New pirate scanner idea

[Binski]

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*

Try that with 2 LH at gates and you will see how scout is useless if pirates are experienced players.

I have traded for majority of my time here, untill I joined LH. Even at LH I trade quite a lot. I trade stolen goods too... The player count is all time low, and allowing tools to lower interaction count even more is counter productive to server population.

All I see here is traders whining that BATTLESHIP scanner might actually be made for BATTLESHIPS only and deny the chance to silently drop out of lane at 20k to cruise the pirate around.

First of all, Pirate interaction, is not mandatory and no one guaranteed it to you when you started playing. You can't just say all player interaction MUST be pirate vs trader. And you can't just throw away a lot of people's work because population drops. Maybe you should pirate less for a while, trade or RP as something else, instead of thinking in terms of taking something away from someone that they worked for, for obvious reasons. A successful trader is one that can avoid pirates. So you can't just say piracy is the only form of player on player interaction. If you want more interaction while population is low, go fill the gap, instead of using it as an opportunity to force changes in your favor. No one NEEDS to pirate, and if pickin's are slim, fly another ship/char, thats what I do. I'd never suggest making changes to screw someone else over for my own benefit.

And I agree, 2 LH at gates makes scouts useless. It then also makes removing BS scanners from traders just as useless. If you have some experience like you said, you'll find a way to out wit your opponent, not just hack off their equipment one thread at a time.

I think certain people are thinking in terms that allowing traders to avoid pirates with long range scanners lessens player interaction. Well no one makes you pirate though. The way I see it, favoring pirates in this way, will lower player interaction. If its just interaction you seek, you may not always get it on your favorite ship (like your LH). Log as an escort for once and see what happens. You can still get the interaction without forcefully lopping off trader's BS scanners. What you really want, is your preferred interaction, over the traders. Why should snub pirates win over them? And I'm not even a trader that uses a BS scanner for trading, I use if for piracy!

Originally there was never any nerf for a BS scanner, so it wasn't actually made for only battleships. Whining brought a nerf, which was a compromise, and seems to be fair the way it was implemented. What I see are people who just want any advantage a trader might have over snub pirates taken away, and decry 'INFOCARD' as an excuse, like people are really losing sleep over the consistency of its infocard. Thats called 'an excuse' to get what you really want. People are just hiding behind the description to not look so petty about their real goal.

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