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This is more of a suggestion than feedback on the current controls, but I was thinking how nice it would be to be able to set your ship's scanners or while on on ground missions to have the ability to set your tricorder to detect different things.
For instance, while in space, the scanner is useful for detecting anomalies, but you still have to visually confirm derelict ships, mining bases, and other interactive objects in space. The waypoint marker is useful for marking objects on the map, but only seems to drop one waypoint and as soon as I try and create another, it removes the first one.
I believe this would have much more of a "Star Trek" feel to it if we could adjust the scanners or the tricorder to enable detection of things other than just anomalies. Meh, just my take on it.
For instance, while in space, the scanner is useful for detecting anomalies, but you still have to visually confirm derelict ships, mining bases, and other interactive objects in space. The waypoint marker is useful for marking objects on the map, but only seems to drop one waypoint and as soon as I try and create another, it removes the first one.
I believe this would have much more of a "Star Trek" feel to it if we could adjust the scanners or the tricorder to enable detection of things other than just anomalies. Meh, just my take on it.
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I just dont get it. I never had any issue with finding anomalies and scanning doesnt seem to add anything to my maps? I just dont use it because i cant see what function it serves
Yes it is hard to find anomolies and you haven't noticed the blue beam of light that comes out of them now pointing to anomolies and objective (annoyingly without being able to differentiate between the two)
how can you NOT find anomlaies.... You can see them across the map. And they are usually right next to what ever it is you need to do. ARE PEOPLE BLIND
What does the scanner do that helps you find them? I still dont get.
But I agree with the rest of you, it would be nice if there was something to distinguish the differences that you are being directed to a mission objective, or it's directing you to an anomoly.
Options are always a nice feature, and having more options to tweak the scanner or tricorder would add more of a use them instead of being the novelty they are now.
It's not an issue of whether people can see anomalies or not if you have every followed Star Trek. We're talking about adding a feature to the game that was a feature from Star Trek. If you're in a ship and all you can detect are anomalies but can't use long-range scanners to detect other things, then you are flying one out-dated starship my friend!
http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=59035
in fact read everything in my Signature
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In Beta, you were only told how many anomalies were in the area and not given any indication as to where they were at. You had to do a scavenger hunt just to find them. To find mission items, they weren't marked as waypoints so it was a scavenger hunt to find those things.
Is it perfect? No, but compared to how it was in Beta it is great.
Being how they took out auto firing in ground combat, I don't think they are going to make scanning any easier since by their definition that wouldnt be "fun."