Custom folders for D-Scan

EVE Technology and Research Center Player Features & Ideas
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I think this would be a great and useful feature. If we could put custom categories of our d-scan into folders… like how bookmarks are setup. You can expand and collapse them. So if I run a d-scan, it could show a folder each for ships, structures, npcs, control towers, probes, or whatever I wanted. And, it would be extra cool if we could assign a color to any folder. Maybe ships and probes would be red, structures blue, npcs green. Whatever I wanted. Just to see a quick summary or my scan with a number on the folder of how many contents inside.

Thanks!

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A ‘quick summary’ with folder structure doesn’t sound so quick to me.

By the time you collapsed the irrelevant sections and found the section you need your result may already be outdated and in need of a new scan.

Instead if I want to see a specific category with dscan I use my dscan filters.

Have you tried that yet?

Alternatively if you have a big scan and wish to analyze it or share it with others you can copy paste the list into a third party tool like https://dscan.info/

That way you can also keep using your directional scanner without losing the result you wish to look deeper in to, because your suggestion would get overwritten any time you do a new scan.

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No. Nope. Nadda.

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Is swapping your filters and copying/pasting into a third party tool faster? It’s an obvious subjective choice. I d-scan different filters and sometimes in high volume areas. Having an easy collapse of all ships or structures is super beneficial to me. And having it overwrite the folders with every scan is exactly the reason I would love to sort in folders. When scan probes pop up, I can see them in a red folder and still retain a sorted structure of all elements without having to scroll or expand or change filters of the d-scan. But hey, if you want more work for the same results, let’s keep it how it is.

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What if it was a personal choice? Why say no to something that benefits others, but you don’t have to use it that way? Seems selfish.

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Higher priorities.

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Swapping filters is done with shortkeys (1, 2, 3 etc.) and is instant.

Copy pasting into a third party tool isn’t done for speed but to analyze the dscan result and to share it with others. And more importantly, to store your result so you can continue flying and dscanning eithout losing the dscan of that fleet composition you just saw.

After all, if you are still looking through your old dscan result you cannot be generating new dscans and are thus flying half blind. I wouldn’t recommend it.

Besides being unable to make new scans to preserve old results your suggestion would also make regular defensive scanning less fast, as the folder structure will mean I have to scroll more or be busy clicking my dscdn window to collapse folders in between scans.

Generally I don’t click my dscan window at all, I just press the dscan key and glance. And a little later I press again and see if I now spotted that other player who just entered system.

Dscan is to be refreshed often, and to be looked at as quick as possible, not to be a giant structure of folders you need to search through because if it is your filters are wrong and you’re going to miss what is happening in space.

What I expect would hapoen if I had dscdn folders: I have the ‘probe’ folder collapsed and miss combat probes nearing my location, or the ‘ship’ folder collapsed and miss that ship on dscan.

No thanks, it’s going to take more space, more effort and more time to do with folders what can already be done more efficiently with filters.

Can you provide an example of a dscan result you want folders for?

I filter out structures when I don’t need them. Structures cannot sneak up on me and don’t move around.

My main dscan filter has ships, bubbles and probes only so I can spot danger in the least amount of time.

I have a second filter that shows the rest in case I want to find something less time-sensitive, or make a special filter if I’m after one particular thing.

Have you tried this way of working yet?