Gaogan
Gallente
Solar Storm
Sev3rance
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Posted - 2009.02.11 17:26:00 -
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 Originally by: CCP Greyscale
Yes, this applies to ships, and yes it will make finding ships harder. Personally I'm happy with this - the current system is IMO too fast, and apart from anything else made ship probing far less common, in my experience. With the old old system people would use safespots because good probing pilots were rare and it took a long time. When the old system came in and everyone realized that there's no such thing as a safespot, the chances of actually finding someone (outside missions and so on) became much lower. I'm interested to see how this new system affects things.
That said, if you do have a strong opinion on this issue, please explain it here clearly :)
The OLD system ( pre exploration where you had to drop 3 probes on top of each other ) simply did not work at all. As long as the person you were trying to find was more than 1 au above or below the celestial plane, the probes simply would not find them.
The current system as it existed when exploration was added worked quite well. You could finally actually probe out those hostiles invading your sovereign space and give them the boot. Since then, two things have changed that have made scanning for ships all but useless. The first is that everyone and their dog now fits a cloak. The second is that at some point, the ability to scan people in warp was broken/silently nerfed. For many months after exploration was introduced, if your scan finished on a ship in warp, it returned the point they were warping to, so you could start heading that way, and if they were slow and/or were warping a long distance, you had a fair chance of catching them. Now you get a useless result in the middle of nowhere, so unless the person you are hunting is afk, you are wasting your time scanning for them.
If you are going to make it take a bit longer and be a bit more complex to scan for people, that's fine... it will be great if it actually takes some skill to do, but the ability for your prey to totally nullify your scanning by simply warping back and forth between two safe spots all day has GOT to go. It would also be really nice if there were a way to scan down cloaked ships, even if it is harder/takes longer.
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