Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Let's compete with intel.

Love it.

Should have been in the game years ago.

CCP doesn't have the required equipment to make a change like this, unfortunately.

I feel the spirit of this idea holds what many of us hope for in EVE.

Will it ever be made into part of the game?
Maybe, but at the very least I hope the devs know this spirit is waiting here.

(BTW, I checked, this is your first post here, so Welcome!)

Unlocked upon request of OP.

If we're really going to nercromance this thread, let do some statistics:

Currently has 188 posts made over a ~15 month period (444 days) = 0.42 posts per day
Of which 71 have minimal to no content (including +1s and bumps) = 0.26 posts of substance per day overall
108 posts are by the OP = 57% of the thread contribution
29 posts are bumps (15% of the total).
22 of the bumps are by the OP (20% of their personal contribution)
If we assume an even ratio of content-to-noise (71/188 = 38% noise) for non-OP posts, there are only 50 non-OP posts of content = 0.11 posts of substance per day not by the OP

I'm not saying this thread doesn't have value, just that it's dead, Jim, and it's painful to see a dead horse resurrected like this. All that can be said has been said- the last post of any substance was 4 months ago.

I don't know when the thread was locked, but the fact that the OP had the thread restored and then proceeded to fail to add new content adds weight to the fact that this thread isn't going anywhere. It should have never been unlocked and needs to go back in the archives where it belongs.

Radar/Sonar... it's a nice idea, plenty of people are in favour of it in a vague sense and have wonderful ideas about how it might work and how cool it might be, but nobody knows how to turn it into a solid, balanced game mechanic and we're hoping developers will be inspired by this thread and one day come up with something like it.

/thread

The forums have rules. Since this thread has defined the topic, it owns the topic by default.

If someone else wants to try a different approach, AKA new content, that would violate the integrity of the thread by nature.
A different approach would require a separate thread.

We can refine the idea, we can discuss points of the idea, but the core of the idea defines the thread and must be respected.

Now, there is quite a bit specific to this, not at all vague, especially when you consider post 4's addition of how to handle sov's potential benefit by anchoring broadcast points.

If you think something is too vague, or needs areas defined that have been left out, say so.

Mmmh yeah, see like that, It could be a solution.

The pilot will still need to be active and refresh the dscan when non moving.

Another option would be to have d-scan relate to ship speed and sensor boosting.
D-scan could be a continuous effect, otherwise.
(The ships with counters to energy broadcasting, like the noted ships with covops ability, would be the only ones capable of maintaining detection capability in warp)
As pointed out before, sensors would be manually activated or shut down, as they would act similar to a beacon by sending out energy in active mode, which many opponents could detect.

Ship speed could reduce the effectiveness of sensors, as the ship would be throwing out energy in order to maintain it's momentum.
(I know, space in theory lacks resistance needing to be overcome, but EVE plays this way)
This energy being output by ship propulsion could possibly create a blind spot, simply reduce range by drowning out fainter items, or even both.

Sensor boosting, would work to increase range and reduce blindspots.

Quite possibly they could cancel each other's effects, depending on which had more impact on results for the net result.