If we're using analogies, scanning is 'more than looking inside a car window'; it's akin to also capturing the license plate and VIN numbers. So in that sense, I think the intent is pretty clear. It means that if you scan - you takes your chances.

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Its a win-win for everyone involved EXCEPT the carebear scout whos too afraid to get his guns warm but still wants the loot. its pathetic really.

The fact is that you now know you've been scanned (Cargo Scanned) and that person is now "Suspect" and you can make a note of who scanned you. If you wanted to take action you could, if any residents wanted to take action they could but everyone loves to pile on a suspect timer .

This isn't about avoiding the gank (which is unavoidable by because the scanner tells the gankers how many ships they need to pop you) it's about making people think twice before committing the intent to commit piracy. As noted before it is the intent to steal that "gank scanners" get away with, the gankers are dealt with by Concord or whatever as they go into "Criminal" flag and possibly lose they're ships (not that they are that bothered obviously).

Why should the cherry-picking-scanners get all the odds stacked in their favour? It's like asking for a Pod\Implant scanner to choose which Pods to ransom and how much to ransom for.

Ganking is the symptom of which Cargo Scanning is the cause. You scan before you gank (if you're in it for the profit\loss I believe) and hence all the "Wahhh" in this thread.

ive never seen a bigger display of carebear crying!

"wahhh we wanna stealz yer stuff but dont wanna risk anything, please CCP i dont wanna lose T1 frig!!!!"

bunch of whining little scaredy-bears.

and put aside your personal agenda for like one second. this idea makes EVE, more EVE-y! its just a plain old cool idea and like many have said, its got real world roots.

and FFS, no one hauls AFK without having the money to back the loss.

AFK haulers rarely complain on the forums because they are too busy making serious bank and laughing at the ganker who thinks taking down one of his 15 freighters that day is a good way to make money.

There is none. But that's the way gankers like it - no risk.
Scan ship/cargo - nothing valuable, find something else. Find something shiny, gank it.

But players don't scan others cargoholds for contraband as "Customs Officer" isn't a career path in EVE currently, they scan them to pick the juiciest cargo. I'm still thinking about this idea and what you added above though. My comments not a flame just more of an observation but give me an IG actual example of someone playing "Customs Officer" and I'll retract

umm quote me his "point" and ill be super erudite about responding to it. at the moment all i heard was "please dont shoot me!!"

You can't user "Future" as a reasonable argument. Future development isn't current IG.

People 'scoping out joints' are generally found, thrown up against a wall and charged with being an accessory or aiding and abetting I believe but we can't do that in EVE.

It's the scanning that leads to the ganking I'm afraid. If you didn't know for sure what was in it then how do you know that it'd be worth the cost\risk of actually ganking it? You wouldn't. Now some people do gank anything just for the lols and they will but most do it for profit and will only hit what they think will payback +profit on their loss.

As for the disposable alts mostly used for ganking...well there's a flaw in the system that this clearly highlights don't you think? The fact that ganking and the chars used are so disposable would highlight that to me.

We understand that the illusion of fitting against a gank can be achieved however you cannot stop a dedicated gank (and I don't mean two ships) which destroys your ship in 1 volley. So what can you do? Look to the root cause. What caused those 20 T2 fitted Catalysts with 14400 damage in Volley #1 to pick that particular hauler? I'll let you think on that for a bit.

I'm sorry but I don't follow the "warp in for a dec" analogy. You'll have to expand on that one or explain "dec" to me as could be a number of things.

it doesnt matter WHERE you get scanned. it matters that they DO scan you. once they do, no matter WHERE you are, you run the risk of being shot.

And that there's no defence or way to combat the gankers except to just re-ship and try again?

...so even if scanners go suspect, the best counter to ganks are STILL and ALWAYS WILL BE:

1) carry less/take more trips
2) avoid dangerous systems
or failing both of those,
3) fly with scouts, logi, webbers, boosters and ECM buds.