Mothership Cloaking devices?

[*zesh*]

yep thats a cool idea.

it wud make motherships more complicated an interesting, with the whole extra energy generators and clocking

[Eternal Usul]

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A topic has risen in general that sparked my imagination...



In addition to Shields and whatever weapon your race uses...


Why not add Cloaking Devices?


PURPOSE:

In defense it works to hide your mothership from enemy sensors, giving you the element of surprise and increasing your mothership's defensive effectiveness...say by 15%(an arbitrary number up for debate)
(alternately it could affect enemy attack effectiveness)


In offense it will allow you to sneak up, increasing the effectiveness of your attack,(5% is fair I think...as most could detect a hyperspace window opening)

Mechanics of the idea:

Cloaking devices add a percent chance that other motherships won't "see" your mothership.

In order to increase that chance you must purchase more advanced Cloaking Tech...so you can purchase more devices.(start with Zero...no cloak...just like weapons) However there is a limit to how effective it can be(I'd say 50%)

Furthermore, ships with greater weapon capacities are harder to cloak, so every weapon slot you have actually decreases the effectiveness of the cloaking devices...

Therefore you will need more cloaking devices to achieve the same effect as your ms becomes more capable.


This could make it harder to achieve the irritating ms massings that ppl are capable of now...because they will have a much harder time finding your ms...


Please discuss...I know it's not perfect...but honestly...MS Cloaking Devices would be really cool...

[Rukia]

isn't this already done in q?

[Eternal Usul]

dunno...I don't play q...besides, it was a suggestion for main.

[Rukia]

we'll see how it plays out in q first...

[~Coyle~]

A topic has risen in general that sparked my imagination...



In addition to Shields and whatever weapon your race uses...


Why not add Cloaking Devices?


PURPOSE:

In defense it works to hide your mothership from enemy sensors, giving you the element of surprise and increasing your mothership's defensive effectiveness...say by 15%(an arbitrary number up for debate)
(alternately it could affect enemy attack effectiveness)


In offense it will allow you to sneak up, increasing the effectiveness of your attack,(5% is fair I think...as most could detect a hyperspace window opening)

Mechanics of the idea:

Cloaking devices add a percent chance that other motherships won't "see" your mothership.

In order to increase that chance you must purchase more advanced Cloaking Tech...so you can purchase more devices.(start with Zero...no cloak...just like weapons) However there is a limit to how effective it can be(I'd say 50%)

Furthermore, ships with greater weapon capacities are harder to cloak, so every weapon slot you have actually decreases the effectiveness of the cloaking devices...

Therefore you will need more cloaking devices to achieve the same effect as your ms becomes more capable.


This could make it harder to achieve the irritating ms massings that ppl are capable of now...because they will have a much harder time finding your ms...


Please discuss...I know it's not perfect...but honestly...MS Cloaking Devices would be really cool...

i like it alot..and will ppl stop thinking of stupid flaws like..the powerful get more powerful and **Filtered** like that...if ya can afford it,ya can..if not,well tough!
but defo a great idea!

[Einstein]

Looks like a cool ideia

free bump

[An_Hur]

IT's a great idea and I don'T think it would only benefit the more powerfull player since more powerful is you MS more NAq it will cost you to cloak it...

I like the idea...

[~Coyle~]

IT's a great idea and I don'T think it would only benefit the more powerfull player since more powerful is you MS more NAq it will cost you to cloak it...

I like the idea...

thats true..it wud cost them alot more..so please ppl please stop bringing up crap..the powerful get more powerful...blah

[Rukia]

they worked hard so they can gain power...its only fair. but seriously lets see how this works out in q first...

[Eternal Usul]

Shizune...I don't know what you're talking about...I built a mothership in quantum today and I didn't have the option to cloak it...nor could I build cloaking devices...

[TacticalCommander]

The cloak idea is good. Lets keep is simple, its an upgradeable option just like Weps/shields. To counter a cloak, it will be determined by fleets. You know, kind of hard for even a cloaked MS to dodge a good number of fleets.

Example Suggestions
In order for you MS to lock on the enemy MS, its fleets must do enough damage to disable the cloak. Then you MS will decloak and get first shot. In the show, they have enough time to get shields up, but for simplicity and advantage, lets say the ship that loses cloak first only gets say a minimum 75% power to thier shields, but is possible to get a 100%.

To help encourage the use of the cloak, if your MS doesn't have cloak, the enemy MS with cloak can achieve surprise by Strikeing your MS before it even has shields up. The MS wouldn't sustain much damage, it would be knocked out of the fight, and would allow more of the MS strike to be added to the attacking/defending ground force.

[SGC_Sam Fisher]

Shizune...I don't know what you're talking about...I built a mothership in quantum today and I didn't have the option to cloak it...nor could I build cloaking devices...

Go to your technology page.

[Eternal Usul]

Shizune...I don't know what you're talking about...I built a mothership in quantum today and I didn't have the option to cloak it...nor could I build cloaking devices...

Go to your technology page.

Ok...I started a quantum account and checked out what your talking about...

The Cloaking Devices in the technology section aren't for your mothership...


My idea is still valid...

[Neimenljivi]

haven't read all but good ideas boys'n'girls