User blog:BehindTheEight/The Recon Satellite Useful ?

Prior to release I started seeing Kixeye forum posts complaining about how the Recon Satellite was going to make it to easy to find Deposits ( specifically Thorium ). 

But I suspected, not having been on the test server but seeing a video of its function, that this was most likely not going to be that big of a deal. 

Everyone on the test server or seeing it in a video had a kind of false impression of its usefulness.  This was due to the fact that test server's have vast amounts of Rogue Deposits on them.  So when people view its function they saw it taking the player right to a Rogue deposit every time. 

Well that's not how it works. It takes the player to the nearest Deposit from their base regardless of whether or not it is a Rogue or owned by a player. 

Add to that it starts back at the nearest option every time you open the menu or select between the categories and what you get is a repetitive cycle through already owned Deposits most of which can be seen just by a quickly dragging the map around without the Recon Satellite. In order to make this feature a little more useful in my opinion Kixeye should make a few additions or changes :

• It should start its cycle with targets farthest away ( within its 50 per category range)
• Filter Deposit Selections by Player Owned / Rogue.
• Filter Player Bases by Friend / Enemy.
• Filter Rogue Bases by Level.

Kixeye might not have added these features because they didn't want to make it to powerful in finding Deposits. 

I can understand but I don't see any possible problem with adding the filters for the Player Bases and the Rogue Bases.

One unfortunate result of Recon Satellite Menu is the addition of another step the player must take to gain access to their bookmarks. 

It's usually not a good thing to add steps to things the players do often, but Kixeye as of late seems to be doing this a lot.  (  when i get a chance I want to do a post on the new Slide Building Menu .... Ugggg ).

Check out the new WCwikia page on the RECON SATELLITE.