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Covert Ops ship scanner.
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AlStorm Prime
Nova Prospect Enterprises
#1 - 2013-02-18 13:03:40 UTC  |  Edited by: AlStorm Prime
The ship scanner with possibility to be used when yours vehicle is cloaked (aka Covert Ops Ship Scanner) while doing some dirty-bad-spy actions can be a powerful tool for people who builds dastardly plans and will add some variety to life and tactics of Covert Ops pilots. Pirate

I know that this idea was posted here 3 or more times and a lot of clarifying comments where added. So mb the time has come? Roll
Hakan MacTrew
Konrakas Forged
Solyaris Chtonium
#2 - 2013-02-18 13:29:44 UTC
AlStorm Prime wrote:
The ship scanner with possibility to be used when yours vehicle is cloaked (aka Covert Ops Ship Scanner) while doing some dirty-bad-spy actions can be a powerful tool for people who builds dastardly plans and will add some variety to life and tactics of Covert Ops pilots. Pirate

I know that this idea was posted here 3 or more times and a lot of clarifying comments where added. So mb the time has come? Roll

How do you suggest this should work? You know, as you can't target anything while cloaked...

Am I walking on a bridge? Of I look underneath, am I going to find a troll?

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AlStorm Prime
Nova Prospect Enterprises
#3 - 2013-02-18 13:37:45 UTC  |  Edited by: AlStorm Prime
Actually I am not thinking about "How" it shoud be working. I dont think that this part of the game mechanics is my problem. It is obvious that this innovation shoud not give any other superiority except possibility to scan ship secretly. This will bring espionage part in pvp tactics to the new level.

At the same time, tool like this can destroy some of the "bait fitted" tactics. This seems for me a bigger problem.
Nikk Narrel
Moonlit Bonsai
#4 - 2013-02-18 15:47:51 UTC
AlStorm Prime wrote:
Actually I am not thinking about "How" it shoud be working. I dont think that this part of the game mechanics is my problem. It is obvious that this innovation shoud not give any other superiority except possibility to scan ship secretly. This will bring espionage part in pvp tactics to the new level.

At the same time, tool like this can destroy some of the "bait fitted" tactics. This seems for me a bigger problem.

What would balance this?

If you hand out intel with no risk or too little effort, it creates a balance issue.

At the very least, the ship being scanned should know the moment they are scanned. (Sensor equivalent of having a bright light shining onto them)
This should also allow the scanned vessel to target the cloaking vessel for the next 30 seconds, since it blew up it's location by doing this to that specific ship.
Quite simply, the scanning gives the target vessel enough data to know the exact origin of the beam, and we all know if the cloaked vessel is locked it cannot cloak, so this would decloak it as a risk consequence.

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