Cloaked Wormholes?

Deathstalker · #1 November 17th, 2002, 03:26 AM

Don't remember if this has ever been asked (probably, just another sign of impending old age I guess.

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But seriously, can you add the cloaking ability to wormholes? That way you could have parts of the Galaxy that is unexplorable till late in the game when the right tech is discovered. And if you can't then is it possible to replace certain pictures (or add) of wormholes and add different pictures (say storms with misleading text phrases like damage effects) that are really wormholes? (ie, disguised portals?).

Or am I (again) just babbling?

tesco samoa · #2 November 17th, 2002, 04:11 AM

NO go on the cloaked wormholes... And it has been asked

Suicide Junkie · #3 November 17th, 2002, 09:31 PM

Some other things you could try are:
1) Sector damage ability. Not only discourages exploration, but will require players to research hullsizes and/or armor before they can explore very far.
2) Make many Warppoint lookalikes.
Changing the image of the wormhole to make it look like a storm could work until the player tries to warp through

3) Dummy warppoints If there are 25 storms in a system, and only 3 of them are actually warppoints, it will take players longer to figure out which is which.

Phoenix-D · #4 November 17th, 2002, 09:46 PM

"3) Dummy warppoints If there are 25 storms in a system, and only 3 of them are actually warppoints, it will take players longer to figure out which is which."

Quick solution: "Explore" button.

Phoenix-D

capnq · #5 November 17th, 2002, 10:54 PM

Another way to find them would be the two Empire Options that display the warp lines and the names of the systems the warp points lead to.

Fyron · #6 November 17th, 2002, 11:43 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by capnq:
Another way to find them would be the two Empire Options that display the warp lines and the names of the systems the warp points lead to.

That works after you have already gone through the WP. It doesn't work before you have gone through a WP, cause it doesn't display the name of the target system.

Andr�s · #7 November 18th, 2002, 04:50 AM

But you can see the beggiing of the warp line before exploring.

Taz-in-Space · #8 November 18th, 2002, 05:11 AM

SJ, How do you change the IMAGE of the Warp Points? When I create a map via the mapmaker I only get to choose between the different Warp Point Images.

Fyron · #9 November 18th, 2002, 05:34 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Andr&eacutes Lescano:
But you can see the beggiing of the warp line before exploring.

But, you cannot see where the WP is in the system. That was my point. You know that there is a WP, but you don't know what sector it is in.

Taera · #10 November 18th, 2002, 05:39 AM

taz: you need to create a new WP in the data files and then insert it at the map editor.