Physically yes. If because you want to arty scan on a gamma where enemy has a base then no.

Any kind of special charge that costs high nic and can pop but not make collectible artifacts far away?

The 100 charge? Not sure what you asking exactly.

Yes that is what I mean, but it is a technical solution to counteract a downside on how it curretnly works. There is no good connect on how it is supposed to work in the game world. You can scour it empty and sudddenly there are 10 artifacts more? I know that if it would be done how arkelogy really works it would be really playable (first everythign is generated and then the arkelogists slowly consume the heap). But like if you tracked down one particular artifact and decided that even if you know where it is it is not possible/economical to extract it (like with oil fields which are too small to pick up) you would like tune your scanner to look for some other kind of signature, wouldn't you? You could also have like tectonic plates movements or something that rerolls all your artifacts. But again the fit is not super in that because artifacts are private the reroll would be private too which would not really make sense. But I guess it would be an acceptable break from reality

The artifacts could simply reset every few days, so we would avoid both getting stuck with all of them in hostile base and people simply deleting ones they dont care about.

Yes this is why a problem.

I think going on for only artifacts with a certain level/name should be a viable strategy. You can kinda already do this by just not collecting the loot that drops if the drop is bad (saving U and logistic time by not carrying trash around).

The charges could have cool down and could still neeed to be targeted. That is if you can't get close to that one that you want to pop you just have to spend several to hit it by accident (because you know the place only approximately).

back in the early days of artifacting, there was an outcry about how artifact locations didn't survive a server reset.

a very small number of agents voiced their anger about it, because they used the featuer of spawning angry observers ontop of other player. (mostly for griefing)

that was the one, and really the only one valid reason why artifacts should not refresh ever.

now, years later, not even that one bad reason exists anymore.

Yes. More content that was removed from the game for no good reason. A lot of these things that I think the DEVs think are smoothing rough edges are actually removing character (originality and interesting quirks) and therefore content from the game. Griefing or not it gave spice to the game that it still sorely needs.

I found out the hard way after babysitting a friendly Active Hack SAP last week for an hour that it no longer drops loot at the end. *** like that just continues the general trend of *** over solo players and small corps which has been ongoing for half a decade now.

Why even focus on things like that instead of new content like missions on Beta 2? There's this endless cycle of changing mechanics in a so-called "persistent world", much of which is unneeded.

I would love to see the removal of probes (back to the original design), the islands restored to their original layout, and station mechanics back to the old way which dangled a carrot for the enterprising loot scoopers and blood thirsty *** alike (and FFS put *ALL* the intrusions in the log).

Id be happy with trial accts again.