The way I see it is you have to give up an equipment slott for the acctive scanner and tgat puts you at a disadvantage. I personally dont mind everyone ballerinaing every where . If someone has the smarts to scan everywhare then let them .

It's not possible to do a 360 with most scanners (certainly with DS3).
Each scanner has it's own stats for scan duration and it's this plus turn speed that dictates the possible angle.
Only the proximity scanner will allow 360 scans at the cost of distance and results duration.
It's not an unintended consequence it's a feature of scanning.

IMO it's almost certainly an unintended "feature", AKA a bug that made it through QA. I bet they're not even sure quite how to remove/fix it at this point.
And yes, you're thinking of the flux scanner. 30 degree scan area, 150M range.

It's not possible to do a 360 with most scanners (certainly with DS3).
Each scanner has it's own stats for scan duration and it's this plus turn speed that dictates the possible angle.
Only the proximity scanner will allow 360 scans at the cost of distance and results duration.
It's not an unintended consequence it's a feature of scanning.

One of the CCP mentioned that they were displeased with the spinning tactic. My guess is that they went with the easiest implementation and didn't realize the consequences.

IMO, the best possible solution is to tie the range scanned to the duration of scan. For example, if you had a 200m scanner with a 10 second scan, at 5 seconds into the scan you would be revealing enemy locations at the 100m range. This would mean those who spin while using the scanner, their scan would cover a spiral shape, kinda like this. This would also make scan time actually a negative instead of a positive.

The way I see it is you have to give up an equipment slott for the acctive scanner and tgat puts you at a disadvantage. I personally dont mind everyone ballerinaing every where . If someone has the smarts to scan everywhare then let them .

One of the CCP mentioned that they were displeased with the spinning tactic. My guess is that they went with the easiest implementation and didn't realize the consequences.

IMO, the best possible solution is to tie the range scanned to the duration of scan. For example, if you had a 200m scanner with a 10 second scan, at 5 seconds into the scan you would be revealing enemy locations at the 100m range. This would mean those who spin while using the scanner, their scan would cover a spiral shape, kinda like this. This would also make scan time actually a negative instead of a positive.

Yet another topic where CCP and the Community see eye to eye... I like these.

Okey I use al the scanners and there is 1 or 2 that it's hard to do a 360 scann..however I don't c the problem, in my mind there is OTHER things in this game that need attention before into this.

Like the AA, lock 4 tanks/cars/DP, PVE, etc etc I can go on like forever, this matter has at least for me a low priority extremely low be honest.

So what about the scanners with the longer scan duration? They must obviously be made to do swirls with? Why else you they give you a higher amount of scan time to look about?

(I mean the amount of time the scanner is actively scanning, not the red dot duration which I think is bugged anyway)

And by the way, I dislike this thread as I feel its yet another stab at scouts, indirect but that's what it feels like.

So what about the scanners with the longer scan duration? They must obviously be made to do swirls with? Why else you they give you a higher amount of scan time to look about?

(I mean the amount of time the scanner is actively scanning, not the red dot duration which I think is bugged anyway)

And by the way, I dislike this thread as I feel its yet another stab at scouts, indirect but that's what it feels like.