A cloak idea I want to try out.

Penguenia · Post by **Penguenia** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:04 pm

Screw cloaking, I'm going to make "subspace submarines." Ownzor

Zarahemla · Post by **Zarahemla** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:05 pm

Yeah, and if you're under attack by said plan, you see a bunch of drones pop out of nowhere and start attacking you. Your first reaction is to take them out... depending on how good your weapons systems are, that could take seconds, unless your drones are, you know, good. Well either way, now there is so much debris and confusion in the area, that trying to detect a half meter gap in a cloak field would be kinda hard, even if you were looking for it!

Zarahemla · Post by **Zarahemla** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:07 pm

Penguenia wrote:Screw cloaking, I'm going to make "subspace submarines." Ownzor

Oh I got something like that

Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:21 pm

Zarahemla wrote:Yeah, and if you're under attack by said plan, you see a bunch of drones pop out of nowhere and start attacking you. Your first reaction is to take them out... depending on how good your weapons systems are, that could take seconds, unless your drones are, you know, good. Well either way, now there is so much debris and confusion in the area, that trying to detect a half meter gap in a cloak field would be kinda hard, even if you were looking for it!

Unless the enemy's targeting computers, sensors, and/or weapons are fast enough to track, target, and/or blast your ship.

Post by **Arizona Nova** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:23 pm

I usually reserve cloaking for my sneaky ships, like the Schicksalschiff. For that I went all out and got the phase cloak package, so it could be sneaky and pwnzor planets and stuff.

Zarahemla · Post by **Zarahemla** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:24 pm

Central Facehuggeria wrote:
Zarahemla wrote:Yeah, and if you're under attack by said plan, you see a bunch of drones pop out of nowhere and start attacking you. Your first reaction is to take them out... depending on how good your weapons systems are, that could take seconds, unless your drones are, you know, good. Well either way, now there is so much debris and confusion in the area, that trying to detect a half meter gap in a cloak field would be kinda hard, even if you were looking for it!
Unless your targeting computers, sensors, and weapons are fast enough to track, target, and blast your ship.

Oh come on, first rule of sci fi, you don't have your active scanners on all the time

Zarahemla · Post by **Zarahemla** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:25 pm

Anyway, what is the point of fighting while cloaked? I mean, I only use cloak for spying, except for my one series of stealth corvettes... they're for recon and quick in-and-out strikes. You aren't going to get more than a few seconds out of this at any rate!

Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:27 pm

Zarahemla wrote:Anyway, what is the point of fighting while cloaked? I mean, I only use cloak for spying, except for my one series of stealth corvettes... they're for recon and quick in-and-out strikes. You aren't going to get more than a few seconds out of this at any rate!

That's exactly the point. Against a sufficiently advanced or intelligent enemy, there is no real benefit to fighting while cloaked.

Zarahemla · Post by **Zarahemla** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:31 pm

Fighting while cloaked? Who on earth said anything about fighting while cloaked? If you're exchanging fire, you've failed! The goal is FIRING while cloaked... in other words, Firing, and getting the eff outta there.

The only Cloaked Fighting ship I has only fights with an optical cloak and stealth armor. It makes it harder to track, but the thing needs shields and maneuverability to survive on top of that!

My ships NEVER sit still in combat... that's how you assure your death

Post by **Arizona Nova** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:39 pm

Zarahemla wrote:My ships NEVER sit still in combat... that's how you assure your death

No, I'm quite sure that with a AI or DS on targeting, good weapons, and >C weaponry, I could assure your death with or without movement.