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Originally posted by dumbluck:
Cloaking that is percentage based instead of level based. That way, you never really know if your ship slipped past his sensor grid until his fleet pounces on it...

Originally posted by Rigellian:
Done this sort of thing before in modifications to games. I have found the critical thing is this - you must generate 'false contacts' somehow. Another factor to include is a range dependency, so you can 'close in and confirm' that hazy little blip on the screen.. 8-)

Good thinking, I think I like the range idea a lot. Of course you could make the effectiveness per range modable as well !! So maybe Psychic Sensors would have a 50% chance of detecting at range 1, but only 25% at rng 2, and 12.5 at rng 3; while Gravimetric Sensors could have 30, 25, 20, 15, 10% at ranges 1,2,3,4, and 5 respectively.

The effectiveness and/or cost of cloaking can be tied to ship size as well, so it's easy to sneak that escort past his fleet but those 30 baseships are a different matter. Similarly for fleets of ships, they should get progressively harder to hide.

Hmm, yes, you can mod the % chance to hit in combat, I suppose it wouldn't be that much harder to introduce a % chance detect line to the code.

Good Ideas! I hope Aaron reads this thread