Enemy sees less info

posted on November 16th, 2010, 9:58 pm

i wonder if this could ever be possible, or wanted:

you as the player can see all your ship's details, subsystems etc.

i think it would be reasonble that the enemy would see less, so they could see your shield status, and hull status. but not the strength of your subsystems.

obvious things like engines broken would be detectable as the ship isnt moving. so maybe if any subsystem is disabled or broken, the enemy can know. but they dont know about subsystems that are online and damaged. they just know they are online.

they also wouldnt know exact crew levels, presumably ships in war use sensor jamming to keep the enemy from figuring out which ships can be boarded.

if you are boarding a ship you would have full knowledge of that ship.

posted on November 16th, 2010, 10:00 pm

I like this idea.

posted on November 16th, 2010, 10:11 pm

In TNG at least, it seemed rather easy for them to simply scan and report "their engines are nearly down" "we've damaged life support such and such" - with such advanced sensors it doesn't seem to hurt 

posted on November 16th, 2010, 10:37 pm

But equally, it seems just as easy for them to jam sensors using shields and other gizmos - for example, in "The Wounded" a Cardassian supply ship is able to block both the Phoenix and Enterprise's sensors by running a high-powered subspace field, and there are plenty of other instances where scanners have been blocked.

posted on November 17th, 2010, 12:31 am

I think here we face one of the many problems in the show, how and where do we sort the actual reality of star trek from the story of star trek?

posted on November 17th, 2010, 1:53 am

it's a good idea but a useless feature

it's not like people look at which ship to board (?) unless they desperately want to capture it
also for the sub-systems, they regen too fast when damaged and the ships functions properly, so that is a useless feature

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posted on November 17th, 2010, 9:06 am

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to dust off an old tcr chestnut:
It would be realistic!

Seriously though, in a war you would actively jam enemy sensors.

I can see how this doesnt add much to gameplay though.

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EDIT: optec mentioned something similar for ship names in another thread. saying how the enemy wouldnt be able to see the names of romulan ships, which sounds interesting.

I like the idea of "classified", but i would like to have a cleaner way, only showing stuff as classified for opponents and not the Romulan commander him/herself 

posted on November 17th, 2010, 12:57 pm

to dust off an old tcr chestnut:
It would be realistic!

Seriously though, in a war you would actively jam enemy sensors.

I can see how this doesnt add much to gameplay though.

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EDIT: optec mentioned something similar for ship names in another thread. saying how the enemy wouldnt be able to see the names of romulan ships, which sounds interesting.

With regard to the active jamming during a war, is it not likely that these jammers are disabled when a vessel is damaged.

posted on November 17th, 2010, 6:11 pm

With regard to the active jamming during a war, is it not likely that these jammers are disabled when a vessel is damaged.

depends, wouldnt be damaged every time, wouldnt be undamaged every time.

maybe give damaged ships a random chance to be visible to enemy.

posted on November 19th, 2010, 4:54 pm

I think here we face one of the many problems in the show, how and where do we sort the actual reality of star trek from the story of star trek?

Good thing we don't have to worry about any actual reality in Star Trek