Cargo Scanner Confuser

[Mr_Zeno]

The CSC would work to confuse any Cargo Scanner from identifying your cargo. It would fit in an internal compartment.

The grade of the CSC would determine the best chance of successfully fooling a Cargo Scanner.
A 60% / B 50% / C 40% / D 30% / E 20%

The size of the CSC determines the amount of cargo it can hide at the CSCs highest chance to fool a Cargo Scanner
CSC / Cargo Rack
Size 8 =3*1 or 2*2 or 2*3 or 1*4 or 1*5 or 1*6 or 1*7 or 1*8
Size 7 =3*1 or 2*2 or 1*3 or 1*4 or 1*5 or 1*6 or 1*7
Size 6 =2*1 or 2*2 or 1*3 or 1*4 or 1*5 or 1*6
Size 5 =2*1 or 1*2 or 1*3 or 1*4 or 1*5
Size 4 =2*1 or 1*2 or 1*3 or 1*4
Size 3 =1*1 or 1*2 or 1*3
Size 2 =1*1 or 1*2
Size 1 =1*1

You would have to assign which cargo racks are covered by the CSC and Frontier would have to put something into the game to allow you to assign cargo to specific racks. So you could fit a CSC and cover a specific cargo rack that is carrying your most precious goods.

 

[Cmdr Andy B]

nice idea but it would break too many existing game mechanics, piracy would be a pain, smuggling would become laughably easy and the whole risk reward of the game would be thrown out of whack.

 

[ScottGust]

nah, no good...I do however think an option for exploding canisters would be luvly

 

[Honeycone]

Hm.... maybe.... If this were to be implemented, I think you would have to also implement more depth in piracy. Otherwise it may render piracy not worth while or even enjoyable.

 

[Mr_Zeno]

You counter the CSC with the Cargo Scanner, the better rated Cargo Scanner is the lower the chance of the CSC successfully hiding the cargo.
Also I don't think it would make smuggling that much easier, if you look at the Lakon Type-9 the most cargo you could hide with one CSC is 128T, the CSC would have to go into the size 8 compartment to cover a cargo rack in the size 7 compartment.
I think the maximum cargo you could cover is 184T on a Lakon Type-9, compared to the maximum cargo of 532T.

 

[Uueerdo]

You would have to assign which cargo racks are covered by the CSC and Frontier would have to put something into the game to allow you to assign cargo to specific racks. So you could fit a CSC and cover a specific cargo rack that is carrying your most precious goods.

You wouldn't have to go that far. Just have the percentage chance of obfuscation be based on a formula involving "power" of the CSC vs current tonnage of cargo; or alternately, the device could function not by have a % chance of successful hiding, but instead could increase the time a cargo scan takes.

As a sidenote, I believe I have seen a dev comment (somewhere) about being able to intentionally "mislabel" cargo in the future.