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BlackOps modes (jump, combat, covert)
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Rivr Luzade
Coreli Corporation
Pandemic Legion
#21 - 2016-03-31 06:07:21 UTC  |  Edited by: Rivr Luzade
Ligraph wrote:
Iain Cariaba wrote:
Ligraph wrote:
The reason a BLOPS is mostly only used with covert ships is because there is no reason to use it with others (that I know of).

Blops aren't mostly used with covert ships. They are only used with covert ships, because the only ships they can bridge are those able to fit covert ops cloaks. Why should it be able to cloak the fleet it's with when that fleet should all have cloaks fit anyway?


Because if they can cloak a fleet I think they will have more uses than bridging covert ships.

That is not their point. Bridging non-covert ships is the point of titans, not of BLOPS.

Talking about how it is used now is absolutely not pointless because you want to push roles on the ship that the ship is not designed for. BLOPS are only meant for covert operations, not for standard fleet operations (some exceptions proving the rule). They do not need to more use cases in order to be used more as they are used exactly what they are designed for and what they can do best.

An easily scannable BLOPS (even a hard to scan BLOPS is because it's just an acrobatic trick to justify a useless feature by implementing ridiculous exception cases) is useless just as the current Mobile Scan Inhibitor is useless. As it is now, you can completely hide big fleets without your targets knowing anything about you and you can strike without the target knowing what will hit them. That is what BLOPS are designed for. With your "suggestion" implemented, the targets can just scan down the BLOPS and see the entire fleet once on grid.

You are not adding options, you are removing the options the ship is designed for in order to implement other options the ship is not designed or meant to use for just to have something "new" for the ship.

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