Stacking Sensors

[odd girder]

Hello! I think it would be great if we could benefit from more than 1 sensor at a time.

Sensors are a good QoL career feature for most ships, a great QoL feature for miners, and a sniping enabler for railgun/missile ships. All of which are cool, but I feel as if they could be leveraged to do more.

Possible effects for equipping multiple sensors:

• allows us to see inside enemy ships
• increased range, though perhaps with diminishing returns
• gives player builds really cool station/outpost/support aesthetics
• jump point after a certain amount of tonnage + sensor count(?)

[bitter prawn]

I witsh we sould have smaller sensor rooms aswell

[drowsy heron]

Stacking 500 sensors to see everything, assuming each adds an extra 400 meters of viability

[vapid raft]

probably would have diminishing returns

[civic finch]

It could still have a cap, or increase nonlinearly. (i.e. each extra sensor adds less to the range until they add effectively zero.)

[odd girder]

yeah, i would like that

perhaps having 4+ sensors and a certain level of tonnage (to avoid abusing the mechanic) will allow your ship to be treated as a jump point?

would be good for folks that like to build stations

[vapid raft]

maybe with large ships you could place them in different places (like hyperdrives) to get the most sensor range

[civic finch]

I think it would probably be better to have a dedicated "warp anchor"-style block for that to make stations so that you don't just get to make a moving jump point for no downside. Then the mostly immobile base-game warp points would seem out of place.

[odd girder]

that's fine