No no no!!!!!!
Level 1 scanners
are useful!!!!! Level 0 scanning doesn't detect anything. If it did, then you'd have to research Level 1 cloaking in every area before you could hide your ship from anyone. I'm saying Level 1
cloaks are useless!!!!! Cloaking should start at level 2; scanners should start at level 1.
Start of game--All ships visible (EM Active scanning 1, all other scanning 0).
Research EM Active cloak 2. Ships invisible because cloak beats scanner. Even though there are no other cloaks, scanner lvl 0
does not detect anything. Proof--Stealth Armor only cloaks EM Active and EM Passive--not any of the other cloak types.
Research EM Active scanner level 2--Ships visible because scanner beats cloak.
-OR-
Research any other scanner level 1--Ships visible because scanning level 1 beats cloak level 0.
Am I being unclear? Level 1 scanners=good idea. Level 1 cloaks=bad idea. Cloaks should skip from level 0 to level 2.