Well, I was watching footage of the F-117 Nighthawk and it reminded me of the Raven's Claw...
It went on that the Nighthawk was invisible to radar and what not...
That got me thinking of NPC Cloaking - Regular NPC's have a Cloaking Hardpoint put into their ships, when they reach a certain range they disappear from your radar - But if you go back they will still be there...
Would it be theoretically possible to hardpoint a NPC-Like Cloaking Hardpoint onto a Ship, with a set range of some 3-6K or so for appearing?
It would allow Stealthy Operations by The Order, LSF and their house counterparts and the like.
I brought up an idea awhile back that is similar as logical alternative to cloaks. Same basic idea. But instead this was a Armor upgrade that gave NO extra protection such as x2.5. Clickable but invisible to radar until 5k away.
It was impossible to do (Said by a Discovery Dev).
But it might work. IF NPCs actually have that hardpoint you talk about and its possible to put it and use it on other player ships.
What they were talking about was just a cloak from radar whilst still being able to visually identify the vessel and select it. Not eliminating both the visual and radar identifiers at the same time...
Much like a base in a low radar-range cloud. When it suddenly pops up on your scanners at 3k, but you can see its silhouette when lighting illuminates the clouds.
Only reasonable way to implement it is by making it admin-given, like some of the id's, maybe give some to the armory of every faction that might have tech to cloak (order, nomads) and rp-based for the indies.