As previously stated, maybe there should be some LRS upgrades, such as a ROM that doubles the range, or a cube that extend the forward range to make attacking easier.
Perhaps there could be a couple jamming devices. One could basically give armor stealth, so they can't see you for a while. A device could half the range of any other ships LRS that you encounter. Another possibility is to make homing missiles miss-function.
Another could actually make your ship totally invisible to the other ships in the game. To make it easier to fly you would be able to see a grayed-out image of your ship. And before anyone says that a cloak would be cheap, please play Crysis, or take my word for it. All you have to do is make it use enough power that it has to shut down or overheat, which limits time it can be used. Firing any weapon would disable it immediately, and maybe deplete a lot of reactor fuel as well, or overheat it (since the cloak would spike it's energy.) I don't think overheating should hurt it though, because something that is this advanced would have safety features. Getting hit by an enemy would also cause it to deactivate.
There could be some other consequences for using it, such as causing friendly to freak and maybe even fire at you once before they realize your friendly. It should also take about a second to come fully on, so that when cloaking in front of enemies they have about a second to shoot at you before you totally disappear. It should also work against missiles, such a whatever those Dwarg masters use and disintegrater shells, confusing them mid-flight
I'm not much of a modder myself, so I don't know if this can be done with the functions we have now. But if somebody would be willing to try it, and release the mod, I would test the balance. There could be a couple variations to try, such as with and without a delay between each use. If there is a way to alert the enemy ships to your presence without telling them exactly where you are, then you could show up on LSR, but not be visible, so they would freak out, and start looking for you or firing randomly into space hoping to hit you.
