Am I the only one who is half and half then? I like the FSS, but only in as much as it replaces the surface scanning. I do sympathise about losing the system map honk reveal in it's old capacity as that makes no sense (FD should have kept it but just with less info until FSS was used).
I'm more the opposite. While I wouldn't mind if some of the old ADS functionality was added to an optional module, the sheer amount of useful information the system honk provided killed any sense of discovery for me, and with it any desire to explore. The FSS conceals enough system information to preserve a sense of discovery, while still providing enough system information to quickly make decisions on if there's any planets worth exploring in the system.
Thing is I'm also not a fan of the probe mapping system at all, that has got old REALLY fast for me and is becoming a tad irritating. Yes I fully realise mapping is optional and I do cherry pick what I map or not, but it's WORSE than the old surface scan because we have to get so much closer now and that multiplies almost everything I hated about the old surface scanning with making the SCing around more tedious with the gravity of the planets affecting Scruise. Although that's more an issue with Scruise I sippose I wish FD would allow the "pips" to affect Scruise so I could put more juice to the engines and accelerate and decelerate quicker (but burn more fuel obviously).
Personally, I restrict most of my probe mapping to worlds I intend to land on, or worlds that I'll want a closer look at anyways. Though I have to admit I sometimes probe gas giants just for the fish.
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