Line of sight

[Pel]

None of this would lag the server, but the devs would have to think it was important enough to make changes to all the planets in Sirius (not likely).

Or they would have to code something into scanners to recognize existing planets as an object that impedes scanners. Even then, it would probably be more like scanner jamming in proximity to a planet, not a "scanner shadow" for objects behind the planet. I doubt it would ever work the way you describe it in your first post-- ie. the directional or "line of sight" or "object in the way" effect might be hard to create.

But what do I know? Maybe a dev will pick this up as a cool project and show us a proof of concept next week.

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