are fighters with spyglass/battleship scanners OORP?

[Thargoid]

This certainly is an issue. Implementing another kind of cloak someone mentioned (I think sindroms) that runs on little fuel but only hides you from scanners would answer this Issue. And I said implementing a new one not replacing the current one.
Either way. Many hours of brainstorming or programming will be needed to resolve it.

What's to stop traders using it to bypass pirates on the lane? We're already limited to shooting the lane when we see a trader due to the lane bug and countless NPC spawns.

Regarding your other point, this has nothing to do with traders using a spyglass/BS scanner, like I said, after hundreds of encounters using a Spyglass myself, I've only ever seen one trader jump out of lane at more than 15k, and I know the guy, he uses a 25K scanner.

There are simply less people trading along with a low player count most of the day.

The biggest tool to a trader for pirate avoidance, is the player list, as soon as they see LR- or LH~ tags, they fly 15/16K above or below the plane. Thanks to my 25K scanner I've caught a few of these already.

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LH~ | [75th] | LR-