Just crazy enough... eavesdropping

[yandonman]

posted on June 30th, 2010, 4:14 pm

Last edited by yandonman on June 30th, 2010, 5:07 pm, edited 1 time in total.

During team games (2v2, etc), it's often beneficial to hear what one's opponents are saying. As a crazy idea, if you could build some sort of structure that allowed you to 'intercept' your opponents chat (even when you are not selected as a chat recipient), that would be interesting

(not to mention, a counter eavesdropping option.... )


(yes I know it's crazy [meaning it would be almost impossible to put into the game] - but it's a fun idea )

posted on June 30th, 2010, 4:18 pm

Sounds very Romulan.

posted on June 30th, 2010, 4:18 pm

well it sounds nice but i fear it will cause more trouble than positive effects. Just a feeling for now.

posted on June 30th, 2010, 4:58 pm

Sounds interesting. I would make it a Romulan special station so that you have to choose between cloaking your stations, detonating ships, or listening to your enemies. Maybe make it so you can only listen to one player at a time.

posted on June 30th, 2010, 6:11 pm

i think it belongs in the intel centre. maybe it could be added, and sabotage nerfed a bit. so sabotage fails more and only does damage rather than kills.

posted on June 30th, 2010, 6:13 pm

Pretty neat "outside the Box" thinking

posted on June 30th, 2010, 6:24 pm

I thought about this before.
But meh i dont want to hear my friends insulting me behind my back when they are loosing. 

posted on June 30th, 2010, 7:19 pm

sounds indeed Romulan. I dont yet know if i like the idea or not but it will put some thinking into it

posted on June 30th, 2010, 8:34 pm

Not sure how useful such a thing could be, or even if it'd be wise to implement it. Harder to work as a team when you have to mince words for fear of spies. lol

It'd be its nature become less useful the more players in the game. With a 2v2 odds are good that you'll be bale to hear most of both players if you spam it.

posted on June 30th, 2010, 9:50 pm

An interesting idea - but it could either be completely useless (aka, people using mics), or so useful that it turns the tide of the game itself. I don't quite like supremely unpredictable abilities, even though it is cool. 

I think a more "realistic" way to do this would be to show your enemy's 'plans': I.E. to show what buildings are going to be built (aka, showing the wireframe like on an ally) or to show "targeting lines" - where your opponent's move orders are

posted on June 30th, 2010, 9:58 pm

lol Dom, thats even worse.

posted on June 30th, 2010, 10:04 pm

How so? You could make it last for any length of time you wanted, and it would be actually strategic - rather than relying on a strictly random and (usually) useless variable 

posted on June 30th, 2010, 10:16 pm

i dont really like it because it means that i cant talk about my opponents anymore....

posted on June 30th, 2010, 11:29 pm

i prefer's dom's idea of where buildings are being constructed, and fleet movement ( going to )

posted on June 30th, 2010, 11:32 pm

A couple of times I've purposefully re-activated full chat, in an attempt to sow false information. Sadly, the only time that worked, the reply was "ur ally chat isnt on!!!"...  while they rushed to defend the mining platform I was pretending to attack.  (to their credit, we still eventually lost)