I'm able to create cloaking devices. So installed some in my own ships and those of my son. But there is a limit to the number ships one can fly and not all faction can reach the place where my factory is. The main problem is that you cannot fly around with it while unmounted, like one can do with for example a piece of armor. The only way to get rid of a cloaking device is to sell it. Sell to a game base and it is gone. But sell it to a POB and somebody else can buy/use it.
Let's say I have the factory in Picardy and want to sell a cloak for a Outcast battleship. No chance that this customer can pick it (*) up w/o breaking some game rules. With my own battleship I could pick it up, bring it Tau-37, sell it to a POB there, and my client could pick it up again in that POB. But that would need a POB friendly and accessible to both parties. I can build one, would need me about 1.5 hours but after the transfer there would be an empty base just floating around, could piss of a game master.
(*) I don't want customers to visit the factory anyway: I'm sure I lost my first base because someone spread the location. That could be solved by a second base somewhere else in the system, right in the middle of the view of everyone, where the actual sell takes place. But that wouldn't solve the problem for this Outcast customer.
One simple solution could be: make a cloak de-mountable like an armor.
Anyway, the reason why I write this: am I overlooking something, did I miss an option? Is there anybody around with another bright idea?
By sheer accident I found out you can unmount them now! (The last time I tried was two years ago) One still needs a POB to mount them but that problem is then for the customer IMHO.
(12-05-2020, 05:40 PM)diamond1 Wrote: You can unmount cloaks like any other piece of equipment and trade it to other players in /conn
That wasn't possible two years ago. Should have thought about trying that first before starting this thread but I was sooooo used not be able to do that, that I completely forgot about even trying it.
Quote:I used to make a few ships to sell cloaks
I only need the right types to buy the various type from the factory. Then, if needed, I can load it into whatever ship of my son to bring it to the nearest game base and then bring it to Connecticut. Wow, things have really been simplified!
(12-05-2020, 05:40 PM)diamond1 Wrote: You can unmount cloaks like any other piece of equipment and trade it to other players in /conn
That wasn't possible two years ago. Should have thought about trying that first before starting this thread but I was sooooo used not be able to do that, that I completely forgot about even trying it.
Quote:I used to make a few ships to sell cloaks
I only need the right types to buy the various type from the factory. Then, if needed, I can load it into whatever ship of my son to bring it to the nearest game base and then bring it to Connecticut. Wow, things have really been simplified!