Originally by: CCP Greyscale

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- On the subject signal strength, skills and so on, I think we've killed two birds with one stone here. As it currently stands:
- Everything which used to give a scan duration bonus now gives a scan strength bonus
- Everything which used to give a scan strength bonus now gives a scan duration bonus EXCEPT the Virtue set
- Everything which used to give a deviation reduction still does
With max skills, a rigged covert ops now gives a 2.7x strength bonus. This means that the hardest ship to scan (non-prize for who knows which one it is, only ships that have legitimately been flown by players count) gives a strength of something like 98.5% with the combat probes at 0.05AU. This distance is roughly half the side-length of the scanning control cube at its smallest side, which means with the above bonuses you'll almost never have to have significant cube overlap for scanning ships. We're going to tweak down the strength of the very hardest exploration sites ever so slightly so they end up in about the same place.

These changes should both ensure that old skills, rigs and implants are still very relevant, and that the "I can't get any closer!" issue goes away once you skill up properly. (As a side-note here, I'm pretty sure that the math picks the four best probe results and ignores the rest, so dropping 8 around the same target slightly increases the chances of those four results being optimal, but doesn't directly contribute to the signal strength.)

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