Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Posting separate of the Combat Recon changes thread.

Instead of making one class of ship(Combat recons) immune to D-scan.
How bout making some solid changes to D-scan across the board.

Like making the results being range based, with complete results only possible at shorter ranges.

(Long range)Object ->(Mid range) Ship ->(Short range) Ship type

Possibly making it based on sig or ship class. So you could still give certain ships a D-scan advantage but not making them completely OP with no downsides.(Like how Covert cloaks are balanced)

Making off grid combat recons that can deal some hurt a mandatory threat is bad game design. For all secs of space, and almost all play styles outside of gang/blob.

Not sure what assumption you're making,I think you may be confused.
My idea posted has nothing to do the the angle of scan, but that could of course be used to add more depth to D-scan as well.
Possibly making a D-scan compass like the sig compass(but not automatic). So then if you want to know what exactly an object is you can narrow your scan in the direction it shows its coming from.

How bout being constructive, and helping me flesh out the idea. Instead the atypical pretentious forum response. Or at least explain in some more detail what you're trying to say!?!

Seeing your post from the recon thread. I see you're inability to add anything to the discussion is consistent.

D-scan does work fine, but CCP-Rise has decided to mess with it with D-scan immunity.
Instead of simplistic game breaking passives. We find a middle ground by working with what we already have.

If you're for D-scan immunity, then your contradicting yourself. Because at that point D-scan will be broken.

The only dscan-related change I want to see is that it only reports hull types. I.E. Eagle = Gila = Onyx = Moa because they are all based on the Moa hull. Example: you dscan a Brave fleet and you see 150 moas and 50 scythes. You have no idea the exact number of Moa/ Eagle/ Onyx/ Scythe/ Scimitars because they have overlapping hulls. It could make things really interesting.

That being said I don't know if this would end up making the game better or worse, still kicking that thought around, but it would be interesting.

Dscan works fine but that isn't to say it can't be improved.

I'm not necessarily for any changes but I think with the proposed change to combat recons it could be interesting to look at other potential angles - I quite like the idea that you could maybe have an increased in range of dscan functionality but a decrease in the range of accurate results.

I made my own thread for Dscan today too.

My 2 cents worth: Like many things in the game, D scan should not have absolute results. Rather, it should be possible to detect any ship with enough power (mods, skills, etc which we don't currently have) and good technique with the scanner, but some ships should only be detectable at short range with max power. None of this "It's cloaked so it absolutely never gets seen" stuff.

I suggested in the other thread making a new thread on the subject as while there is some overlap with the combat recon changes it is also somewhat of a tangent to the topic of that thread as there is potentially some interesting things that could be done with dscan (that isn't to say they should be done but its interesting to see what people think on the subject).