Scanner vs Masslock

[Paradox]

It just occurred to me. Currently, masslock happens the instant a ship appears on our scanners. We have no real advanced warning, unless we actually see the ship first. But what if there was a buffer zone, where the ship appeared on the scanners, but gave you time to steer around it, before masslock? Just a thought...

[Zireael]

Have you read the proposal for 1.82? There's a heap of ideas thrown around, and some of the more recent ones involve masslock - either decreasing the radius completely, limiting laser range to masslock/scanner range, or having differing masslock radii for different ships.

[Norby]

gave you time to steer around it

Try the masslock borders in Telescope. The Extender can detect all visible ships (2-4x farther than the scanner range depending on size) and show the border ring just in time to avoid the traffic.