It's ungodly slow VS how it used to be, rewards people who only care about money/cherrypickers, and hides 99% of the information I had before the update behind the dumbest "minigame" I have ever seen. Maybe some people have standards low enough that spinning around and zooming in is considered "fun and engaging" and "exciting" but I sure don't.
Spending usually 3-15 minutes just to get one damn system mapped isn't exciting. Not when you have hundreds of specific places to visit, now I have to decide when to skip a system entirely and when to take a chance because their is literally not enough time to do both.
I used to be able to jump into a system, scan, and look at every body. I could see distance from the main star, proximity to other objects, size of the object, whether they were binary or trinary and the like, I could guess if it was mountainous or flat, large or small. I found hundreds of interesting systems just based on the initial ads scan.
For example, I found a planet that orbits so close to the rings of a gas giant you could fly into its atmosphere if that were possible, it also orbits around the gas giant fast enough for it to be noticeably moving. And I figured it was a interesintg place because the ads honk showed it was the exact same distance from the main star as the gas giant was, so i knew it had a very close orbit to the gas giant. I didn't need the new exploration system to find that out, I literally just figured it out based purely on distance from the main star. And it took about 10 seconds to do so, I didn't have to spend what would have been probably over 15 minutes scanning a 80 body system just to find the one area that was interesting.
Now I have to spend 5-10 minutes playing a stupid mini game just to get the same information I had before. And God forbid I miss one.
FD killed an entire way of exploration, knew they were doing it, and didn't do anything about it.
I cared about every system I jumped too. I gave every system I jumped to a chance.
Now I can't do that. The only thing that saves me is that I'm really really good at finding interesting systems from the galaxy map.
Whereas before I explored every system in some form or another, now I only can only pray I didn't waste 10 minutes scanning something useless every now and then.
I wish FD would bring back the old ADS, let it do what it did before but give no credit reward unless you do a detailed scan of the planet up close.
Given a choice between money and exploration, I'd choose exploration every time. I hate this current system. It rewards people who care more about money then ever before and timegates the number of systems you can look into detail for by a absolutely massive margin.
It's not about "adjusting" like so many people who didn't understand what I was talking about said so long ago when the changes were in beta, I adjusted the day it came out. I just DON'T LIKE IT. The mere fact that I might miss an interesting system because I don't have time to spend 3-15 minutes to scan and look over every system eats at me to the point where I haven't gone exploring in over a year.
Spending usually 3-15 minutes just to get one damn system mapped isn't exciting. Not when you have hundreds of specific places to visit, now I have to decide when to skip a system entirely and when to take a chance because their is literally not enough time to do both.
I used to be able to jump into a system, scan, and look at every body. I could see distance from the main star, proximity to other objects, size of the object, whether they were binary or trinary and the like, I could guess if it was mountainous or flat, large or small. I found hundreds of interesting systems just based on the initial ads scan.
For example, I found a planet that orbits so close to the rings of a gas giant you could fly into its atmosphere if that were possible, it also orbits around the gas giant fast enough for it to be noticeably moving. And I figured it was a interesintg place because the ads honk showed it was the exact same distance from the main star as the gas giant was, so i knew it had a very close orbit to the gas giant. I didn't need the new exploration system to find that out, I literally just figured it out based purely on distance from the main star. And it took about 10 seconds to do so, I didn't have to spend what would have been probably over 15 minutes scanning a 80 body system just to find the one area that was interesting.
Now I have to spend 5-10 minutes playing a stupid mini game just to get the same information I had before. And God forbid I miss one.
FD killed an entire way of exploration, knew they were doing it, and didn't do anything about it.
I cared about every system I jumped too. I gave every system I jumped to a chance.
Now I can't do that. The only thing that saves me is that I'm really really good at finding interesting systems from the galaxy map.
Whereas before I explored every system in some form or another, now I only can only pray I didn't waste 10 minutes scanning something useless every now and then.
I wish FD would bring back the old ADS, let it do what it did before but give no credit reward unless you do a detailed scan of the planet up close.
Given a choice between money and exploration, I'd choose exploration every time. I hate this current system. It rewards people who care more about money then ever before and timegates the number of systems you can look into detail for by a absolutely massive margin.
It's not about "adjusting" like so many people who didn't understand what I was talking about said so long ago when the changes were in beta, I adjusted the day it came out. I just DON'T LIKE IT. The mere fact that I might miss an interesting system because I don't have time to spend 3-15 minutes to scan and look over every system eats at me to the point where I haven't gone exploring in over a year.
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