1) A pod scanner which reveals implants in pods.

WHY!

a) Pods can be given a fair ransom creating a small wage for pirates who are non griefy types
b) Pilots with pimp implants now will have a chance to be offered a ransom rather then SQUISH EM SEE WOTS ON THE MAIL LOL

2) Corporation Hangers and Ship bays drop loot and be scannable

WHY!

a) To stop the "Lv 6 invisible black hole bag of item disapearance" that is orca cargo hold
b) To encourage ransoms, tithes of passage etc


There ya go, 2 ways to boost lowsec in 30 seconds.

Now can i work for ccp? I can make drawings of ships and sit looking really moody in the background of a promotional video?

while the ideas are good and fairly sound, the real problem is trust.
most pilots will be fairly cautious of ransom offers, since its not too uncommon for modern pirates to just take the money and harvest even more tears

while the ideas are good and fairly sound, the real problem is trust.
most pilots will be fairly cautious of ransom offers, since its not too uncommon for modern pirates to just take the money and harvest even more tears

Or, you know, have regular cargo scanners scan both corp bays and pods.
That's the only feature.

1) anti passive targeter modul

2) anti cargo scanner modul

And WTF POD-scanner? So no reson to scan a POD, it can't drob anything anyway!

Next time you die and are typing " I WILL PAY 4..." oh **** ive been podded, you know with pod scaner they would be taking a look at your implants and offering you a deal.

Confirmed. I for one would ransom and kill anyway.

Next time? ROFL!
1) if anyone manage to tackle a pod, he will 100% sure destroy it no matter if the victim pay a ransom or not
2) no change to status quo
3) before I would pay any wannabe mini rambo a ransom, I would selve destruct my POD!

Revamped bounty system and transferable killrights might encourage pirates to ransom and not kill since then there could be some actual consequences other than loss of sec status.

Sure, so you gain reputation as not honour ransom.

You are a dreamer.

99,99% of the current playerbase will NEVER know the name of any Pirate and even if, they don't care about his "reputation". Most of them see Pirates as what they are: criminal idiots, who want to kill other peoples fun.

And with this, there is nothing like "reputation" for Pirates. Any victim knows: if my POD is tackeld, I can buy new implants and my day is ******.

So what is to complain about pod scanner?

It is FAR to easy and has FAR to less risk for Pirates allready! There is absolut no reason, to make Pirates life even more easier!

You know Risk v Reward ?? Yes you do !! It's this stupid brain dead argument Pirates, null and low sec player ALLWAYS bring.

WHERE IS YOUR RISK ???
Sec status ?? MEGA ROFL
No win from ganking ?? IMPOSIBLE as you know 100% what your vitim is carriing looooooong before you gank him !!

And he can do NOTHING to avoid this as there are NO COUNTER MODULS for pasive targeter and cargo scanners !

Atm there are just two workarounds to counter this damn OP moduls which make Pirate life so ******* easy.
Transport contracts .... your next wish right? Transport contract scanner? ROFL !
Corp Hangers in Orcas.

So before you have the right to ask for anything .... ASK FOR DAMN BALANCE SO YOUR VICTIMS GET THE SAME CHANGS AS YOU !!

So most would take.

You are confusing high sec ganking with pirating. Is a different profession.

Ohhh .. ok, let's remove any ship scanner ... shot first then ask. No reason to wast time with scanning before looting.

Ups sorry, I forgot you want to scam ISK before you loot.

Ok now you annoy me, when I capture your pod i will impose 14% extra on ransom demand as penalty for forum rubbish post.

1) if anyone manage to tackle a pod, he will 100% sure destroy it no matter if the victim pay a ransom or not

Pretty much wrong.
Plenty of people i met are honoring ransoms.

1) A pod scanner which reveals implants in pods.

WHY!

a) Pods can be given a fair ransom creating a small wage for pirates who are non griefy types
b) Pilots with pimp implants now will have a chance to be offered a ransom rather then SQUISH EM SEE WOTS ON THE MAIL LOL

2) Corporation Hangers and Ship bays drop loot and be scannable

WHY!

a) To stop the "Lv 6 invisible black hole bag of item disapearance" that is orca cargo hold
b) To encourage ransoms, tithes of passage etc


There ya go, 2 ways to boost lowsec in 30 seconds.

Now can i work for ccp? I can make drawings of ships and sit looking really moody in the background of a promotional video?

Pritty much wrong.
Every time someone tackled me in low/null I was dead before I could write a singel word.

b) Pilots with pimp implants now will have a chance to be offered a ransom rather then SQUISH EM SEE WOTS ON THE MAIL LOL

I can see scannign a pod.. Just to see if its worth the ammo. But to keep ransoms on the up-and-up. Why not have a "Ransom" selection and then a "contract" type window pops up. Treat ransoms like contracts... since, in essence, they are. If either party defaults, they lose:

The Pod being ransomed doesn't pay - POP!!!
The pirate pops the pod after completion of ransom payment, the payment reverts back to the one being held ransom.

Just a thought.

They probably shot you because you cannot do a few things.
A) spell properly
B) form coherent sentences
C) articulate simple points in an understandable manner

And you disqualified yourselve as just the worst trolls need to grap the "bad english" toolkit when they are out of propper arguments.

Fat Fail Forum Troll
or
FFFT

Pirate tears? Are these worth much on the market?

