Chemist wrote:

Aye Pod wrote:

This.

The key phrase - other games.
For example, you can scan all in Eve. But there u can attack EVERYWHERE.

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Thats the thing about perp, you undock on alpha or jump into alpha from somewhere, there is nothing to do but sit there and get an entire PvP force scanned at no risk, 1 guy, 5 guys, 10 guys, 20, so on, does not matter, a castel with light weight frame, 2 sensor amps, and a chassis scanner and being on alpha is all it takes to get any amount of players fit scanned risk free.

There is a reason why this game has lost fitting diversity, especially for PvP... This being because all you have to do to get scanned with no way to avoid it is set foot on alpha and just like that your enemy will counter-fit and there was nothing you could do to avoid it. and ofc while in recent times its harder to avoid scouting too that is a different topic... Point being, regardless of political BS, Chassis scanner need some kind of penalty whether it is PvP flagging, massive lock time penalty with one equiped, or whatever. It needs some kind of penalty to it, the size of the game makes it unavoidable if people choose to use it, and again that ruins diversity to fitting and what not based on how easy it is to counter-fit nowadays as result.