Random idea that probably won't work

[Drake]

I had a thought.

Would it be possible to make a piece of mountable equipment, or perhaps a specific ship, which would make the ship completely undetectable on sensors... But only when completely unmoving, or moving at a slow speed (like, 80, a normal ship not thrusting or cruising)? Ideally it would take up a couple hundred units of cargo room, like a capship armour upgrade, to make it so every ship out there wouldn't have one. It would be a large, expensive piece of technology which would only be worthwhile to certain people (recon freighters or gunboats, smugglers, etc.)

As I said, probably not even possible.

[Jimothy]

I believe some other mods have cloaks that did similar things to this, so it may be possible.
A cloak that only works when going slow... nice

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I was formerly know as Spiritar.

It's been a while.

[elgeeko]

ECM more or less. I know nothing about item coding however...
Perhaps another version that works at any speed but only on LF class ships?

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[Drake]

Not exactly a cloak... A sensor mask. The ships would still be completely visible to the naked eye (and large ships are very visible to the naked eye). If someone clicked on the ship, they'd show up and be scannable.

[reavengitair]

So, whats bad about a standard cloak for ships? If we had just a standard cloak... To avoid some things...

1. Only impulse speed.
2. No firing or talking in system chat
3. Visible using a very expensive scanner (10-20m? finally have a use for these things)?

I'd just prefer a standard one to these cloaking ideas.

[darthbeck]

i think you can do this with FLhook, but im not entirely sure.

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<span style="font-family:Century Gothic">Violence is Golden</span>

[reavengitair]

Its possible, there was a video for it.

It can't be hard to change it so that it only works when you are flying slowly.

[Elsdragon]

No CLOAK!

NEVER!


Well, Maybe, would need testing, you know?

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No longer a slave to the man!

[jenya]

There were cloaking ships in Singleplayer, why not use the code from that?
There is cloaking in other mods, but the main issue here is lolships.

[Drake]

It's not a cloak! Pay attention!

Igiss has said no cloaks, ever.

This is NOT a cloak, it's a sensor mask, and it'd be limited by cargo requirements and would only work when under a certain speed.

And the 'cloaking' ships in SP just didn't exist before they dropped their cloaks. It wasn't any invisibility coded into the game.

Not a cloak.

No cloak.