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Eternal Fire
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Posted - 2007.01.04 02:14:00 -
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Edited by: Eternal Fire on 04/01/2007 02:14:46
Scanners used to be able to pick up NPC ships in asteroid belts but now they can't. Ratting especially in low sec is a lot more time consuming and inconvenient probably resulting in even less people wanting to bother. Lots of belts seem desolate now to me. Please can we have NPC scanning back?
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Eternal Fire
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Posted - 2007.01.04 02:25:00 -
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Edited by: Eternal Fire on 04/01/2007 02:25:25
I just wonder if they realize that it is causing even less people to go to low security systems other than just passing through.
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Eternal Fire
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Posted - 2007.01.04 02:33:00 -
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Edited by: Eternal Fire on 04/01/2007 02:36:15
 Originally by: Nikla Uthaan
It doesnt matter really. Scanning NPCs in belts is silly, because when you belt rat you're after Hauler/Faction spawns,,, the only way your scanner will find them is if someone was silly and left them behind alive, because rats *only* spawn when you fly to a belt, and stay there if you leave.
Thats only part of the picture though. Lots of times people will kill a few 'regular' spawns and then leave. Then a short while later a faction spawn may pop up which would be open for anyone to find on the scanner.
I have found quite a few this way just by flying around and scanning while warping through systems.
While it is true that you need to warp to the belt to initially spawn the NPC, once someone does that they continue until the next downtime. All it takes is a few ratters warping around before you have a constant 'flow' open to everyone to pick up on the scanner which was possible in the past.
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Eternal Fire
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Posted - 2007.01.04 05:30:00 -
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Originally by: ollobrains
u now need to warp around its a much better idea actually
Originally by: B1G DAVE
Why dont you stop being so lazy and actually fly to the belts and take a look. Things arent supposed to be easy and quick, in rl you ahve to work for your money, same should be true for isks in eve
Then according to these reasonings, why don't you remove player ship scanning also? Shouldn't you have to warp to every single belt to find someone if using the scanner is the 'lazy way'?
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Eternal Fire
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Posted - 2007.01.04 06:40:00 -
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Edited by: Eternal Fire on 04/01/2007 06:40:48
Originally by: Athanasios Anastasiou
1. Have you ever though about the fact that players can be in locations other than belts and gates?
2. NPC scanning is too abusable, that's the main reason why will not support it being brought back.
Yes, thats what scan probes are for.
I fail to understand why it is so abusable other than some minor issues which could have been easily fixed rather than to scrap it altogether.
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