Defensive detection potential does not diminish as much, but offensive detecting potential factors in both travel time and detection strength. Travel time is directly correlated to the amount of weight you add on to your bot.

Zoom, here is a scenario of why even defensive detection with guns equipped is bad.

M2S and friends came to Nova, it was my job to get eyes on their main fleet. I was all the way north and got eyes on them in the northeast most teleport.

They must have seen me too, because MoBIoS in a Troiar Mk2 and a castel Mk2 detector were dispatched to tackle and kill me. Had I been fit with guns, I surely would have died. But luckily I was not and I was able to outrun them. They gave up and I continued to apply my detector to their group.

I really have to disagree with your statement that fitting guns does not affect their detection potential. While this is true on paper only looking at your signal strength, in practice this falls flat on its face. I would know, I have a dedicated detector account with over 500K EP spent on being the ultimate scout bot.

Speed is critical for scouts.  Almost in every single situation, it is not worth adding anything other than a lightweight frame and speed nexus (for Mk2) to a light detector.  In fact for pvp a T4 or at least T3 detector is a must.  However, I think its a problem with the way that detector modules function rather than with light bots themselves.

It is in theory possible for someone to be playing with a single account and running a detector bot but in practice it makes much more sense for someone to use a detector alt since that way they can still participate in the fight using their main account.

It seems that light bots lack the head slots to be of much use in a fight.  Light-ewar out runs them and assaults out tank and out damage them.

Either way there isn't really enough pvp going on to see if there is a combat role which could be filled by lights.

I concur.

A T4 speed nexus on the enemies bots is fundamental for lulz on the CIR TS.

Ville did you train this monkey yourself?  It's pretty impressive!
It knows words like "concur", "fundamental" and even "lulz". Give it a couple of years and it may even be able to string a coherent sentence together

+1 and when English is your 4th language, I tend to look past things.  Unless it is Hunter in which he just amuses me endlessly with his proverbs.

We're discussing how could we make light bots more interesting, you'll know when we got something

Give them +1 headslot. Problem solved, next.

Really.

How does it scale atm considering S.Amp is MANDATORY in all fits that don't include an expensive followbot with Remote Sensor Amps?

Lights - 1 headslot <----- ALERT ALERT HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM
Light EWAR - 3-4 headslots
Assaults - 4 headslots
Mechs - 3-4 headslots
Heavy - 4-5 headslots

Lights having 2 headslot means players can fit S.Amp + Demob, which immediately gives you a ridiculously cheap throwaway PVP bot nobody cares about losing, but just might pull off the HERO RIFTER moment and tackle a titan.

Next step: Remove approach command from the game. Immediately solves all pay-to-win problems where someone with 1 account can never beat someone with 2+ or 3+ accounts.

Naturally we could always let the hungry hungarians knee-jerk, overbuff the light bot again so its pointless to use anything else. God knows they got a track record for such sensible informed decisions.