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Originally posted by Marty Ward:
Not only increasing the number of techs but also the possible combinations of cloaking/sensors. If you had a cloaking device for each type of sensor you would have what, 5X5 combos? Now any level 1 sensor reveals level 1 cloak.
I like more combinations. That way I have to ask myself did I research the right thing?
I thought about this to. But as far as I understand how cloaking works it might be difficult: If you have any sensor that has the level equal or above of a cloaking device in that technological area you will see the ship. So it's no use to have cloaking level 5 (cannot be detected) in let's say aktive EM alone. Any level 1 detector in any others scanning technology will reveal the ship.
However what you could do is to create cloaking device that are completely invisible (Level 5) for all but 1 or 2 scanners. Then to be sure to see all ships you had to combine differents scanners.
But again there might be two problems. First you would have to teach the AI to handle this: lot of work! Second what happens if you combine two of these cloaking component on one ship so that all scanners are blinded? You probably would get a really invisible ship without possible counter measure, what would imbalance the game.
The solution I would prefer (but this needs change in the hard coded area) are scanners with different range: Low sensitivity scanners that cover the whole system (as now in the game for all scanners), but they would miss the higher cloaking levels, and low range scanners with high performance, that would defeat even the best cloaking.