Make the port scanner show the target's remaining ammo, power cell, and energy level.

make cargo scanners show the cargo of ships docked in tridents.

make port scanners show the equipment of ships docked in a trident.

make multiple sensors, of the same type, increase range, by volume. so, for example, a single small port radar extender will increase radar range by 1000m, a second small port radar extender an additional 775m, etc, with continued diminishing returns on range increase.

make stacking multiple addon/cargo scanners defeat Scanner Blockers. make stacking multiple scanner blockers defeat multiple addon/cargo scanners.

make Cargo Spoofer MkII defeat two cargo scanners, and MkIII, three. so to defeat a single MkIII Spoofer, you would need 4 cargo scanners stacked to see the cargo.

edit: make scanner blockers detect when being scanned.

#1 +1

#2 -1 Docked ships should be treated no differently whether on a trident or on a station. That said, this is pointless anyway until destroyed tridents either drop the docked ships or the cargo they hold.

#3 -1 Same as #2

#4 +1

#5, 6 & 7 People actually use those?

Nobody bothers with spoofers because hardly anyone uses scanners.

I don't really care about scanning nested ships if we could just get ammo qty from addon scanners it would make them actually worth losing a weapon port for.

No, nobody uses spoofers because it doesn't matter if someone can see your cargo.

+1

Fluffy: It is not pointless, because even if the person scanning the ship cannot make those items drop, the Trident captain still loses the items if he dies. If the person scanning knows that the captain is carrying particularly valuable cargo, then he knows that he can charge the captain a higher price.

I'm sorry, when did pirates start pirating Tridents?

The cargo in the ships in the hanger of a destroyed trident don't drop? ok, that is a way bigger problem than anything I am talking about here. The devs should fix that before anything else.