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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...
Usul (GOO IS ALMIGHTY!) wrote: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...
An_Hur wrote: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...
Usul (GOO IS ALMIGHTY!) wrote: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...
SGC_Sam Fisher wrote:Usul (GOO IS ALMIGHTY!) wrote: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.
