Invisible devicE

[Datal]

What about some special devise which can make your ship INVISIBLE instant. (Invi Engine)
When you use it your ship has disappear,( but for enemy not for you )
I suppose it's new idea. Try to imagine that, you (ekhh...we...) will suprise enemy and destroy they easier. (but no too easier)
Sorry if some kind of this device is allready exists, but I haven't so wide vision with those mods !

And classical : waiting for brainstorm.

[Ttech]

You have have stealth amour that would allow your ship to show no sign until you are near or on top of an enemy.

[Datal]

I know that, but I seen that armor only once time in my life, it's too rare
The Invisible device should be available more often. And it can be disabled with
one click, and armor NO !

[Arisaya]

I don't think that is possible with the way stealth abilities work in the game so far.

[Datal]

Maybe, but you must admit that the same idea is good

[Amilir]

No, I don't really think we do. Ideas are great things, please don't get discouraged, but this particular idea isn't good as is. Transcendence goes through huge changes of balance and power. Because this scales with level, if you can use this device at some point before the end at a reasonable cost, it will be too powerful later on. Stealth armor replaces what would probably be stronger defense. Another balancing act could be to make it start failing against enemies of a certain level, but that makes it start to feel like a gimmick. Basically, the bottom line is that you shouldn't be able to keep the same device through a large part of the game. Cargo holds are something of an exception, because your ship will start to move like a drunk sloth if you pack too much in. A 5000 ton hold wouldn't be too helpful for vanilla ships.

Mind you, this is completely ignoring whatever you'd have to do to the AI to get it to work if it acts any differently than stealth armor, and any abuse that could come out of such behavior.

Now, ships actually cloaking and such to surprise you and their enemies does sound quite fun, but getting this to work decently would be a royal pain.

[sdw195]

there is a cloaking device mod out there (i think bobby made it)

[Arisaya]

how did he get that to work?

[sdw195]

overlays

[Arisaya]

You can transfer stealth capability via overlays? neat.

[sdw195]

well overlays with sovs (and images) of the people you are attacking

[Arisaya]

oh ok, so it wasn't really cloaking

[Datal]

Hey, hey, hey !
Maybe ID should be for fuel (uranium ?or something else >nebula beer?), because then we will not have a difficulty problems

[sdw195]

Hey, hey, hey !
Maybe ID should be for fuel (uranium ?or something else >nebula beer?), because then we will not have a difficulty problems

umm explain more pls

[stealthx]

I know that, but I seen that armor only once time in my life, it's too rare
The Invisible device should be available more often. And it can be disabled with
one click, and armor NO !

Not only is the ingame stealth armor too rare, they are also hardly useful at all. The idea for the invisible device can be worked around by having switchable armors instead, one set of stealth and vice versa (by using, say, Atarlost's armor switching function).