Signature sphere sizes completely inconsistent

[Gerard_Amatin]

@Dyver_Phycad

However, in that case it would be a poor and unintuitive design, which is apparently something CCP does not like in this day and age.

Various of EVEs game mechanics are initially unintuitive, but as long as they behave consistently and with some logic you can learn them and get intuition for them.

I think exploration is a good example that can completely confuse new players but usually is very intuitive for experienced explorers.

We know that the results we get aren’t totally accurate and that we have to fine-tune our scans until we get an exact location.

@Dyver_Phycad

What’s also interesting is that this sig is a Tier 2 data site. If the original unscanned sphere actually represented the scan difficulty (ie. was proportionally smaller), this sig would be way outside the initially suggested scan area.

I think it’s good that that isn’t the case then!

@Dyver_Phycad

Newbs could be more confused and build distrust into what the UI tells them – which is probably not a bad thing, either, considering just how inaccurate, lying and misrepresentative all of CCP’s UI/UX in EVE is.

Some parts of the EVE UI are ‘lying’ and inaccurate by design though:

Scan results which aren’t 100%? Lying and inaccurate, train skills to improve accuracy.

Planetary industry material scans? Lying and inaccurate by design, train skills to improve accuracy.

But yea, EVE’s UI is sometimes pretty awful. The new character info window for one, and how laggy and unresponsive it all can be.

[Syzygium]

Just to add some data:

Today I found two sigs with an (unscanned) visibly different size of the initial sphere, right next to each other.

The smaller one turned out to be a Level III Data Site, the larger one a Level I Wormhole.