If you're putting your probe right under tp then me as invader can 1) destroy it and continue moving, 2) destroy it and come back later, 3) and 4) - same but neutralize instead.

It's all tactics and counter, there is nothing to change. If someone want to sneak on enemy island he should take all the risks being hunted down. And me, as an owner, should have the possibility to put alarm right on my house instead of 2 streets away.

probes should have the same limits as all other PVP relevant deployables.

hell, even plant incubators are restriced from beeing placed within 1km of a teleport!!!

IMHO, as reaction to the increased detection on light bots, the probes should have an increased masking.

pre-balance patch, a probe would see a light bot at 450m, and the light bot would see it at 436
post-patch its shifted so even without any equip, the light would see the probe at 509m

the "Stealth" bot, aka a light ewar can see a probe at 250m, but is seen 333m (310m MK2)

IMHO they should rebalance it, so a light ewar can come through a teleport, and has a chance to mask before pinging the probe (aka minimum distance for probe deployment)

also, no bot should be able to see the probe withit pinging it, without the use of either detection or masking modules.

both criteria are easy to achieve, maintaining the usefullness of probes,  while also limiting their powers, asd you would need more probes around teleports to have a sure ping for anything that leaves the dropzone