scanner thoughts

[Ursus]

I would like to see scanners split into long-range (radar) and short-range (cargo). Warships and cargo ships need radar but do not need cargo scanners, while pirates and police need longer-range cargo scanners. So this kind of separation would facilitate different sorts of development based on motive. I dont know if its possible to define two scanner hard-points (should be) or if the scanners can be split by type (questionable).

Also, I said already somewhere else that I would like to see power drain so that the most powerful scanners interefered with shields and weapon power. One thing I remember from when I was actively poking at the freelancer config files is that you could redefine some types of equipment to use different types of mounting hard-points to apply cross-effects. As I remember, only the shield generators have constant power drain, but it was alos possible to define other types of devices to inherit shield generator effects by changing the hard-point definition, but I dont remember exactly how it worked. I would have to investigate more but I wanted to put the idea out there.

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