Sig auto scanner idea

[Jin_Shugo]

I have lived in every area of space in Eve. The one thing I would like to see in Eve is a sig auto scanner. Stay with me… This is not for combat. What I am talking about is a deployable device, or even a high slot device, that auto scans all the sig in a system but… it takes like 5-10 mins. Just enough time to go afk and make a sandwich and grab a beer. Combat scanning and all that would not be affected. This is just a nice tool for explorers and jspace residents to use instead of having to scan every sig they find in every new hole. I mean we have star gates but the tech for scanning sigs is like 1970s submarine level tech. It does not fit the theme of the game at all. Cheers.

[Jah_bastah_II]

If this could even be a thing, it should:

• Involve risk
• Be much slower than the lowest skill/item/ship scanning to keep incentives for active scanning.
• Be expensive in fuel consumption. You trade time for ISK.

If this were at all worth implementing, I would suggest a mechanic like this:

• A module like the Entosis Link, requiring fuel, having a long cycle time and having the exact same restrictions. Instead of using normal fuel, it uses any type of core probes as fuel.
• A deployable structure (with a hauler/transport cargo size volume) scans the system while also fueled with any product of null/wormhole ice/gas product and targeted by the module mentioned above (ship within say 5000m range).
• Only certain shiptypes can target the structure with the module. I imagine allowing CovOps, T3C and Combat recon ships (to give them an additional purpose, like the Force recons).
• The structure has a lifetime of 1 days if not fueled and has a fuel bay for 1 week. Anchoring takes 20 minutes. It cannot be within some thousands of KM of any other player or NPC structure.
• Scanning happens after a spoolup time of 20 minutes and only scans signatures that are scannable with the sensor strength of the probes in player’s module. It can’t auto-repeat.
• I estimate the fuel cost of the structure should be close to 250million per week (slightly over half the fuel cost of a large control tower), making this something that is used and shared by corporations or otherwise very active players.
• The structure would have permissions too.