Ships & Modules

1. D-scan has a limited range but we are left with a "type-in-box" to set it. Why not add a slider like with the angle?

2. If D-scan is capable of what it's capable why there is no radar instead?

I mean there's already a mechanic which determines how it's difficult to probe a ship down. Why not apply the same mechanic to that radar. You could make its strength decrease with distance and angle and tie it to targets signature/sensor strength. This could spawn a whole new trend of stealth ships along with cloacked.

Example: a 360 degree max range radar will show smaller/stealthier ships if they're close enough. And big-ships(BS/Caps) respectively at almost all ranges. At the same time a low angle would allow to see small/stealth ships and greater distances but naturally you have to know where to look.

Honestly: why the d-scan resembles an ancient DOS programme rather than a nice GUI software?

More examples: Assuming that less signature and less sensor strength equal lesser range at which radar shows the target, frigates would be awesome at stealth. Maraduers in this regard would be more preferable than their BS couterparts in lowsec/nullsec/WH as they would be more difficult to locate. Ie their weakness becomes a strength.

EDIT: Add slider and not remove the box.

D-scan is a multispectral scan. Read up on the fluff before whining.

Also, stealthy is STEALTHY. Look THAT up, too. You don't think spaceships wouldn't be covered in radar absorbent materials?

Reason why a slider would be worse than typing is that you'd need a VERY wide slider to get the resolution nescessary to decide range to a ship you are scanning down. Bad idea.

Adding slider (with auto-update on the input field), ok, changing mechanics, no.

dscan is a tool from DOS era. powerful but far from being user friendly. it should be replaced by something more sexy

The current D-scan tool is awesome. You can shrink your resolution to however low you want it, within 2,147,483,647 km. Think about it like this..

Currently there are several systems in 0.0 where the stations literally sit right next to moon's w/ staging pos's. If you no longer have the ability to set a very fine resolution to the range, and instead have to use a slider, you can't set it to 999,000 km (assuming lets say the staging pos is at 1 million kilometers) and then know immediately when the enemy fleet has initiated warp into you. With a sliding bar, you're going to get some sort of incremental change in kilometers for every millimeter the slider moves and thus you don't have as much control over setting ranges which can be a very bad thing.

I'm not against having a slider there, so long as they don't remove the ability to input range values manually. Make it easier for everyone to use but don't take away the current functionality.

Dscan should have a slider yes.
It should also have an option to display distance in AUs (maybe in parentesis)

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You can only "ping" the d-scan once every server tick. It would take an enormous amount of players all constantly pinging on the same node in order to have any noticeable effect on performance.

Fixed for you !