New pirate scanner idea

[Binski]

And what stops Pirates in Transports using a BS Scanner themselves (though I have seen some using them)? Most Traders that I see don't use BS Scanners.

This appears, to me anyway, just a thread for Pirates, to once again, make it easy for them to do what they want and have an easy life.

I regularly see 'death messages' of Traders by the hands of Pirates so the problem can't be that prevalent.

Battleship Scanner on tradeships is a cancer. The fashion spreads out, destroying possible interactions. Indie Pirates are then left to seek action in capital systems and demand cash from battleships because that is so high quality RP.

As for this, the amount of kills I see with a certain named LH name attached to it, it can't be that much of a problem.

Exactly. This is a thread for whiners that can only pirate in bombers and just want to funnel traders to them while they sit on a trade lane or jump gate. They don't want to try, just want to force other people to take a hit to make it easier to attack them. I think ALL of these 'many' traders using what's allowed ( and accepting the nerf) that are 'ruining' disco by doing so should just leave if they remove BS scanners for traders. I know I will. Then these bomber babies will have lots to pirate. Why don't you all develop some skill instead of trying to lower that of everyone else's. I pirate using a BS scanner. I take the nerf and am still successful. These guys just think that their amount of posts indicates that they know what they're talking about. Although I now realize I'm probably dealing with a bunch of kids that don't even actually care about balance.

I think they're done changing the scanners for a while to appease the minority. But in the end, none of this would be necessary if they had never nerfed scanners at all, and regardless of it saying 'battleship' in the almighty infocard, you could slap one on your warrans and be back on a level playing field. Well we took the nerf and moved on. So go hire a transport with a BS scanner to help you if you're that worried. Now THAT is called 'player interaction' and it might increase player activity by doing so!

OMG miners/transports using BS scanners? Apply some tactics, encircle them, etc, cut of their escape routes before you go ambush them in the ore fields. Or if you're by yourself, and can't catch a ship mining in an ore field because they have a BS scanner, then just admit you're not up to the task, and move on to something else. Why you would then think 'force the removal of BS scanners to make it easier for me' can only be explained if you're a bunch of spoiled brats that don't take anything your 'opponents' have been working on into consideration while you greedily troll the systems looking for your next blue message (cuz we all know we pirate in snubs for the cargo right?).

The real problem is lowering population and lack of traders in general. Even when some are using BS scanners, you can still catch many IF YOU ARE TRYING and playing the game, instead of sitting by a gate 'RP'ing'. If you want to succeed in piracy, worry less about your RP and more about your ability to pirate. Don't take it out on the trader who worked for his scanner and ought to have that advantage by doing so.

EDIT: Besides, this really reeks of conspiracy. You do realize that even a trader with a 16k ranged scanner can still hire a scout and still manage to avoid you bomber squads steaking out the lane/gate? Hiring one scout can make all of these proposed changes totally useless and you'll be back to square one. *facepalm*

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