Class Specific Scanners

[Hidamari]

I like the idea of light fighters being useful in a scouting role - including something like an extended scanner range for them - but I'm not sure about the rest. I don't see, though, how the rest falls into line - the curve as a whole doesn't make sense to me.

I don't get why - logically - a bomber would have a smaller sensor range compared to a VHF or HF, or why adding extra room onto a transport would make its scanner less powerful.

tl;dr: I like the idea of scout fighters a lot - it was one of the first things I thought of when the scanner changes were announced - but the rest seems a bit sketchy.

Well i was trying to compensate for a lot of factors, balance, RP and general ship use. (which is a combination of the two)

larger transports are designed to make maximum profit, by sacrificing everything else, its not that their scanner would be any less powerful but that their need for escort is so great that spending extra money on a very expensive scanner when you can hire a guy to do it for a very tiny fraction of the cost is better for RP perspectives and balance ones, flying around with infinate range scanners and dodging all the pirates still making max profits, there should be big risks to big traders. and smaller risks to smaller ones.

as for bombers, they kill absolutely everything more or less 99% of the time, so the same thinking goes really, having mobile kill-all cannons flying around intercepting everything with thier infinate range scanners isnt really good for balance or RP, the proposal doesnt make them less dangerous in a fight, but more dependent on other ships to help them get into one. I think thats fair imo.

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