if you make a thread captioned "what faction can justify a cloaking device" - you ll have ALL the active factions pop in with an explanation why they can have one.
when you make a thread asking "what ship can have one" - it ll range from light fighter up to battleship"
- liberty navy: they build the osiris - they know cloaking
- lsf: they are the secret service / CIA - they get the high end gear that the navy has
- ageira: their entire trade empire is based on alien tech and they are one of the core cooperations
- BAF: they have a nomad city in newcastle along with research facilities
- rheinland: history speaks for itself
- kusari: same as rheinland
- order: well, they do now own the osiris and are meant to be smart enough to comprehend it
- bhg: their sole purpose is to get nomad tech
- zoners: expert shipbuilders and close allies to the order - also the faction that RPed nomad reserachers the most ( due to not much else to do sometimes )
- hackers: RPed as hacking through the most rediculous stuff - also stole a lib warship...
- gallia: well, they got what sirius has - only better.....
- nomads: they got it from their creators
- wild: they get it from the nomads
- outcasts: what you cannot build, you steal
- corsairs: see outcasts
- hessians: the wild are close neighbours - and RPing capture and research won t take much RP efford
- phantoms: vince already said
- any custom faction: like phantoms, when you write your history yourself, you can write it the way you like so it fits.
etc. etc.
all in all - one can make up reasons to have a cloak - and the only thing that prevents one from doing so is player inactivity.
when its about shiptypes:
- the most powerful fighter with the highest possible stats is a light fighter
- the most successful pvp battleship by statistics is the osiris light battleship ( but can also be because it is one of the most popular )
right now - the only more or less balanced way ( so its NOT used in pvp but only in RP ) is:
- require a full energy core ( so you cannot do it when you just cruised or fired a weapon )
- REPLACE armour upgrade ( so you choose, stealth or hitpoints | you suffer less in a fighter and much more in a battleship from that choice )
- apply cruise powerdrain characteristics ( meaning a fighter cloaks fast, a battleship cloaks slower )
if ppl say "but thats useless" they want to use it for pvp instead of RP too much. ( which btw. isn t a bad opinion - it just states an intent )
things would be good if players actually thought ( and acted ) "oh my gosh... what is that pink glow?!"
sadly players will think "oh, not again an overpowered nomad decloaking to unleash its overpowered weapons on me"
if you fight a voidrunner - do you marvel at its speed and its superweapons? - or do you think "great - a ship that can unleash hell on me and i cannot hit it - now isn t that fair"
after all - no matter what you marvel at - you end up 4 hours locked out.
add:
- 30 seconds charging on a drain of 200e/s, to start
- 10% energy remains
- Shields will go down when you start to charge.
- Cruise engine won't work.
- When you de-cloak all systems power up one by one, first the power core, then the shield, then the cruise engine becomes availble again.
add the things above and people will be less 'ohnoez a OP nomad'
add them if it's even possible to give those drawbacks on it.
Nomads deserver to be a bit special, to be afraid of by the civilians of Sirius, right?
Hey guys, well where to start, i have a cloaking ship hehe ... but not in the Disco Universe, i own it on the Hamburg Server and it works like this :
- it only works on the 'old' ships like the Valkyrie, compared to Disco it would be a Light Fighter
- first you must type into the console /cloaking on
- after like 10 seconds your ship is now invisible
- the invisible status is for only 100 seconds (/cloaking on in the console and it starts again)
- you can only fly with normal speed (80)
- you can not cruise invisible, if you hit cruise speed you are visible
- same thing for the trade line if you enter it you will be visible
- you can not shoot in cloaking mode first you got to thrust to stop the mode
so this how it works, a nice gadget but it is rarely used on the Hamburg Server because said Server is for PVP and not RP, the ship does not have good odds in Fights like to an Eagle. My point is if it works on that Server it could be easily implemented to Disco and if it is not used for PVP it could promote RP.