lol , this is so over power it epic !

Player built outposts could obviously also support a certain number of probes.

I'm not saying it's the only solution, just that a limit per corp seems like a quick emergency fix that wasn't given much thought and wouldn't be as balanced as it could be.

No, they are not.  You have to have a client open for each arkhe scout, and actually be paying attention to each one, and then communicate to others on your comms .  With prox probes, 1 person can see everything not only on their island, but every other island that they are listed on the probes for, or 10 ppl can see each if all 10 are listed for all the probes deployed, and see it all on their radar, or the world map.

Not only that, but an arkhe scout has limited visablity range, whereas the probes allow you to track movement across an entire island or group of islands!

This is a HUGE differnece.

For this to work you also have to limit who can place probes as well as allowing the CEO to remotely destroy a probe.

You're also taking them away from freelance and new players but that's a fair. It's about time that corporations had their own extensions and upgrading them was a matter of NIC and resources/tokens/stuff to upgrade them.

If you're going to make CEO specific extensions for future corporation systems make them corporate based so hat changing in structure only effects future progression and does not cause further regression.

My idea:

5-10 proximity probes / corporations

and you can use more when you have a Beta outpost when stability is better you have more.

The number because you can use that for be more safe where you live on Beta.

This needs to be disabled ASAP, and rethought.
WAY over powered.  Even with a limit of just 5, you can know any time when someone enters your island.

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....and that takes accounts to do...a lot more effort.  OH and you can SEE them too...before they see you.

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i thing you got me wrong there - that was no sarcasm.

with the omnipotence those probes got, i would prefer if they did not differ between friend or foe at all.
simply working like space marine motion tracker from "Aliens". Tell you that something has moved there - not less, not more.

if someone complains about the many pings he gets - noone told you to plaster 30+ proximity sensors all around the rather small world. With standard detection range from 1200m (sEWAR) to 2200m (mech, indu, heavy mech)
the 1km placement restriction is a kinda joke...

even the best stealthed bot ingame can be seen from 600m...

Ok.... Everyone raged when 62nd abused the broken mechanic where we would dock/undock a plated arkhe under Danarchov outpost before lockouts.

Now we can put a sensor under every single enemy outpost and watch them with absolutely 0 effort.

People who are saying this isn't completely and utterly broken have absolutely no imagination.

This mechanic is could be good in theory but is a complete and total disaster in this execution.

If you don't go back to the drawing boards on this one Devs, I guarantee you 62nd will exploit these mechanics until the forums are overflowing with rage

This mechanic needs more than a new extension / adjustment... Its needs a complete reworking/reballancing.

I think we're all big boys here. I'd really rather see them have a beta server, but without that, they have to release stuff to us and let us see how it works. If they have to think, rethink, and over think everything before they release it, the game will simply die from lack of particiaption before anything gets done.

Sun: The detectors are hard to find, but not that hard. Putting a detector near an outpost that is used frequently, will just get blown up, and require you to spend another 8M NIC to replace it.... and that cat mouse game actually sounds interesting more than OP.

All these great ideas of how to use detectors, for both offense and defense... but its just like any other thought experiement, they are performed in a vaccum with limited number of variables.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtkK3eijBso

Look fun to you?