Cloak

posted on December 31st, 2004, 4:33 pm

Hi
I Know that this topic was in discuss some time ago, but i wanted to add something from a different angle.

What really annoys me is that there is a lot of time between decloaking and raising shields. Sometimes it costs You many lifes (not innocent however ).

But what if you could upgrade cloak to drop faster, and shields would also raise faster then?

It's just the minor idea. I don't really hope that You will be very enthusiastic about it, but just think for a moment... (I can dream, can't I?)

Live long and prosper.

posted on December 31st, 2004, 5:50 pm

Good idea, im not sure if it's possible but if it is it'll be a great idea.

posted on December 31st, 2004, 8:07 pm

well it already seems that everyone is used to that decloac thingy and actually it is done quite good. It is all based on the movies and stuff

but i know how annoying it is to play that way. so my suggestion play another race like teh klingons

posted on December 31st, 2004, 10:14 pm

Romal cloaking devices will now cloak / decloak faster so their shields are back up within a shorter time then klingon cloak

posted on December 31st, 2004, 10:36 pm

Romal cloaking devices will now cloak / decloak faster so their shields are back up within a shorter time then klingon cloak

Yeah because it annoys the crap out of me when their shields go back up 3 seconds after they decloak, Half of my Romulan fleet gets destroyed/heavily damaged by that and that is why I stopped using cloak... good thing that u can decloak and shields go up immediately

[Azraael]

posted on January 1st, 2005, 11:35 am

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Shouldn't it be other way - klingons should have their shields back sooner than romulans? After all romulans have very powerfull weapons/slow charging, and klingons have less powefull/rapid firing. So You already have an advantage playing roms - compering with klingons, when using cloak. Roms are capable of delivering first strike with great power, so why give them also shields faster?

posted on January 1st, 2005, 8:12 pm

I agree that it would be a great place for a ship to upgrade.

posted on January 1st, 2005, 8:41 pm

maybe something similar for a still secret feature in v4 ;-)

posted on January 7th, 2005, 12:11 am

yeh i agree the klingon shields should go up faster i would prefer if the klingon disruptors fired more often too cause they do fire quite fast in the shows

posted on January 8th, 2005, 12:25 pm

Welll i suppose if you play to the game strengths, then the klingons should be faster as the rommies are typically slow and powerful and it would mathc this. however if you try to make it more 'realistic' (and i say that with an touch of caution ) then the rommies should be faster as they are the race that developed the cloak.... the klingons stole the idea while in an romulan-klingon alliance before kirks time.

Therefore the romulans should have more expertise in the field, and have probably perfected it a bit more than the klingons

posted on January 8th, 2005, 12:31 pm

Actually, the Klingons didn't steal the Cloak, they traded something to the Romulans for it.

posted on January 8th, 2005, 12:47 pm

it's all known from the series that romulans do have better cloaking engines than klingons have. you should't forget that klingon power sources are less effective. romulans use artifical quantum singularities so they should have a better backup on power than klingons have but romulan vessels are also bigger and of course a ton of large weaponary with often long recharge times...

[Anonymous]

posted on January 19th, 2005, 3:49 am

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It is the balance of the game and I don't think that would be balanced to other races.