Tried a mining run, lets compare old to new system!
I normally just run and drop probes, dont excavate directly. This works well with the new system.
If I dropped enough I normally start to excavate from first claim and use vehicle (a fast one, not a VTOL) to go as fast as possible from one claim to the next.
How it worked befor. Reach a claim jump out of car, equip finder, start excavating with autouse. Have Inventory open to select next claim deed and show on map.
Here is first problem:
Claim map is 4x the size than befor (much to big) and bad positioned, even when moving the map window it takes to much from the screen. If you switch to smaller map size, it does not hold the focus centered on the claim or your position, it goes to bottem left corner of the large window, you lose visibility of claim and your own position. So this isnt an option. To keep map open, as I did befor is not practicable as it is simply to big, which is very anoying while driving to next claim.
While excavating the claim and after checking next claims position at map, I normaly used to place the car directly in front of me and already turning into the direction I have to go to next claim. No longer doable, placing vehicle stops autouse tool, very anoying! Additionally the bad 3rd person (OTS) camera! If you jump out the car 1 sec to early and have to walk just a few steps to the claim, then car isn´t in visible range anymore and cant even interact with it, without moving back to it.
When claim runs dry, I normally jumped into car (perfectly placed in front of in old system), and drive to the next claim. At next claim rinse and repeat.
But there is another problem:
If I jump out of vehicle, equip the excavator and press F, it does not interact with the claim (it should interact with claim first when excavator is equipped), but it interacts with car and you simply reenter it. Not very comfortable.
Next thing is slower run speed. Agility doesn´t count anymore, thats a major anoyance for miners.
On top of that, when I excavate in 3rd person view (autouse) the ground is shaking up and down, and no camera setting I tried solved that problem. This constantly shaking is making me very dizzy and causes headache after a while.
I still dont get what MA thought when they made this new thing, it is so anoying and this VU didn´t really improve it to an standart we have had befor.
What I actually like is seeing the resource in a claim when claim is selected from distance and the mouseover info to the claim deeds in inventory, as you no longer need to view info to know what resource it is.
If they add the claim size to this info, this would be an awesome feature!
Still dont like the new system, as it makes my mining a lot slower than befor.
Losing time at every claim compared to old system.
Thanks MA for your ideas of improving my game experience, but you failed completely!