I would do things a little differently, but thought went into this (which is rare on the forums, I think people are afraid to respond to these kinds of detail) so I will come back with another post and bump with more detail on what I think.

Interesting ideas.

The biggest problem i see in this issue is a slot imbalance. An active scanner takes up a single equipment slot, and gives exact locations of targets it scans. Your proposal takes actual module slots (reducing tank) and more than one was required.

At minimum, you need to buff the module so only one is required.

One question i have thought, how useful is it to find where the person with the scanner is? Usually they are with the rest of the red blob, easy enough to find. Is finding them a big enough tactical advantage to be worth fitting modules to do find them? Im not sure it is.

For the medium frames, they could potentially get an equipment that you can drop like nanohives that creates a dampening bubble which specifically blocks out active scanners. Different variants could be used higher levels of blockage but only for active scanners and another one could be lower levels of blockage but block both active and passive scanning. So essentially you are countering equipment with equipment.

Your suggestions for modules are good and I won't go into them too far except to say that I don't think being able to find the scanner with these modules provides a great enough benefit to warrant replacing armour plates or shield extenders for.
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[1.] So going one step further, we need passive reactive modules that are involved in electronic warfare now to be upgraded, instead of introducing new modules with other functions.
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2. Bring in these bonuses you've mentioned and combine them with current modules.
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Additional ideas: active scanners should not reveal directional readings. We shouldn't know where the enemy is moving, only dots which do not move that reveal enemy positions at the instant of the scan.

Passive scanners shouldn't reveal direction too, however they should scan in pulses, perhaps once every 2 seconds. Therefore the dots on the minimap will shift per pulse to their new position, simulating movement instead of displaying exact movement.

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The biggest problem i see in this issue is a slot imbalance. An active scanner takes up a single equipment slot, and gives exact locations of targets it scans. Your proposal takes actual module slots (reducing tank) and more than one was required.

At minimum, you need to buff the module so only one is required.

One question i have thought, how useful is it to find where the person with the scanner is? Usually they are with the rest of the red blob, easy enough to find. Is finding them a big enough tactical advantage to be worth fitting modules to do find them? Im not sure it is.

The idea seems to make all those other modules useful rather than having eyes like an eagle for using a hand scanner. IMO this would make the constant ping more risky but also more useful at the same time. It provides a reason to be using those other modules and rather than just ping every 10 or 15 seconds or so people may actually consider not using them because they would be less than 100% effective when not using the additional modules and their tank could be compromised. On a side note, I do like to use the passive mods as they help you see scouts where normally you wouldn't and I also believe they have been helping my scan with the hand scanner because I very rarely miss a scout with a scan since the precision enhancer's addition to my fitting.

Azri Sarum is correct about the slot sink into different types of precision mods, the people who whine most about scanners are those who don't even take the time to throw put on 2 complex damps (the cheapest complex mods out there), which would protect you from all scanners except one (which scouts can't really beat), they literally will not cut some ehp for scanner immunity for all but one scanner. 55*.9*.75.75=27.8 means only the expensive prototype focus scanner can catch you, which will be needed once we have cloaks.

So we can safely say that they will not use the precision mods either. Also mods effect suit abilities and passive precision has anything related to these mods then most medium frames wouldn't be good at them anyways.


Scouts, since a high level of precision is usually a waste for a scout because catching the majority who don't signature tank is easy enough without mods anyways. Scouts could be encouraged to go into precision to trace scanners back by the very clever ideas you thought of. But with how the slot layout works for scouts, I'd rather just have these traits already be implemented onto precision enhancers, particularly just the reactive ones to where it shows the angle of the scan that crosses your scanning radius, also have it require that precision has to beat the scanning devices precision to be able to see it.

For the medium frames, they could potentially get an equipment that you can drop like nanohives that creates a dampening bubble which specifically blocks out active scanners. Different variants could be used higher levels of blockage but only for active scanners and another one could be lower levels of blockage but block both active and passive scanning. So essentially you are countering equipment with equipment.

Yeah this would be cool. Grenades that act as 'decoys' would be awesome too. Throw one out and it starts rolling around and if scanned it shows up as a red dot. More variation to the locus spam, please.

Even minimap scramblers. Could be piece of equipment that acts like a scanner, except enemies inside your 'scan' have their minimaps disabled for a short period.

You already can find a person using an active scanner. It is very hard to miss the flashlight shining all the way across the map.

Too tired to add anything to this thread, but I support it and I like all of the suggestions herein. So, without further ado, allow me to supply you with a fresh

BUUUUUMP!