Discussion: Ammo-based Cloaks

[aerelm]

1. What is the intended availability of cloak ammo? (all stations; some stations (Conn transfers?); PoB manufactured; etc)

Available on all bases, similar to any other type of ammo.

2. I expect the ammo to be at least a bit pricey. How can it be justified that a small fighter can burn the same amount of cloak fuel/ammo as a battleship in 1/4th of the time? Isn't it better to have different ammo for each cloak type?

[6/23/2014 9:26:25 PM] aerelm: the ammo cannot be linked to the cloak, so it wont be highlighted in the dealer screen even if you have a cloak mounted. you'll be able to buy it regardless, but to make it appear as first item on the list (to make sure people wont have trouble finding it) it has to be defined as a CD ammo and cost less than 50sc.

3. Is it possible to have non-integer fuel consumption rate? For example 1 per 5 seconds (0,2/sec).

Unfortunately, the game engine does not recognize "half a commodity", so this won't be possible. Of course, there's the option of adjusting the cloak fuel consumption intervals to something like x per every 10 seconds, rather than the current x per 1 sec, but since that can overcomplicate things, we won't be using that unless it proves necessary.

4. Is the Light Cloak intended to be used only for running?

It's intended to allow for short range ambushes as well, but with a bit of effort, coordination and precise timing rather than "cloak in and go looking for stuff".