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I can only hope this feature was not overdone on purpose to justify it's removal in the future.

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WTF? English is your primary language

But yeah;

I have to agree, I tried to see another side of it in our discussion Sun, but if there really is NO LIMIT to the number of probes a corp can have active, OP is right that its OP.

I really thought there was like a limit of (3) probes per corp though, if not, limiting that would fix the OPness.

to bad they are gonna fix the "own corpmates showing up on ping-radar"

Alright we talked about it some more and agreed that without any limits the system seems indeed overpowered. You may now herp some more asking how this could have happened, the truth is we are not perfect, deal with it

Our solution offer to the problem is to introduce a new CEO extension (around complexity 5-6), which will allow the corporation to control 1 probe per extension level. If this is in place, no other limitations should be needed.

Additionally we will also introduce another CEO extension (complexity 2-3) for the number of assignable users per probe. The base limit of 10 users will remain, and every level will add +3 users.

I recommend you guys go back to the drawing board, decide what you are trying to achieve and what the side effects will be for beta life / PvP

With Zooms suggestion, you could have the pre outpost lockout plated Arkhe dock/undock manuver except with an invisible sensor near their station.

I would recommend not allowing them on alpha, reducing their masking to 170, reducing their price. Make them supplement proper intel, do not replace detector/masker mechanics with them.

Also, masked bots should easily avoid them.

Changes a huge amount. Right now you can set up sensors on every single teleport in addition to covering every island.

With these changes you can only feasibly cover your island and maybe a teleport or two incoming.

Sorry if I wasn't clear, the "CEO extension" does not mean that an online CEO is needed for it to work. It's like the extension for corporation member limit, it only means that the CEO has to install that extension, nothing more.

How much do they cost?

I think a much better solution to limiting probes would be per outpost owned, not per corp. If you own 1 outpost on the island, you can place somewhere between 1 and 5 probes, depending how you want to balance it.

If you limit it per corp, alt corps can be made. A corp is just a list of cooperating agents, it shouldn't physically affect the world in that way. Outposts are concrete and meaningful, you can easily justify it by saying the probes run on power from an outpost, and the outpost can only support a certain number of them. You could also link it to stability or a new upgrade like the current facilities.

They could also be rebalanced in other ways like making signal maskers passively make you immune to probes, or changing it so that instead of seeing people on the radar, you only see your probe turn red if it detects something.

Regardless, they are currently broken and limiting them per corp is only plugging a leak. Please fix the problem.

CEO change mechanic care to elaborate?