Decloak tech

Mar · Post by **Mar** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:54 pm

I don't really see any use for this tech... It's not very often you get to be #1 exp and in a cloaked ship without fear of an enemy getting above you in exp.
I think only about 10 players currently playing the game has been in that position.

Smor · Post by **Smor** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:57 pm

Mar wrote:I don't really see any use for this tech... It's not very often you get to be #1 exp and in a cloaked ship without fear of an enemy getting above you in exp.
I think only about 10 players currently playing the game has been in that position.

true, and situation that we can do it now is cause those guys hunted top10 traders all the time and made it possible.

Post by **Blade** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:01 pm

A cloaker just makes you hunt harder and have to play a little more tactically, I dont think cloak is a problem, we have a decloaking technology, it's called a mine

Post by **Blade** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:12 pm

No decloaking technology should be good, as it will just make the cloak useless.

Smor · Post by **Smor** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:22 pm

Sterling wrote:And there is the problem...because of speed mines aren't a good decloaking technology..

sterling, u cant be fast enough to stop mines from decloacking u. they work all the time and will decloack, u can count on that for sure.

it is you who need to make time lasting long enough.

instead of having one mine is, have 2 (2 stacks). then if guy is going to go trough sector he will be decloacked long enough and will be is long enough for u to shot.

and of course have someone who will rush cloackers back and drop 2 stacks there too. cloacker is dead then for sure.

but i guess u just cant think about something like that on your own?

ask sufex how he died in nd game... how his cloacker got blasted?

he was fast enough to run from sector where he hitted mines, but not fast enough to get cloacked, cause once u lose cloack u must recloack in order to hide. until that moment cloackers are easy kill. it is your fault that u are not at right place. we were ready for him and had plan where will who run if he gets away from sector where he got decloacked. he choosed sector where sergei was supposed to run. sergie got easy killing shot while sufex was trying to recloack.

there is always way even if u cant think of one.

N.ator · Post by **N.ator** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:20 pm

ok this is out to EVERYONE. if you trade up to 500k wouldnt you like to park anywhere you want being safe!! see the thing is most people cant or dont want to trade up to 500k so they always want to kill the people that do by a cheap hardware. If you are able to trade or kill to 500k there should be no reason why you cant be safe anywhere. and as blade said before, use a mine, use technique, use smartness to kill the 500k guy, instead of just using a little tech. to kill the guy.

DarthNihilus · Post by **DarthNihilus** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:55 pm

Then you aint doing it right. To decloak with mines against some people is a one man job but to take down some of the others it would require the TEAMWORK of more than 1 player (maybe 4 or 5 to take down The Whale.) But no one does anything about it. So what. He is claoked above everyone else. That doesnt mean he can not take a pod ride. Just is no one trys to pod him. Everyone is so scarred of Orca & Co. Why. Does shot pass by them harmlessly. Do drones fail in their presence? Do we not get a examine button on his ship when the cloak is down? Are they impervious to mines and to turn usage? Can they not be stalked and hunted and targeted. Are thier mines of a special unclearable sort? Stop trying to change the game to accomplish something that could be done with a little team work. Make changes that would make this game better for everyone. I saw 2 very sensible suggestions: Giving Fed ships a chance to see thrugh cloaks and making it so the cloak can be activated for a certain amount of time after a move. That could also work to allow other ships a chance to see through a cloak if the ship is in movement. It is moving it should be throwing weird signals allover that something is taking up that space.

DarthNihilus · Post by **DarthNihilus** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:04 pm

Maybe you are just not paying closenough attention to the whats in sector with you. How can you say there would be a problem if the watching is based on your click speed. Some people f5 slower than others. I f5 like crazy some ships i see and some go in and out between f5ing. Maybe the fix shouldnt be in the cloak or movement rate of the ships maybe the fix should be automaticlly refreashing current sector screens. What I mean is if you are watching a CS and see 2 ships and another one enters then maybe the fix should be that the cs automaticlly updates to show the new ships entry. You can not say their is something wrong. Some times I see the ship pass a sector when im watching the other side of a warp sometimes not but my scout allways pings when a ship enters. But Im not seeing it on the detailed scan. Thats not a problem with the game thats a problem with my click control.

Post by **seldum** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:19 pm

like an RSS feed that would be a good deal

JettJackson · Post by **JettJackson** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:13 pm

why should someone who has worked hard all game to spooky still have to worry about being seen, there is a reason spooky level was made, and people spend most of a game trying to get to it, stop trying to make this game something it shouldnt be