Double Cloak

posted on August 29th, 2009, 6:12 pm

(pilfered from SCII idea about deep burrow)

An idea: Have an upgrade to Romulan cloaking that requires two 'pieces' of cloak detection at once to see it (i.e. have the overlapping area between two tachyon detection grids detect a 'super' cloaked ship, but the area covered by only one tachyon detection grid does not detect it)

posted on August 30th, 2009, 10:31 am

sounds like an interesting idea. an update to the current cloaking system is planned which gives some more variety in cloak (detection).

posted on August 30th, 2009, 1:32 pm

I've noticed that large groups of cloaked vessels can cause framerate issues on my system (which is a medium-high spec machine). Is the because of inefficient coding, or simply down to the nature of the cloaking effect?

posted on August 31st, 2009, 9:43 pm

As all transparancy effects cause a pixel to be raytraced several times, such a behaviour is quite understandable. I don't believe there is a solution when the transparancy-effect stays that way.

posted on September 1st, 2009, 11:26 am

yes, there is currently no way to solve that issue with the effect as it is.