Ships & Modules

I ponder as to how the logic behind using a passive targeting system that stops your target from getting a You're being locked on warning, then using an active system to scan that persons cargo without said person being able to notice.

Explain to me how it's possible to scan a ships cargo actively with them not noticing. How would you figure out what a ship contains passively? Look at how much light the shiney hull reflects? See what the ships speed is compared to what it should be giving an almost infinite combinations of substances.

Before you start talking about how changing it would be me care bearing and wanting to stop people from being able to sucide gank in highsec, but there's also an unequal equation here.

Both the ganker and the gankee have to prepare for the action, but with the passive targeting module, the favor always tips in the gankers favor. Whilst you could argue that it's the targets fault for having too valuable a cargo or something along those lines, and you would be making a fair point, i ask that you consider this instead: Where is the element of combat and pvp when one party isn't capable of knowing if he or she is threatened. You could always assume you're being scanned, but you can't ever really know now can you? If you're in a bigger ship, it's too late when they shoot at you, because that's the only warning you'll get, and you're toast. It's about as one sided as it gets.

I'm not saying remove passive targets, I'm just suggesting that passive targeting and active scanning may not make the most logical sense, and that it doesn't have a counter to it whatsoever.

Another thing I'm curious about is why it takes the same amount of time to scan a small ship and a ship capable of carrying fifty thousand such ships. Shouldn't a scan take longer compared to how large the scan target is? Picking out a target when it's blocking of the sun itself is easy, scanning through said target compared to a smaller ship should take longer because there's more space to go through.

I'd like you to comment about your opinions on the matter, and keep on topic please.

Explain to me how it's possible for airport security to see the contents of our bags, and how it's possible to Jump in a matter of seconds between stars in EVE? Answer these questions and you shall have the answer to your own question.

Ponder on that a while, before making another post.

The counter to ganking is not flying ISK piñatas in hubs and through pipelines.

The time you get shot at isn't the time you should start planning about what you should do about being ganked, it is the time when your preparations against being ganked have already failed.

Because miners and other suicide gank-bait players already fit their ships poorly enough without having a useless mod like that available to them to make it even worse.

Oh, so this game discriminates against the hearing impaired eh?

and that tells you who the target is .... errr ... how exactly ?

to the OP: don't try to argue logic here ... people use whatever benefits them (see the one example arguing real life vs fictional game above).

in that case you can simply assume that you are being scanned at each choke point .... (undock, gate etc.).

You do. It's called a cloaking device.

Extender Drakes are the best Haulers.

Personally I think the Damnation with slave implants and trimark rigs is one the best, or the Proteus with a cloak and slave implants along with trimark rigs, all setup for max EHP. Nothing like having a sig of a BC or cruiser with more EHP than a jump freighter, and a cloak you can warp in if you go with the T3. You have to be really unlucky/stupid to get suicide ganked in one of these.

Now the extender drakes, those are good too for price/performance and sheer, ahh crap a drake don't bother kind of mentality you may get from it's reputation.