I was thinking that since the Greyhound got a built in cargo scanner, why shouldn't the Warthog Mineral Extractor get a Mineral scanner? It won't break the ship, and it might justify why its costs are quite a bit higher than the Warthog mkIV.

This is a pretty good idea, actually.

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Thinking into the future a bit, the Warthog Territorial Defender should have a built-in addon scanner too.

What about the Tung mineral marauder?

What about it? The Tunguska mineral marauder doesn't need anything new.

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I agree with the OP. I also agree with tarenty. It seems reasonable that if pirate ships have built in scanners that mining ships would have built in mineral scanners.

I don't have an issue with it so long as an Adv Scanner can be equipped to replace the built-in regular scanner.

Rather than that Meridian, why not a WME MKII with an advanced scanner... same requirements on the ship as the Advanced Mineral Scanner, in addition to a higher level or two.

Yeah, I agree. It should have an scanner similar to the advanced one. Would justify the high cost. Even a normal mineral scanner added to it doesn't explain the expense. But

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Aye, and I like the idea of giving WTDs integrated addon scanners. That's good.

It seems reasonable that if pirate ships have built in scanners that mining ships would have built in mineral scanners.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves here, Ryan. Only one pirate ship -- and a 100,000 credit one at that -- has a cargo scanner. Every fucking mining ship under the sun doesn't need a mineral scanner too, just because of that.

A compelling argument Doc. Though it would still be cool.

*bump* for friday

Humm. Noted. Will consider. This is entirely dependent on how much internal-scanner stuff Ray implemented in the last update we did to the object system, a couple of weeks ago. We shall see.