What about the difference between passive scans and active scans, a big sci-fi trope? A passive scan might not let the recipient know that they're being scanned and returns a little bit of data, versus an active scan, which returns a lot more data but informs the person that they've been scanned.
Mark AbentLead Gameplay Engineer
Well, that kind of goes with the idea of the transponder that we're toying with, where it provides the information, but if you turn it off, you have to actually scan it to uncover it. And that also goes into the gameplay of if you falsify it, that's how someone could go, oh, he's not UEE, he's a pirate.
Kirk TomeLead Systems Designer
And we can also allow you to mark these items, or the categories of items, as active scannable or passive scannable, and then even allow gameplay in which you can actually change the status of that type on your ship by doing things like getting a better jammer or having a ship that inherently has more stealth capability in that regard.
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