Nomad Lore v1.31, page 35 Wrote:Empowered with various advanced artifacts the Advisors [one of the nomad castes, not in a nomad ship form] are capable of rendering themselves invisible to visual detection in a similar way ship forms were able to. They can remain invisible for days if necessary and up to a month in dormant state to preserve energy necessary to maintain cloaking artifacts working, and even more when very near strong energy sources.
Nomad Lore v1.31, page 47 Wrote:Nomad vessels are covered with special skin layer allowing very efficient photosynthesis process to accumulate energy for internal organs including self-propelling systems, weapons and neural system. Beneath it is a special membrane layer that reflects the light that has passed through the skin, this gives the Nomad ships' surfaces a reflective look.
I think the use of fuel for cloaks is a way very typical for humans of supplying their own manufactured devices that are based on nomad technology with energy.
Space-faring nomads however gain their energy from photosynthesis, so I think it would be reasonable to assume they use the same energy for cloaking.
Rather than coming up with some sort of fuel for nomads, I think it would be a better idea to include the cloak commands by default for nomad ships, even without a cloaking device (since those are made by humans) - possibly with a time limit based either on their powercore, or simply a fixed time limit.
if you will remove fuel from nomads(im talking about cardamine,liquid cardamine and alien organisms) - this is will do nomands more independent,but how about OC?
Your words is lost in truth.
Look their worlds,is they shiny and full of sunlight? They living in dark places,where is almost no sunlight. Dark matter,neutron stars,green clouds with alien organisms and there is no sun too.
And about balance.Balance in mind.
Using energy from nothing - this is nonsense.
They must have some engine which will use some type of "fuel" or will have time limit, AND THEN ship must charge again,this is like time compensation,like if they will buy some type of fuel.
For example:
BS have 5 min for cloak,but after using cloak he must stay on place and without any shooting in system with star and charge his cloaking device by HIS "solar module" in 5 minutes. After this procedure he will have full cloak again for 5 min using.
5 min using cloak = 5 min charging cloak without any move in system with star.
All be fair and balanced.
edit:if he will move his ship\cruise\shooting - cloak device will not charge.
' Wrote:hurp
they store energy too
herp
It's basically their food. for energy.
like humans they have to 'eat' too, for energy.
You know it's rather infeasible that even with photosynthesis, they'd be able to gather enough energy at any one time to cloak themselves both optically and render themselves undetectable to sensory mechanisms whilst still being able to perform respiration/transpiration/whateverthehelltheydotoreleasewaste, right?
PS: Even though photosynthesis is a method to gather food, it doesn't inherently make their ships giant solar panels capable of converting said food/minerals directly back to energy that can be USED for that kind of thing.
' Wrote:You know it's rather infeasible that even with photosynthesis, they'd be able to gather enough energy at any one time to cloak themselves both optically and render themselves undetectable to sensory mechanisms whilst still being able to perform respiration/transpiration/whateverthehelltheydotoreleasewaste, right?
you realise that the human cloak is a very inefficient derivative of the nomad one, photosynthesis is used to gather energy, not your weekly groceries, its part of the nomad bodily functions to be able to cloak, they dont need a physical consumed "fuel" to power themselves, because, they are not humans, or mammals or any kind of life form you can possibly compare them to, so how do you know what can and cant be?
' Wrote:PS: Even though photosynthesis is a method to gather food, it doesn't inherently make their ships giant solar panels capable of converting said food/minerals directly back to energy that can be USED for that kind of thing.
no it doesn't, but they are so efficient it doesn't need to be, just because they can cloak naturally doesn't mean they do it all the time, when they need to they can.
balance amigo,balance. THis is doesnt matter who made it...now primary in game -> balance.
Is anybody care that houses was build first BSs and BSs guns,but pirate factions now have similar ships,core,guns,shield...without any technology base.
Nobody care about it.
So we can forget about individuality nomads.How many people saying - this is only game.