Scouts can scan an area for moving and stationary fleets.

[EPICISEPIC1234]

Fleets with a scout have a Scan option, will scan region for stationary and moving fleets. This way, you can get intel about fleets BEFORE they hit you. There is a cooldown on this ability. The more scouts you have, the shorter the cooldown is on the scan, maxing out at 60 scouts and 1 minute. With one scout it takes one hour.

[Death Smurf]

Fleets with a scout have a Scan option, will scan region for stationary and moving fleets. This way, you can get intel about fleets BEFORE they hit you. There is a cooldown on this ability. The more scouts you have, the shorter the cooldown is on the scan, maxing out at 60 scouts and 1 minute. With one scout it takes one hour.

No.

I can think of a number of reasons for it, the least of all repetitive clicking to scan a region would probably come up as some sort of script bot to the admins and get your a$$ banned. Then there is more server actions, that's completely unnecessary wastage. In the same token you could have your concept with scouts near your bases, and completely circumvent the need for upgrading after a certain build point.

Oh, and good luck getting Computer tech 60 if you are after doing one scout per region...

Computer
Allows one campaign fleet per level.

30 255,669 30
31 383,503 31
32 575,254 32
33 862,880 33
34 1,294,320 34
35 1,941,480 35
36 2,912,220 36
37 4,368,329 37
38 6,552,494 38
39 9,828,740 39
40 14,743,110 40
41 22,114,665 41
42 33,171,997 42
43 49,757,996 43
44 74,636,994 44
45 111,955,490 45
46 167,933,235 46
47 251,899,852 47
48 377,849,778 48
49 566,774,667 49
50 850,162,001 50
51 1,275,243,001 51
52 1,912,864,501 52
53 2,869,296,751 53
54 4,303,945,127 54
55 6,455,917,690 55
56 9,683,876,535 56
57 14,525,814,802 57
58 21,788,722,203 58
59 32,683,083,304 59
60 49,024,624,956 60
61 73,536,937,434 61

[Wlerin]

I can think of a number of reasons for it, the least of all repetitive clicking to scan a region would probably come up as some sort of script bot to the admins and get your a$$ banned.

Repetitively using a game feature would get you banned? Since when? The entire game is one long series of repetitive clicks.

Players constantly spam F5 or click open entire regions worth of systems in less than a minute and don't get banned, and he's proposing a cooldown of longer than a minute.

Then there is more server actions, that's completely unnecessary wastage.

How is this more server actions than manually checking every system in the region repeatedly for hours?

In the same token you could have your concept with scouts near your bases, and completely circumvent the need for upgrading after a certain build point.

Why would this be available to free players, or at least, with the same cooldown as upgraded players?


Maybe next time instead of making up utterly ridiculous and irrational objections to an idea, just settle for "No."

[PowerVerde]

Isnt that what scanners do if you have an upgrade?

[Wlerin]

Isnt that what scanners do if you have an upgrade?

Not if you don't have a base in the region.

[PowerVerde]

Isnt that what scanners do if you have an upgrade?

Not if you don't have a base in the region.

ah ok, i forgot, haven't been upgraded for a while now