you should have seen the 3D version of it

geoscan accuracy of geoscanners + extensions is well balanced!
full extension + t4 scanner gives you 100% accuracy on any bot.
don't you dare to touch those numbers without considering this:

especially after you have made geoscan results non-persistant, making a geoscanner equipped to a mining bot not have 100% accuracy in any way, would make mining even more anoying then having to bring so many different ammo types to an activity that shouldn't require any ammo at all.

same for artifact scanning - any combat bot should be able to have 100% scan accuracy with maxed extensions and best gear, to do those artifact scans.

also, don't forget, there is that syndicate scanner module - don't balance even more gear into uselessness then it already is, just because you want to give ONE robot a reason to exist.

*edit:*
you could get rid of that negative gameplay element anyway. make geoscans 100% accurate by default , and have the extension reduce the accumulator consumption and the scan radius,
while the geoscanner itself gives you range and cycletime,
the industrial bots reduce accumulator consumption, and the explorer comes with artifact specific "discover range" and "cycletime reduction"

dammit,
for me the artifact range bonus is kinda useless, as the regular extensions already make you reveal more then half of the island in one scan.

already said that about the argano - make that a bonus that increases the range at which you pop up artifacts significantly, and its actually worth something.
aside from that, geoscan-cycletime would also be a worth bonus for my taste of not-so-professional artifacter.

last but not least - i liked it better with the sequer tracks, but i see why you did that.

money doesn't code games on its own.

look at the millions spent on Star citicen - and its still no "game",
or the millions spent on NMS that turned out to be not much game either.

maybe those 5 players necessary to fully saturate the market will come back?

the only thing they DEVs really tried to do to "encourage" group-play, is stuff that actually FORCES you into multiboxing.

starting with the cargo volume necessary to transport anything you gather in 30 minutes on terrain (combat loot, mining/harvesting) and the quantitys required to do anything off terrain (production, getting money)

also the balance regarding beeing able to repair one self when not in certain coockie-cutter builds (medium accu assaults, Seth MK2) and that crap Sensor-Amp mechanic that asks you to fit at least one or get RSA.

and whatever activity ingame you go for in PVE - the most efficient way is to do it ALONE and multiboxing.
rewards are always cut equally by the number of participants, and the maximum efficiency can be reached by a single agent (killspeed).
Usually DEVs (any game) argument that you increase your income in multiplayer because you get rewards faster, and as such counter the fact that you get only a fraction each time. Here in Perp definately NOT!

especially with missions - the workload is multiplied by the number of squadmembers, the overall reward stays the same - IF ALL are participants. and the time stays the same -> at the end each individual gets only a tiny fraction per timeframe compared to doing it alone

aside from ammo production is the best way for AFK EP generation (at least for vets with multiple agents on one account with corp bonuses)

last but not least
if the prometheus' hitpoints got nerfed, because it could kill an unshielded castel....

i cannot wait to see how seth's balance agains grophos will turn out

this is partially a bad interpretation of yours -
i said the dispersion of medium weapons is to small to begin with, to give a small bot - especially the assault one - a notable chance building up its defense on "small hitsize"

your reaction was, reducing the hitsize of the bots even more, instead of increasing the dispersion of medium weapons.
the result is - even small weapons are now hardly able to hit those small bots, and you even suggest to use dual stabilizers together (+1050kg mass! -10% demob resist) with small weapons to counter that, after fixing the mistake of allowing negative hitsizes.

so,
the better reaction would have been the requested dispersion increase,
and eventually a new stat on evasion modules to have missiles miss more often (and suddenly it would make sense to fit one on a heavy mech...)

i get that only if the server is under DDoS, or my own bandwidth clogged up by the 10th 500MB "hotfix" for Fractured Space

there are two modules to counter bots with a small hitsize

1. missile launcher
2. stabilizers
(3. AoE weapons)

though, i don't know how missiles would work against a vektor that has a t4 evasive module and a t2 evasive nexus with the extension at lvl8... the resulting hitsize is 0.01m -> that sounds like a bot that can tank with a small repair module

i wouldn't mind if equipping a stabilizer, would not lower your weapons dispersion, but increasing the targets hitsize for you only.

ah jita
everyone who is full aware of this, can field missiles. if the evasion turns negative, even medium ballistics will one-shot that vektor bot.
you can neut it, you can demob it.

unless you roam with gauss seth's only, you can always field missiles...