Could the response facility's advanced scanners upgrade be reworked to increase status check time instead?

Let me know what you guys think.

Back before the ranger teams were updated to scan all of the animals in a territory, each individual dinosaur had to be scanned which would take some time. This was an upgrade I always go for since it reduces the scan time by 90% and makes the process significantly quicker.

After the update, however, I never find myself using it again, as it never felt as though the scanning time matters anymore if it is 1 second or 0.1 second when scanning an enclosure's population in one go. So what if instead of decreasing the scanning time, this upgrade could increase the duration of the status check time?

Each time a dinosaur gets scanned, the status check time would reset to 10 minutes, which is plenty at first. As I slowly grow the park, it does take more time for the ranger teams to visit each enclosure, and I would eventually have some far-off enclosures that would have dinosaurs not scanned yet since the ranger vehicle is passing by many enclosures on its way. If we were to put on this upgrade, it could extend the duration to 20 minutes instead of 10, making parks with a larger dinosaur population much more manageable. Even 15 minutes should be plenty if 20 minutes seems too generous.
 
I had to put ranger status checks off on my main park because it took too long for them to actually do them. I have 2 ranger stations in that park which imo is plenty as I have 6 Jeeps and 2 Choppers.

This is why I suggested if we could have a mini ranger station so we could add a vehicle parking space to an area that doesn't need another helicopter but would be crucial to need a Jeep to scan/supply/repair. Even if it was just a single car parking garage or something similar to what we had in the RTJP DLC on the first game.
Hell, even a motorcycle ranger station (small but efficient to scan and herd Dinos but with less upgrade slots/task slots) would make a great choice of change and use for the rangers.

And tbh, a lot of the upgrade slots are unnecessary on the game too. For example the storm defence in the desert doesn't actually prevent outages and would be great if we could have a 2nd power outage slot to use instead, so it'd be nice to have the building part of the game get re-balanced.
 
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