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Originally Posted by mathematician
as for counter measures, i haven't thought out this yet. the planet may have a % chance each tick to detect a probe and send it back to its origin.
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well this percentage should work with the dists/amps of the planet who is probed/probing
to have a "reason" for that:
for a dist heavy planet the probe has to increase it's signal strength to send data to the homeworld
if the homeworld don't have many amps the probe has to increase it's signal strength to send data or else the data won't be received
and strong signals are easier to dedect
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if you create a support account for scanning, or a support account for probing, both is the same in terms of cheating.
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Well there is a slight difference
A scanner can feed from the ally fund for scans, build ships and send them to attack/defense for his/her ally.
A "prober" can build ships and....
well that's it as the fleetslots are used a prober can't realy do anything else so it's not efficient to have a prober in the ally if the ally size is limited.
The temptation for out of ally support planets is bigger than it is for scanners.
Even if a "prober" uses only 1 of his fleetslot for probing, then there are only 2 slots left, instead of those 3 a scanner can use
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it is intended for solo players who do not rely on external sources like alliance scanners or transcendancy.
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ppl who don't want to be in an ally and don't even bother to go to #transcendany and ask for a scan are usually those half active players. Due to that they are usually small so the usually attack other small half active players. If they can't scan one, they take the next one. This players don't fight alliance wars, they don't pick their target due to fact that the target is ranked 1 or 2 places above them. They just attack "good" targets.
The only real use i can see for such a probe would be on this nasty dist whore who is in the "wrong" ally or has the "wrong" rank. So it will be used by those big alliances who have reached the member limit. Here comes the temptaion for support planets again.