[Mzyxptlk]

Ohh, look here. It's disting. My pet peeve!

Problems with disting:
1) Unit scans show your fleet (dist whoring as Xan is not viable) and are unblockable.
2) Landing scans show whether you have defense and are unblockable.
3) Dedicated high-amp scanners do not care about their value and are fed by the alliance fund. Dist whores do, and are not.
4) The only way to boost your income as a dist whore is by capping a lot of roids, which increases your attractiveness as a target. You can't build FCs or refs, and have no time for core mining research.
5) With dists, your research is disproportionally allocated to infrastructure (to support your dists) and HCT (to support the roids you need to compete with value whores). This leaves little opportunity to invest in travel time, making it hard to defend your alliance, reducing the likelihood you'll get defense in return.

Possible solutions:
1) Some scans could be harder to block than others, but unblockable scans should not exist. Landing and planet scans could be harder to block (say, 100 dists block 50 amps) while jumpgate probes and advanced unit scans could be easier to block (say, 50 dists block 100 amps).
2) High-amp scanners often don't really have to play. They can sit on 200 roids and idle out the round. Significantly increase the cost of amps (+50-100%) to encourages high-amp scanners to build up their roid count, bringing them back into the game. Added bonus: alliance strategy! Roiding high amp scanners (even without SKs) could be a viable way to reduce the ability of your enemies to scan you.
3) Distwhores need to allocate a disproportionate part of their income to building dists (and defending them against cov ops). Make dists significantly cheaper (-30-50%), or chance the order of growth of dist costs from linear to logarithmic.

Non-solutions:
1) Make amp/dist ratios determine the chance a scan gets through. A chance, taken enough times, is a certainty. This is functionally equivalent to making all scans unblockable.
2) Make guards cheaper. Helps everyone equally.
3) Make guards more expensive. Hurts everyone equally, except scanners, who won't give a shit, defeating the point.