[Droplede]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
I like my old idea of limited range scanners and sensors that can only see a sector around the ship on level one and 5 sectors by level 5.

Planets sensors arrays and or scanners would have a greater range of 5 to start out to 10.

This way a ship passing through a system may or may not see all the ships or planets in that system. They would have to EXPLORE the system.

I'm OK with this idea for sensing ships, but hiding planets is a bit too much. I think it's a good abstraction to be able to see all planets in a system once it's entered. I mean, on Earth, with today's technology, we can see system after system after system across the galaxy and determine if there are planets there or not. I'd buy having planet population size hidden until you're close, but ....

For me, greater fog o' war is good for spaceships, bad for systems. And even then, half the joy is reading the funny (and most often grossly misleading) ship names my buddies come up with. Nothing says fun like finding out the hard way that his scan-blocked "Flower Trader" class transport ship has a star destroyer on board.