And Jojo, if you're not trolling, you need to find a new game

Good point, but this is already the case with ship ransoms, and "reputable" pirate corps will gain / have gained a reputation as being good for their word.

If a pod pilot thinks he might not be able to trust the enemy pirates, a suitable lower figure can be negotiated eg:

Pilot in pod scrammed has 3 bill in implants (crystal set)
Pirates offer him 1 bill ransom to be let go
He dosent really trust them and offers 500 mill as his assessment of risk/reward ratio
Pirates accept, and pod flys off

An incentive for "honourable" pirating will be the reputation gained by sticking to your word. Then the honourable pirates can demand a higher payout.

You are a dreamer.

99,99% of the current playerbase will NEVER know the name of any Pirate and even if, they don't care about his "reputation". Most of them see Pirates as what they are: criminal idiots, who want to kill other peoples fun.

And with this, there is nothing like "reputation" for Pirates. Any victim knows: if my POD is tackeld, I can buy new implants and my day is ******.

WHERE IS YOUR RISK ???
Sec status ?? MEGA ROFL

No win from ganking ?? IMPOSIBLE as you know 100% what your vitim is carriing looooooong before you gank him !!

And he can do NOTHING to avoid this as there are NO COUNTER MODULS for pasive targeter and cargo scanners !

Atm there are just two workarounds to counter this damn OP moduls which make Pirate life so ******* easy.
Transport contracts .... your next wish right? Transport contract scanner? ROFL !
Corp Hangers in Orcas.

So before you have the right to ask for anything .... ASK FOR DAMN BALANCE SO YOUR VICTIMS GET THE SAME CHANGS AS YOU !!

You are a dreamer.

99,99% of the current playerbase will NEVER know the name of any Pirate and even if, they don't care about his "reputation". Most of them see Pirates as what they are: criminal idiots, who want to kill other peoples fun.

And with this, there is nothing like "reputation" for Pirates. Any victim knows: if my POD is tackeld, I can buy new implants and my day is ******.

With all your arguments ....

Why do you have a problem to introduce balance?

PvP players allways cry for balance ... but it seams, they only cry, when it favors their Sandbox ... which is NO balance!

You have a tool to see, what I carry around ..... where is my tool to stop you from doing so ??
Active modul called: "Cargo Cover Field".

You have a tool to lock me without me beeing able to detect it ... where is my modul which let me detect it ??
Active modul called: "Improved lock detector".

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while the ideas are good and fairly sound, the real problem is trust.
most pilots will be fairly cautious of ransom offers, since its not too uncommon for modern pirates to just take the money and harvest even more tears

You are a dreamer.

99,99% of the current playerbase will NEVER know the name of any Pirate and even if, they don't care about his "reputation". Most of them see Pirates as what they are: criminal idiots, who want to kill other peoples fun.

And with this, there is nothing like "reputation" for Pirates. Any victim knows: if my POD is tackeld, I can buy new implants and my day is ******.

Which is why the game itself would need some kind of system to manage/enforce it, which isn't sandbox.

Some kind of click box, first to offer terms, second for the victim to accept or decline, and including a time limit.

When terms are sent, all modules on both parties deactivate except for the point, and capacitors are frozen.

Click decline ont he offer, and it's fire-fire for both parties. Click accept, and the victim who accepted would become untargetable for 10 seconds (to warp out).

Thats the only way it would work, and even then it's only good for 1 vs 1 situations. And I'd be no one anywhere actually wants that.

Hecne we got what we got, only an absolute moron would pay a ransom, and ransoming anyone but total noobs is not a legitimate profession in EVE, because we all know not to trust piwates to their word.

So choose which evil is lesser, a system enforced ransom system (which would allow it to be a profession), or the current situation of no limitations and generally, no ransoms.

More wannabe Pirate tears plz rofl lol omg
Yes, stop your postings, they make no sense anyway.

fail carebear idea spotted,.... how many pvp fitted ships do u know that have extra mid slof for a scanner?

Exacly,... none.. better cry first how every ship needs extra mid slot

Suggestion 1 is idiotic. Why?
Its a huge waste of dev resources.

Relative to the total game its actually quite rare that you are able to hold and scan someones cargo in lowsec.
Its going to be even more rare that they have implants worth rasoming and even more rare that they are willing to pay.

I could care less if such scanners existed - but its the last thing we need dev resources wasted on.




If you want to encourage piracy - get rid of jump freighters.

Module Scanners already have a random chance of showing the correct items. Sometimes you wont see modules that are there, sometimes you see multiple modules when there are only 1

Visibility we already have a situation where by a big red beam shoots out of the scanning ship, and a noise will play on the haulers client (if he has sound on). Its easy to see if you are being scanned if you are alert (interestingly this was a suicide ganking nerf of about 2 years ago, one of a long long list of suiciding nerfs )

Active modules like you suggest are interesting ideas. It is of notem however, that pods have no fitting slots, so would not affect the op pod scanner suggestion

Confirmed. I for one would ransom and kill anyway.

Random changs == not in the hands of the victim

big red beam and sound == isn't that big at all (you can see it ONLY if you are very near to the scanning ship with the camera!!) and again not in the hands of the victim

This are NO counters !!!
Just very bad indicators.

And as a pod has no slot ... a pod scanner would be even MORE unbalanced as it is IMPOSIBLE for the pilot to counter such a modul!

If you claim to be "honoreble" ... you must watch out for REAL balance.
And not just for stuff which favors your Sandbox!