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Small QOL request

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited December 2010 in Klingon Discussion
Cloaking in sector space. Klingon ships can in fact cloak whilst running at warp speeds, why cant we?

If i am in sector space and decide to wander into federation/contested sector space, i would like to cloak (even though cloaking in sector space does nothing for gameplay) and perhaps allow that cloak to last even into the next system. That way it becomes a true cloak and not just a means to avoid a fight.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Signed/supported/agreed. Devs, make it so!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    This will be particularly interesting if we ever get Open PvP Zones. And as such, it might be very imbalanaced - or create interesting gameplay opportunities. Currently, it's irrelevant so... why not? (maybe because it doesn't really add anything?)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Perhaps in the open pvp zone but really? You are not cloaked in sector space because your powers all deactivate and your hull and crew rapidly recover. This is also done to allow other players to see you to open communications and the like
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    I like this idea and think it fits well with the KDF and Romulans. More cloaking in sector space.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Indeed, I've wished for this many times simply because, depending on the mission, it can occasionally feel "appropriate" to drop into a system with active cloak (as it often happened in the shows).

    It also serves a gameplay purpose, though. Allowing a cloaked approach would avoid spawnganking like we've had it in the End of Beta event in the Sol system (admittedly not much use until we get a similar event again). And it would allow you to sneak away if you happen to once again spawn in the middle of the Fed fleet in Kerrat because the game keeps mixing up the starting zones. :mad:

    PS: I also miss the semi-transparent cloak effect we had months ago. The blue "ghost ship" look keeps bothering me, though I can imagine why they've changed it. I think it would have been better to consider alternative solutions for team visibility.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    tyman2480 wrote: »
    Perhaps in the open pvp zone but really? You are not cloaked in sector space because your powers all deactivate and your hull and crew rapidly recover. This is also done to allow other players to see you to open communications and the like

    Whilst i appreciate the need for the ability to see you in sector space, but klingon faction players can still see and target other cloaked klingon players, so this should have very little impact on klingon to klingon communication.

    Plus, the ability to cloak is 100% optional. You dont HAVE to cloak ever. Even in a mission. If you choose to cloak in sector space, then you wear the price of no ability for the federation players to see you and therefore communicate with you.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    been wishing for this for quite a while, now, too. wouldn't mind seeing ship to ship combat while in interstellar space as well, atleast along the neutral zones. too many times have I seen starfleet encroaching on Klingon space without challenge

    Valias, you'll recall that was a bug, when Klingon ships were almost literally invisible. it's one bug Iwant to see put back in. this blue "cloak" dosn't really do what it's intended to do
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    That was a bug? Aww. They could've at least make it optional. It looked so much more like a real cloak!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Actually in the shared DSE in borg space fed players can see cloaked klingons...

    So it just comes down to you flying around as blue lines instead of your ship texture :cool:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Valias wrote:
    That was a bug? Aww. They could've at least make it optional. It looked so much more like a real cloak!

    yeah, and I was not impressed to find out that it was "fixed":mad:. at the time, Klingon ships were less likely to be visible in PvP, but the thinking was that it was difficult for the player to actually see thier own ship. I had no probs seeing my ship when cloaked
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Plus, didn't other "semi-cloaked" ships still have their names over the model, allowing easy identification and mouse-selection? I don't see the problem. :(
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Valias wrote:
    Plus, didn't other "semi-cloaked" ships still have their names over the model, allowing easy identification and mouse-selection? I don't see the problem. :(

    they may have, unless it was disabled in hud options, or set to mouse over
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