I think pirate factions have enough advantages on this site as it is. I run all lawful ships as pirating goes against my personal nature in RP or RL. Those that think this is a great idea are not looking at how this will hurt their food chain and need to consider this; I have 3 mining ships and plan on expanding to other territories. I have had pirates stop me demanding 3-5 mill when I was in Clydesdale Miner which holds only 550 units max and we sell at PoB for 2500-3000 cr per unit or 1500-2000 per unit to transports, so we let pirates destroy us or we attempt to escape.There is no real pay options due to the pirates looking at the word "ORE" and NOT paying attention to HOW MANY UNITS WE CAN CARRY and that ONLY certain ships and mining hard points will allow us "mining bonuses". It will not improve RP at all. In fact this will make it to where Miners will stop filling transports that are not their own due to the scanner inhibiting range and the increase likely hood of pirate encounters so you will see less and less ORE ships thus reducing pirates "PREY" options. Is THIS what you want??? A smart pirate does not go after the mining ships but waits for the 2000-5000 unit Transports so they will have 95% success rate in extorting their multi million cr demand and only foolish pirates and Newbies go after the Miners that fill transports. If this "scanner inhibit thing" was put into play I will probably stop filling all transports except mine and a small group of friends. I mine all ORE at 1000-1250 cr per unit for all freighters and transports and this has been 50-60% of all my mining of late. Do you Pirates really want this to change?