It is pretty ridiculous that scanning other people doesn't flag you on Beta/Gamma - it's an overtly hostile act there.

Stop basing out of XYZ

Detectors make you easier to see when you use them and don't actively target anyone only passively scan if they can see you based on the formula. Maskers don't target someone else at all.

By your logic any mod should flag someone.

However scanning someone's chassis lets you dock and re-fit to counter exactly that build and it's the only reason to do it on Beta/Gamma and is therefore overtly hostile (as you actively target and fire the chassis scanner at them).

Actually I've seen it far more often on Beta as of late, but you're right, it's prevalent on Alpha as well, I just don't think you can justify the flagging there because while it could be aggression it could be a curious newbie or a mission runner or something too and that should be a benefit of Beta/Gamma ownership albeit a minor one; the ability to develop and test fits in relative secrecy.

However on Beta/Gamma there is no reason to chassis scan someone unless you're trying to counter fit. That's clearly a PvP aggression and should be treated as such. Most often the scanner can't "die" because they scan around a station they can immediately enter so you can't kill them fast enough. If they're flagged they pay a price for their intel - a trade, it should also save the scans like geoscanners do they can be shared in game instead of everyone using external image hosting sites as it is currently.

no one must know my fit. this is my last word on the subject.

In a way its stupidly weak as it takes a whole slot and in a way its stupidly powerful as suicide scanning can't really be avoided.

Its also not a good tool to estimate wheter you dare to fight as it requires for you to be in lock range to be used ie already in battle - too late to back out now.

Make a flag. Logically, it should be. This battle zone. I scan. I learned individual information. It must be a risk.

That other game people do it on undock all day with out problems. Hell that other game links fits to killmails.

wtf Zoom? why enemy can know my tacktic? its fun?

if scanner chassis, not will removed (or flagged who use it) in 7 day, i leave game

I agree, make scanning a bot a hostile act and flag the player. As for the other game, there are many more modules, fits and ships. Plus and this is important - it has MANY more players and space to live.

It would not be possible for a scanner to scan 50 man fleet in Perp and islands have choke tp points now (stupid idea). Less a problem with a pop of 1000, but we don't have a 1000 players.

This is critical in PvP. Important is how to fit the robot - 90%. The remaining 10% - a weapon. Knowing fit, I can make a counter-fit: use LR or SR weapons. Neutralization or DPS. Use EWAR or use DPS. Does it make sense to use tacklers. How HP has the enemy. What is its speed. And so on and so forth... Knowing fit - a 50% success rate.