Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Agent finders are useful in highsec war times, though, if this was to be put in place it would make agent finders work even harder. Though if i still think we should go to a Delayed Local if not remove it altogether. It would less the server load.

True it might not change the Server load. Depending on how Active people are using the scanner mods.. Be it active or passive.

Using sensors not local chat.

We are hunting with space ships, not social networks.

It may be interesting to note the following:

I believe that it is possible if not likely that local chat being used for system awareness of targets and threats is actually getting in the way of social interaction.

Let me rephrase that to be more straightforward.

Because people are using Local as a tool for offense and defense, they are avoiding using it for actual social action like chatting.

Why?

Because for every hunter looking for targets, seeing one chatty in local puts their name in front of the hunter more often.
If you are not safely docked up, they are seeing advertisements about you being present with every chat you enter.
Even if you are safely docked, they may want to object to your comments with weapons on their ship.

Why would a cautious player risk drawing attention to themselves by chatting in local?
Their corp mates are in a separate channel, as is their fleet partners.

Local can't truly be a social tool so long as it is used for hunting.

Best version of true sensor use I seen yet.

We aint playin some cheesecake Team Halo Fortress whatever.

/agree

Here is an aspect I have been refining, and I think I have it ready to roll out.

What advantage can sov holders employ to help defend their space?

Using the previous example comparing sensors in active mode to shining a flashlight, sov holders can anchor and use street lights.

Now, that is the equivalent by analogy, obviously not a literal pole with a lamp on the end.

These would be anchorable signal Broadcasting Points, (BP), usable by friendly ships instead of an active scan's direct broadcast.
Like an active scan, any ship in range can tell the BP is present, and which direction it is.
Unlike an active scan, the sensors on friendly ships are able to use this broadcast signal to see other ships with. The same as if they had emitted the energy pulse but without giving themselves away by doing so.

Theory of operation: Each BP has a range for broadcasting. Any ship entering that range has a progressively weaker / stronger signal hitting them, based on the distance between the BP and the ship.
That ship in turn has a detectable interruption in the signal that any ship close enough can see with it's sensors.
(BP Range) - (distance from BP to target) = (range from target that target can be seen)
Sample: BP range is 20AU, and target ship is 15AU from the BP. 20 -15 = 5, So any friendly ship within 5AU of the target ship can see it on passive sensors with accuracy as if they had active scanned.

As shown by the basic formula, a ship on the edge of the BP won't be visible for a great distance, but a ship that lands close to the BP will be visible for a much greater distance.

So the whole streetlamp broadcastin point is just to let pilots have a home system advantage.
Since the invaders can't see anything but the lamps, they either active scan or stay blind.

Sounds simple enough. I am assumin that these lamps would be a target for attackers then.

Bump for attention

I have been trying to do that.

The OP, as well as the number 4 post, are the collected aspects of this idea.