New pirate scanner idea

[Binski]

I've played since early 2012 and the BS scanner was always mountable on anything since as long as I've been on here. Call it a beta, if its like this way most of the time, its not a beta anymore. Its just the game. Beta's don't go on for years at a time.

I made no personal attacks on anyone in particular. They were mere generalizations based on my observations and I know I'm not the only one that sees that happen quite often.

A BS scanner on a trader does not guarantee they will 100% of the time evade pirates. It gives them an advantage that can easily be worked against in game without needing to change the current set up.

25k is not as ridiculous as so many of you seem to think it is. At cruise speed, two ships moving directly towards each other will close in within a minute. If both had the same 25k range, the odds of managing to keep up with the evading ship by moving in the same direction are as even as going the wrong way. The gap can be closed pretty quick.

Give the same scanners for the pirates.

Ironically, before the nerf, the playing field was equal to everyone, which is why i never understood why people wouldn't just mount one themselves instead of having the high and mighty pretentious sentiment that it 'doesn't make sense' like they are telepathically linked to the game somehow.

Everyone who disagrees with me is a whiner.
Everyone who disagrees with me just does so because I have less posts.
Everyone who thinks BS scanners are op simply needs to get good.
Everyone who complains about them is just mad that they lost.

No, it is very much so whining by people that feel they don't win often enough when they fly around with duel novas looking for a big fat slow transport to grill.

Snub piracy is NOT in ANY WAY, SHAPE, or FORM skewered in favor of bombers. Transports can thrust away mid lane to the nearest base. They can cruise away with the help of BS scanners and the pirate bombers are too slow to catch up.

Whoever thinks that transports can just fly away from bombers in just insane. So you think a transport that runs into a bomber mid lane will just 'cruise away to the nearest base with the help of BS scanners, and that somehow the bomber will not destroy that transport regardless of its scanner, and most certainly catch up to any transport.

Actually, speaking from my own personal experience, using a BS scanner has ensured I have had more player interactions. I've helped others track evading ships while in a group to help the group pursue the other ship.

Also it has made sure I can catch up to other ships in pursuit of piracy by knowing where they before they know I'm there. It works to keep my numbers up and I can prove that. All of this over some transports that can ditch the lane nice and early. It just seems excessive, and hardly as op as its made out to be.

Yes, as a trader, this scanner would be used to successfully evade possible pirates when cruising or using the lanes. Again, nothing a scout won't achieve as well, but they aren't always available now are they? And being a little pro-active rather than camping can compensate for ships dropping from the lane at a safe distance.

And then as well it gets suggested to give snubs a magical long range scanner which would also be op. Battleship scanners being OP because of their name and infocard are no less op than a CAU8 on a gunboat. It was practical to have a long range scanner for everyone, which kept the playing field level, just like how the CAU's are able to be used by any ship with the cargo space. Can't use a CAU8 on a bomber? Of course not. So same with the BS scanners now? Ok, thats not that crazy. Everything transport/gunboat up seems reasonable with the new nerf system.

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