' Wrote:The problem with the idea is that run silent run deep is a submarine tactic. Unforunately for us, we don't have water blocking our radar sweeps, which is where the run silent run deep thing comes from. Underwater, you have to use sonar, and sonar can only detect so deep, and only if the target is making noise. In space, there's nothing from stopping radar sweeps besides other objects.
How are you going to know if a fighter is a fighter and not a small asteroid at those distances if it's not giving off energy? This can still work in space.
' Wrote:What I would love to see happen in game is for planets and other large objects to block radar. Say youre hiding behind a huge asteroid waiting for some poor hapless trader to come along and you essentially ambush him.
That would be awesome.
Another cool thing would be if fighters can hide behind a friendly capship so it looks like they're launching fighters. And to surprise bomber pilots.
For my two cents worth on cloaks as I think it's something that is lacking in such a massive and creatively balanced mod...
It -can- be limited to only specific ships as something that cannot be touched by the ''player'' like un-mounting it and swapping it to another ship it was not intended for. The only ships it should be put to are special Nomad Vessels, -possibly- some Phantom Vessels, and one LF ship capable for all major houses, I.E. Liberty, Bretonia, Rheinland, Kusari, Outcasts, Corsairs.
It can be done, it can be limited, and it can be done in such a way that it can't be abused. You can make it so that the ship in question cannot fire for 5 seconds which is plenty of time to notice ''Hey! That ship came out of nowhere!'' and you can also make it so that those ships can only use class 9 guns so that they won't be doing anything crazy on the server to dramatically create any havok on the server. How threatened do you feel by any current LF anyway? Much less one that can sneak around you and have slightly less armor than the better LFs on the server and not only this don't even have access to the best weapons. It would be nice to have -real- recon ships in the mod. Also, they can be highly priced ships to deter the average spectator so that again it's only for a select few players who can dish out the cash for it. Let's say 50mil for this LF in question?
Anyways, banter amongst yourselves, I think it's really silly we can't have cloaks limited to specific ships. It has been done before on other mods and it does work seamlessly. You would figure the ''biggest'' and ''best'' FL Community/Mod Server would have this especially since even poorly made mods have it.
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The idea here is that it's not a cloak. Your ship would still be visible, just not on sensors. Any ship should be able to do it, it's just powering down all systems so to sensors you would be another lump of metal. Think the Millennium Falcon in the Empire Strikes Back when it hides from the Star Destroyer. Or all those wonderful old WW2 sub movies where the sub hugs the bottom to hide from enemy destroyers.
Oh yes, I understand that. I'm just pulling for cloaks on barely dangerous LF's. I mean.. When is the last time you ran in terror from a scimitar? What if that Scimitar had slightly less armor to accommodate a cloaking device on it?
I like the idea in general that is going on in this thread, I just wanted to throw my two cents in about cloaks.
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