As far as I know, yes that is absolutely correct.

However a prototype scanner on a vehicle is a -very- rare thing. Moreso than double sidearm caldari commando.

They're very hard to fit for dropships without digging deep into the tank. The advanced scanner (36db) is a lot more forgiving to fit.

They do go out for 80meters but they must be used persistently. When the vehicles leaves the area, targets only stay pinged for a few seconds and disappear again, so the vehicle has to stay in the area to constantly re-ping them.

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On second thought, it might be useful on an LAV, epecially the saga-II which comes prefit with that unique 60% hardener. Flip on the hardener while scanning and drive near the ennemy, odds are you will survive long enough to be useful, maybe even get away. New meta incoming?

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My tank has 2 complex scanners on it
No I am not a tanker but I has a tank.

If Haerr is available, I'd highly recommend him. If he isn't, I'd be glad to fact check with you, though I'd prefer to do it here with the guys rather than on Skype. If you're looking for values, the Scan Table on Page 1 is up-to-date. Protofits is also up-to-date and accurate (recently confirmed).

There a few "rules" which aren't readily outlined ...

* Profile and Precision values are rounded to nearest whole number
* Ties go to the scanner
* Passives Scans remain up while incapacitated
* Passive Scans are shared squad-wide

Anything else, guys?

Almost forgot! Denak's experiment. Say your profile is 28 dB and you're pinged by a 28dB active scanner. If you activate cloak while painted, you will remain painted even if your profile dips below 28dB.

Hmmm ... I wouldn't mind "keep what you kill" as "keep what you kill". My GalLogi is killing just fine while keeping up scans, and I imagine AM and CA Logis can do the same. I can definitely see repper Logis being at a disadvantage, but aren't these the ones who are topping the WP leaderboards? They'd gain less salvage, but they'd still be pulling in the biggest EOM paychecks.

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Mybo buff?

How much does 2x deal?

I guess the rings are explained well enough in the scan table.

How about the fact that direction arrows are shown for active scans but not passive?

Targets scanned by a higher margin between profile and precision show up brighter on radar (correct me if I'm wrong here).

Activating a cloak reduces your passive scan range by 85%.

All active scanners share results team wide, except for focused scans which share with squad.

Problem being that even those EOM paychecks are often still leaving dedicated support players "in the red" with regards to ISK earnings. Topping the WP leaderboards is by no means an assurance that you're going to break even on ISK much less have a chance at making any kind of profit.

It has been a long standing truth that most dedicated support players have to run another roll to fund their support play (or run bpos). It is not a universal truth, but it is a common situation. It is also worth noting that I'm citing support play specifically here because someone just being in a logi suit and using 1-2 of their equipment slots can often not be playing dedicated support and really is not applicable in this context.

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Excellent points, Varoth. I'm fairly certain that the struck-through item is incorrect, but I'll keep an eye out just in case. Have you observed this firsthand, and if so, in what setting? If this is happening, it is likely a bug (and I'd like to try to replicate it).

A huge issue that seems to go ignored on all scanning discussion and IMO is kinda a big issue.
The newer introduced suitsGǪ Amarr and Cal Scouts, All non Amarr Heavies (Sent and Commando) show up on Passive Scans as a V that gives a facing for anyone paying attention. This is something that people should be aware of and should be addressed by CCP.

Are you sure this is still happening?

I think people often underestimate vehicle scanners. I more or less have them on all of my fits. Being able to omnidirectionally track tons of infantry within the range of my main turret? Yes please.

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Aha, found him.

See you guys in a month.

o7

A huge issue that seems to go ignored on all scanning discussion and IMO is kinda a big issue.
The newer introduced suitsGǪ Amarr and Cal Scouts, All non Amarr Heavies (Sent and Commando) show up on Passive Scans as a V that gives a facing for anyone paying attention. This is something that people should be aware of and should be addressed by CCP.

Rusearch analysis:

mulling over 20 or 18 db scout, here are the important bits I noticed (old news to most of you, I know):

at 20 db, you can't hide from Medium Frame Inner ring, no precision mods necessary (very common)
at 20 db, you can't hide from a CalScout Middle ring, if he's using all 4 highs for precision
(convinced this is a myth, and there is no such thing as a Cal Scout with 4 precision mods :3)

next stop is 18 db, saving me from the 2 scenarios above, still have to worry about:
at 18 db, you can't hide from ANY scout's inner ring, no precision mods necessary
at 18 db, you can't hide from an Amarr scout's middle ring if he's got both highs used for precision mods (not impossible)
at 18 db, you can't hide from a sentinel's inner ring if they're rocking a single precision mod. (kinda cool, actually)

I'm only posting this in case someone might find it useful. None of this is new, all the data is already available, not making any statements with this. Just putting here in case anyone else who runs min scout might be curious. I, personally, haven't sat down and actually thought about dampening values since fall off, so this was something overdue for me.

As of two days agoGǪ yes
Downed a Calmando because of it.

Imperial Marine Light SKIN has me playing scout more often simply because it's the best Imperial Marine SKIN.

Made a topic in the Features and Ideas section that basically suggests increasing Amarr movement speed and decreasing Minmatar movement speed putting them at roughly +- 0.05 m/s of Cal and Gal. Good responses so far but I suspect no one who has read it yet is a min scout.