After more than year, I reinstalled Elite and started moving back to the bubble from the core area.
Initially, I was happy with the feature, however, being away for a year and just another gimmick, I found it a failed feature - away from cockpit, repetitive gameplay, that actually hinders me from finding interesting stuff.
For example, by standard honking I found giant ice worlds, rocky moons with rings in close orbit, interesting color combos or even unusually jagged terrain - now all these things never show up on the scanner and remain unnoticed... because no way I will go through every system, and definitely not all objects. Back in the day, I used to honk and check M-star systems too.
Sure, the ability to find POIs on the surface is a huge advantage, but to me that doesn't offset the disadvantages.
Initially, I was happy with the feature, however, being away for a year and just another gimmick, I found it a failed feature - away from cockpit, repetitive gameplay, that actually hinders me from finding interesting stuff.
For example, by standard honking I found giant ice worlds, rocky moons with rings in close orbit, interesting color combos or even unusually jagged terrain - now all these things never show up on the scanner and remain unnoticed... because no way I will go through every system, and definitely not all objects. Back in the day, I used to honk and check M-star systems too.
Sure, the ability to find POIs on the surface is a huge advantage, but to me that doesn't offset the disadvantages.