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Make Scanners, Spoofers, and Blockers multiport items

Dec 09, 2018 SkinWalker link
This would increase the use of these items I think. There are many times I think capship owners would like to run a blocker or spoofer on their dents or golis.

So, essentially, a scanner would work on either port. Or create large port variants like the Storm Radars have.
Dec 09, 2018 We all float link
Probably the easiest way to implement this would be with large port variants. I do think that a large port blocker/spoofer would be great. Then aggressors would need to guess if it worth their time to attack larger ships (like capital ships)

+1
Dec 09, 2018 Heini link
I don't think we should give cap ships these addons because it would be unbalanced and most would use this addon because the large port isn't very effective anyways. You can kill a moth with a blocker/spoofer but a cap ship would be really hard. I think having such a big and slow ship with this much cargo space should come with disadvantages like not being able to use scanners and blockers.

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Dec 09, 2018 SkinWalker link
I think the use on a cap ship would be varied. It would be a pain for people to give up their TUs on caps. But I'm one that believes the scanners should already be built in to a capship.
Dec 09, 2018 IronLord link
Heini uh what? How would a scanner make it any harder to kill? Most of the cargo in capships is inside ships anyways. Won't make a difference
Dec 09, 2018 Heini link
I never said it gets harder to kill. I meant that you can easily kill a moth and see what cargo it had but you can't just casually pop a dent and see if it had any cargo.