[Spectarofdeath]

I would love to see this kind of idea in game, both the different fighter designs and the in combat cloak. I know the argument against this is "everyone will just build cloaked ships and destroy everything" but what if the cloakable ships were limited to a certain size range? Lets just say 100 KT to 300 KT (I'm not sure the actual sizes in the game so this is just hypothetical). Now, the size of sub goes up as you get higher techs. Also, since the sub can "fire while cloaked" lets even this out by making it so the "Sub" can only carry a certain type of weapon (not sure if this is possible) that once it fires, it takes forever to reload. Lets say it's a missle that does 5 dmg, and it takes 3 seconds to reload, higher tech, 15 dmg, 20 seconds reload (again, not sure it can be done, really haven't looked into modding it yet). You could also limit the sub's speed so it's not allowed to run away from combat (unless it's against something like a dreadnaught). So in combat this now happens, Sub needs to get into range, anything without detection ability is going to end up running away (not knowing if it's just 1 sub or 500) the subs got limited speed so if it's against something like a CL it MAY get 1 shot at best before the combat ends. Against a DN it may be able to just follow it firing into the rear of the DN, but if your stupid enough to let a DN go away from a fleet with det then you need your brain checked esp. if you know the enemy CAN have the subs. Also love the more "personalized" fighters. Special components for special sizes of hulls. I was thinking of modding in bombers, as a vehicle, then I found out you can use the "can warp" feature, so now it would be a unit. So now you can have a war and not even have to use ships. Build some bombers, (along with some escort fighters for defense against fighers, and some torpedo bombers in case the enemy has some ships) send them through the warp point, move to the enemy planet and start to conduct bombardment. And not sure if this is possible, but it would be cool but what it a unit can transport another unit? Paratrooping special forces anyone? Or even if it's not, still, a transport being escorted by fighters, bombers and things like that, while your main fleet is busy somewhere else....man, the possibilities are endless.