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Cloaked Ship

October 31, 2016 10:02:04 AM from Galactic Civilizations III ForumsGalactic Civilizations III Forums

What would be a cool feature would be cloaked ships.

 

Would need different tech levels to cloak different size ships (smaller are easier).

Also would/could/should reveal themselves every once in a while (maybe start of turn?, when firing, etc).

 

Also would need advance sensors to detect them, both at a base level and ship level.

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Reply #1 October 31, 2016 10:45:57 AM
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Cloaking is already present. Just unused. (Unless your Klingon or Romulan in my GST mod *Evil Grin*)

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Reply #2 October 31, 2016 11:40:25 AM
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The reason cloaked ships haven't made it in the game yet according to past posts from Dev's, is that there are many AI issues with cloaked ships that they haven't ironed out.  They decided to work on other things instead.

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Reply #3 October 31, 2016 5:10:17 PM
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If you want a cloaked ship, simply fly through a wormhole!

Your probably not invisible to the AI though?

Also can other players see your invisible wormhole ship or not in multiplayer?

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Reply #4 November 1, 2016 6:51:32 PM
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Maybe actual cloaking is not easy or worth it to make, but maybe a different way will work just as well. If it hasn't been attempted, having the ship reduce the sensor range of of ships within its sensor range? Something like the Starbase module that slows ships. Just a thought.

 

Darca

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Reply #5 November 1, 2016 10:43:47 PM
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Quoting DARCA1213,
reply 4

Maybe actual cloaking is not easy or worth it to make, but maybe a different way will work just as well. If it hasn't been attempted, having the ship reduce the sensor range of of ships within its sensor range? Something like the Starbase module that slows ships. Just a thought.

 

Darca

 

Actually that is jamming, but already used in the game to influence weapon accuracy.

 

From the perspective of realism though, jamming is appropriate to reducing sensor range.... since radar jammers actually exist, whereas no jammer for weapon accuracy exists, instead they call that 'counter measures'.

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Reply #6 November 17, 2016 9:46:32 PM
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Quoting Mystikmind,
reply 5


Quoting DARCA1213,
reply 4

Maybe actual cloaking is not easy or worth it to make, but maybe a different way will work just as well. If it hasn't been attempted, having the ship reduce the sensor range of of ships within its sensor range? Something like the Starbase module that slows ships. Just a thought.

 

Darca



 

Actually that is jamming, but already used in the game to influence weapon accuracy.

 

From the perspective of realism though, jamming is appropriate to reducing sensor range.... since radar jammers actually exist, whereas no jammer for weapon accuracy exists, instead they call that 'counter measures'.

 

Wait...so if I mod the game by changing the tags from accuracy to sensors, and then putting the code on a sensor; then it would jam the ai's sensors!?!?

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Reply #7 November 23, 2016 5:14:42 PM
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Quoting DARCA1213,
reply 6

Wait...so if I mod the game by changing the tags from accuracy to sensors, and then putting the code on a sensor; then it would jam the ai's sensors!?!?

 

I highly doubt that would work, but then, I'm no modder?

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