CCP Rattati, I think rather that forcing us to either damp or scan by role, you should instead look at tanks.

Since precision enhancers take up high slots, and damps take low slots, in each role some races will be at a clear disadvantage with their choice of tank.
Armor Assaults will be at a disadvantage trying to hide, shield Logis will be at a disadvantage trying to scan, etc'.

But if you look at tanks...
Since you normalized the range of all suits to 15m, that means with scanning V I could get 21m of range without fitting range amps.
That means I have a higher incentive to fit precision enhancers than I did before, creating a use for an otherwise useless module for Gallente Assaults.
You could even move range amps to high slots, but I'm not sure what that would do to scouts and their meta.
If you incentivize it even further by making the EWAR bonuses race specific rather than role specific (Amarr -5 precision, Gallente +5m range, Caldari and Minmatar -5 profile), then that would be even better.


This would mean that Caldari and Minmatar Assaults would often damp, while Gallente and Amarr Assaults would often be scanning, creating a hunter/hunted cycle with EWAR without even having scouts or scanners involved.

But they're not -going- to run fully dampened Scouts. They have no reason to when you apply changes like reduction to scan duration/scan range/etc. Think about it for a second... A Gal Logi with a Focused Scanner is what it takes to force a scout into prof damp mode; but the problem is that he can only do it for 5 seconds (or less, depending on these changes) and then he has to wait 40 seconds for the cool-down. Sure, there's an edge case for overlapping Gal Logi's but what does your data say about the spawn ratio of Duvolle Focused Active Scanners lately? I use them and I find them insanely difficult to deal with because I'm constantly having to flip through them, which means less time with a weapon in my hand to defend myself or my team.

And sure, two damps is a hefty demand but if Assaults suddenly can start beating Prototype Active Scanners on a Gal Logi with just -one- dampener, my prediction is that the Gal Logi is down and out in any competitive play. Assaults don't need lower profile to make them competitive slayers and you're likely not going to encourage people into the Assault-Slayer role by changing that when Scouts are inherently better at it as is.

As far as the Snapshot Scanners, from what I am to understand, it's scanning the enemy and then having their icon stay in place instead of following them like it does now. Which is bad because, as I explained, Passive Scans would -immediately- take priority because they would actively follow the target instead of revealing where he was 5 seconds (or less, based on what happens with thread) ago.

What I meant by that last sentence is that all of these changes (apart from the increased profile on plates/extenders) looks like a suggestion to nerf Active Scanners, which by default means that we have less tools to actively find problem Scouts. A stealth buff, if you will. If we can't change the scan mechanics then someone has to bite the bullet and it looks like it's the Gal Logi... and that expressly disappoints me.

introducing a new bonus to Profile Dampeners: Scanned Down Duration -xx%, [...] It will also allow for profile dampeners to have a use even when their primary function fails, reducing the feeling that the modules are useless as soon as there are high level scanners being used.

Making the Focused scanner better needs to come with squad only. We knew bringing back shared team scans would shake up the meta, and we are trying to react to everyone being permascanned. Please be patient and try to work with us on a better experience. The main point is to reduce the difference between max damp and no damp, and allow players to customize their EWAR capabilities. I would love to run a single damp, and know I am avoiding 50% of lazy scans.

PC is just another story. Everyone is running max specialization and it always becomes binary. 1% advantage means everyone uses it, not just a few. That's just how hardcore competition is, in any game.

What about this, Rattati? Is such a change within the limits of possibility or out of the question?

If we had that we might even not have to reduce visibility duration of active scanners.