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I tested it with the same settings:

earth start: 15 fps
barnard's star: 20 fps

It seems to have improved the performance a lot near the station

There's very little performance impact from detail settings. From everything very high to everything very low I get maybe 10% more fps But from what I remember it's mostly always been that way. Higher detail just spent more time loading the terrain, it didn't do much for performance ver git (48fa9ae...

The new version is unplayable for me.

pioneer-20141118:
earth start: 55 fps
bernard's star: 300 fps

current:
earth start: 13 fps
bernard's star: 3 fps (the new station)

PC:
core 2 quad
8mb ram
radeon 7770
linux64 with fglrx

The standard way to contribute is on github: https://github.com/pioneerspacesim/pioneer There are notes on how to do this on the wiki: http://pioneerwiki.com/wiki/Using_git_and_GitHub It can seem a bit complicated but learning git is very useful and tens of thousands of projects use the same workflo...

I think the scanner is mostly meant visual range orientation. It's small and there's no way to tell what exactly the objects are for it to be useful much beyond it. You can change SCANNER_RANGE_MAX to see how it would look.

How about a button that toggles through three states - off, boxes only, boxes with orbits?

The maximum is 100km. It's set in src/ShipCpanelMultiFuncDisplays.cpp:

static const float SCANNER_RANGE_MAX = 100000.0f;

Maybe a quick bandaid would be to make the face pictures smaller? That way they wouldn't be so... startling

The smaller scanner is now in as an option, so feedback would be good.