Yo,
Does anyone know why these, once deployed show up on dscan? Is this an oversight by ccp . surely they should only be detectable with combat probes.
Thanks in advance
Shark Bait
I think the point is that they âshroudâ whatâs in range of them from a dscan. Forces someone to proble whatâs there down and eliminates just pressing dscan to get intel.
Iâve never heard of people using them TBH. I used them back in 2015 when I was ganking in Jita after I would bump a freighter across the grid line.
Itâs intentional.
They arenât meant to completely hide you. Just to make it less obvious whatâs nearby.
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But it makes very obvious there is something wanting to hide. 
I havenât found a good use of this yet⌠and as you have no dscan inside, itâs rather pointless from this end as well.
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I havenât used them extensively, but weâve used them to hide fleet comp/numbers when doing a quick bash or low sec pve.
Again no extensive testing went into this, but we felt people were less likely to form a gang to hunt us if they had to grab a different ship to see what we were.
And this is the issue with these. You put huge sign âHey! Iâm hiding something!â.
First: you cannot really hide something while crying loudly that you doing it.
Second: you cannot use it as trap for others as (again) you are crying loudly that you are doing something shady.
I agree that to be of any use these modules should be not visible on d-scan at all. Better if they allow for using d-scan out: they would be perfect hideout for taking cover or preparing ambush. At the same time being scannable with probes they allow for counterplay.
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Theyâre not supposed to be used to hide. They do exactly what their name says. Inhibit Dscans. If you want to completely hide, there are these things called Cloaking Devices that already do that.
Scan inhibs are supposed to just block your Dscan, not provide a deep safe aoe cloak.
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They donât hide themselves. They hide whatâs within itâs range. Itâs not called âOP Idiot Proof So Nothing Can Ever Find You And Kill You Mobile Scan Inhibitorâ.
If you could hide your cyno field in there, that would at least be SOMETHING.
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My idea was to use them with my widow,
Have a FW fit frigate in the escape bay, using my alt to scout for potential targets in a region.
once target acquired drop covert cyno jump in, deploy inhibitors eject and go hunt
would be a cool content creator
Who asked for that? Iâve been gone for a few years, is militant hyperbole the norm here now?
combat probes would find you.
If they did it would be too easy to hide yourself ratting or mining and youâd still see an incoming bad guy to boot.
How many people randomly probe a system without already knowing something is there to find?
pvpers
Uh huhâŚand which ships do combat probes fit on?
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Is this a trick question?
no restrictions on ship type
Nope.
I see. Show me your combat probes fit thoraxâŚ