Hasn't it been stated its OK to use the chat list as a long range scanner? If as a player untility you can use it to see who's online, and where, and generate an encounter, it actually makes more sense to be able to rp it was exactly that, a general detection without an exact location, within a general area, currently by system.
I think its better if people can be realistic about why they found someone, and people can easily make do knowing that when they are online they are that base level of detectable. It seems only fair.
But having said that I'd be ok to see it regulated, and say a pilot could only see so far inrp, like 2-3 systems, so people in Bretonia arent inrp tracking nomads way out in the omicrons. People use bots all over now and its giving people more knowledge about activity from afar, and its being used and played. So I wonder why not just acknowledge some long range detection. Ironically, I like the idea of making it an earnable capability. Perhaps like having a base gives you the ability to play the knowledge of players in that system, and surrounding systems. So if you wanted REAL long range tracking, it could be done with some work. Again, perfectly happy to simply see it regulated than the old way of acting like the chat list isn't there or isn't being used to observe each other.
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