Class Specific Scanners

[Hidamari]

Heres a post from 2010 I made on scanners, since scanners are getting more intricate in their implementation id like to put forward my idea again with a few changes, which had good karma back then too.


The idea was to have an theoretical valley, which balanced ships scanner potential based on their ingame purpose and size.



Larger warships have more powerful scanners as they are more often than not the center of a fleet formation and have to be able to see whats going on.
The smaller the warship the more dependent it is on external information gathering methods.

My thinking with the transports is that the smaller transports (which in many cases do not have a chance to survive any encounter with any hostile ship type), should get a better distance scan range as they sacrifice cargo space for it.
the larger the transport becomes the more it is simply a cargo hold with an engine attached to it (shetland), and would badly need escorting from any other available source. (encouraging bringing escorts!)

As for fighters

Light fighters sacrifice firepower (lol) for the ability to get into an area and gather as much information as possible from as wide an area as possible in the shortest time possible. perfect as convoy scouts or Fleet scouts,

heavy fighters, sacrifcing a little scanner potential for more weapons power, still pretty high scanner range though.

VHF, the bread and butter of sirius, regular 14K maximum range same old thing, can do a bit of everything but not as well as ships either side of it.

SHF and bombers are big ships, wich are designed to put out absolute maximum hurt on enemies, sacrificing everything for superior weapons output.


Thoughts?

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