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chromaty
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Cloaking devices are useless in Missions because a ship is getting decloaked at every Message Window. In some Borg-missions for example, I can (cloaked) aproach enemy ships, but if I in fire range, a message appears (that Ive read 1000 times before) and my ship lose disguise in cause of this message window.
This is stupid... why do ships decloaking when a message window appears?
Fix this pls, this sux!
Sry for my bad english :P
Greets from ger
This is stupid... why do ships decloaking when a message window appears?
Fix this pls, this sux!
Sry for my bad english :P
Greets from ger
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To sum up: it will stay as it is.
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I bet the Intel Officer onboard who probably is responsible for the cloaking device says a little prayer before engaging it too! :rolleyes:
An Intel officer called Montgomery Scott by any chance?
Scotty would be able to figure out a way to communicate, and pick up items without decloaking.
Didn't you know that sound waves travels more easily through space (and your ship's hull) than it does through water?
Well... at least according to Cryptic...
25th century advanced technology... :rolleyes:
Playing STO spamming FAW is like playing chess using always the computer's suggested moves
Scanning and picking up items decloak you, but at least that makes sense.
The guy in the same room telling you something does not.
Let's hope the new Episodes and STFs don't do it.
If I ask you a question it is not an insult but a genuine attempt to understand why.
When I insult you I won't be discreet about it, I will be precise and to the point stupid.
It's canon, not Crypticverse - why do you think sonic disruptors were space weapons in TOS?
But that's a stupid and hilarious mechanism from a canon point of view, actually also from a gaming point of view.
Decloaking because you are picking some loot is fair : you can't have both.
But decloaking because your officer is telling you something?
Imagine that happening to the Defiant in the Gamma quadrant in DS9 LOL
They were short range planetary defense weapons with less than half the effective range of phasers.
Additionally, I do not think people can talk as loud as 18 to the power of 12 (18^12) decibels high.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Sonic_disruptor
We can only hope that they don't. However, pretty much have gotten use to getting decloaked during missions. Usually only use the cloak when I'm fighting enemies to do some hit and run tactics.
They weren't actually. The only time weapons were identified as "sonic disruptors" was in "A Taste of Armageddon"...and they only worked as long as the Enterprise was in close orbit.
Once she got a chance to take up higher a position the weapon was useless.
personally, i reckon they should let feddies suffer with it how we have suffered with it for years. a quick fix now would be beyond insulting.
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The underlying default basic assumption of the game is that if there is an Interact OF ANY KIND that your Cloak will drop.
Of course, ask any player and they'll tell you that's incredibly DUMB ... but that was then and this is now.
Cryptic has developed a "workaround patch" for this piece of Maximum Stupid ... but rather than fixing the underlying problem (ie. the assumption that makes this stupid in the first place) ... instead this workaround patch has to be applied piecemeal to individual missions.
So rather than Fix Everything All At Once, the only way to deal with it is to "fix" things in eeny-meeny-miney-moe fashion. Guess how much priority Cryptic has put on that?
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Weirdly, picking up/dropping off the secret orders package in the Dyson sphere doesn't de-cloak you (yes, transporters).
*shrug
Feds crying about the 'weird' cloaking mechanic makes me happy tho, they FINALLY see what the KDF has been complaining about for YEARS. Poor widdle feddybear, got his cloak and it ain't better than anyone elses.
:P
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Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
and if they think its bad now, they should have seen it before the patches that went in for the benefit of their new faction (romulans).
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Cryptic thinks everything's good to go.
Time will only tell!
Stop! It's too funny! You're killing me! I haven't laughed this hard in weeks.
So do the messages. Maneuver out of firing range. Cloak and then get your General Chang on. Problem solved.
It's there to use! I use it.. So this way the Borg cube doesn't try use the blue cutting beam on my shields and the two Borg sphere. Comes in handy can use it as weapon also. It's all fun! You play the game your way, I play it for fun..
Time will only tell!
I have a Mogai here and I do the cloaked roflstomp boogie with it once in a awhile. I use cloak tactics in Ker'rat as well sometimes. A few of the Dil farmers in Scimitards really don't like it, lol. Earned me some Ignores and some Report to GM missives. Oh well. Some Captains need every scrap of advantage they can get. It's just the way things are. I know I did when I started playing this game. Anyways, I was not trying to hurt anyone's feelings over this. I was just being a bit of a smarty pants. As per usual.
If you're ship has a means on giving you, say, +40% all damage for a few seconds before even considering whatever TAC buffs and abilities you apply, why not use it?
Unless you're a fool?
:rolleyes:
I guess, huh? :rolleyes:
Edit to add: Actually, you make sense from what I've seen in game. Those Roms that don't even use cloaks, despite them providing stealth and some of the most powerful attack bonuses you can get for a rather lengthy period of time without using captain or BOFF abilities. Despite the fabulous BOFF traits that make the Roms so OP with their cloaked warfare. You are EXACTLY like those guys.
What a waste...