Scouting balloons as craft-able/rare loot/etc

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It does however reduce the value of actual exploration and area familiarity in terms of caravan route planning. A blessing for tourists, but a curse for explorers and locals.

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If you are responding to me, please think again. If it shows no players and no caravans, it still shows an outsider who isn't familiar with a node and hasn't spent time exploring or scouting it the ability to bypass all of that effort, and to bypass engaging with a scout who is intimately familiar with the local region when they are trying to decide what route to take their caravan on when it passes through this area.

In this way it reduces player interaction, and eliminates a good half or more of a scout's job.