My battle tab now only shows players basically 40% below my level, and none above. Others in my legion are experiencing the same thing. Is this going to be fixed, or is anyone else experiencing this?

maybe its just the level you are. im getting very few people above my level, but thats because i have very little scan. if you want harder people, then put more scanners on your ship because more than likely theyre cloaked to the point you cant find them.

This. Decent scanners are deck-hogs and I only have mission/NPC drop scanners installed except when doing a planet blitz and most of my tab is lower than me too. Those that are higher than me are usually firewalled (0 cloak) so I can see them easily then.

If that is a bug it has been so for me forever. I run decent scan all the time and my BT has always been mainly 40% lower than me for a long long time. I don't like to target lower but if I don't I got nobody to hit unless we are at war. Funny... today.. after the badge system start I found a ship 50 ranks above me.... I was shocked.

I don't think so, I'm a level 84 and run ~350 scan and almost 400 cloak, not super stats, but definitely better than most around my level. And up until the update I had level 100-115 ships showing up on my battle tab. Not any more, the highest I've seen is 1 rank 89.

At 89, a scan of 350 is pretty good. Not so impressive on a rank 220 ship...

Yeah, it must ne a bug in the formula for the tab introduced during the update.

It depends on your scan vs their cloak. If they are running high cloak then you will not see them. Ships that are 40% bigger than you are probably more equipped and therefor you do not see them. If they remove their cloak mods they will show up.

listen he's right guys a month ago I was loaded with scanners and was pulling ranks 150 in my tab , (me being a 78) and now I got more decks and scanners and can't find a player higher than a rank 77 ....somethings wrong.

Are you sure that it is a bug?

If players want to get the most out of the badge system they will have to go for weaker players. And since the update that is exactly what we are getting.

Nonsense. The badges are great, don't get me wrong (except for the fact that now everyone and their mother are loaded up with traps to high heaven), I want RP first and foremost. The only thing the badges would do is help me get those faster/more at a time. There's no way that overnight every single player over my level loaded up with scanners all at the same time. I want to be hacking level 115-120 players right now, not level 60-70.

obviously changes have been made.

after this update came out:
I increased my scanners and cloaks to avoid being seen. I haven't been disabled yet.

What I did notice was that afterwards I started seeing those ranked just above me and up to about 40% below me on my battle tab.

I have yet to see anyone ranked far above me even with my significant scanners at over 3000!

Definitely changes have been made.

What I would like is badges in tenths.

ie: if your rank 100 and you disable a person above rank 140 you get 1.5 badges, 140-60 1 badges, below 60 0.5 badges.

well it seems the 40% is falling into eg; your a rank 100 and your tab turns up ranks 60 to 100 , but is should turn up ranks 80 to 120 ...... i dont think the tenths system would work I wouldnt want to waste the energy for .5 badges

True, but for people that don't specialize in hacking: if they haven't invested as much into cloaking as someone who is dedicated to it, they shouldn't reap the same rewards. If you hack someone much higher in level than you, the reward should be greater than picking on someone 40 levels below you. I actually think the tenths idea is a good one. Plus, it allows those people who don't really want to invest in cloak to still get some benefits from hacking people.