Now, everyone seems to not like the limited 3km radar range. So, instead of upping the radar range for the ships, why not make a support ship, like the useless easy to kill observers the hive bots have? These could relay their scanning info to friendly ships within their scanning range and also give them more info such as when targeting and getting character info showing stats on the ship, like mass, armor, and what weapons it has. All depending on how advanced the friendly observer ship is.
The observer ship could move faster than others, be limited to 1s weapon, or 2 small weapons, depending on variant, and 5-10 cargo units. IT would of course wouldn't have much armor being that it is a support ship and should keep a fair distance away from the battle.

Or what about being able to equip a gadget in an s-port that ups your radar range to 5k?

repair gun in one large slot, a group radar booster in another large slot, id be willing to sacrifice that in a rag

Or a hog could be a dedicated support ship.

well IMO u should not need to unequip a WEAPON for a "tool" like that.
what we need is a DEVICE slot (at least one) and so we could put in "devices" like that improved scanning range tool or that new "repair tool" with which u can repair other players (but not urself :/ ).

i like the idea of a device slot but only the bigger ships should have one because the big ships really need to be given a useful role in the game......give the hornet a device slot, and the heavier ships