the new scanning window has.

4) Lots of people have points this out, but the scanning and dscan windows lack the same transparency levels that other windows have in EVE. They are much darker and less transparent.

5) Moving the probes is now more difficult. I don't really know why, but it seems as if icons on the map get in the way of the probe movement arrows more than on the old map. This is also an issue of lag and responsiveness it seems.

Not sure if this is known issue, but if you enable the new map and scanning interfaces, probes will work on the new map, but if you use F10 they are not usable on the classic map. I assume you'd have to disable the new feature and reload to get it working again?

This is what the probes look like on the classic map when this happens: http://i.imgur.com/mfx23YV.png

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