On 2013-11-14 00:58, Borgie wrote:
is it possable to make the cloak animation match the cloak in timer, right now on dreds its 12 seconds, and after you press v for cloak, your still visable while your sig is dropping but you don't go transparent( on my end) utnill you reach 12 seconds.

On 2013-11-16 14:55, Jim Starluck wrote:

Quote: On 2013-11-14 00:58, Borgie wrote: is it possable to make the cloak animation match the cloak in timer, right now on dreds its 12 seconds, and after you press v for cloak, your still visable while your sig is dropping but you don't go transparent( on my end) utnill you reach 12 seconds.

This is largely due to the changes made lately to have ships be more visible through ECM at high speed.

How visible a ship is gets governed by three values: the radius of its hitbox, the View strength of the ship attempting to detect it, and the target ship's Visibility. That last one is also the value that governs how transparent the ship's model is: at 1.0 it is 100% visible and not transparent at all, at 0.0 it is 0% visible and completely transparent. Previously, Visibility was never allowed to go above 1.0, and would only drop below that if the ship began to cloak. The only two factors which affected how far a ship could be seen through ECM were its hitbox size and the View strength of the detecting ship, which made it very difficult to balance.

Now, however, it is no longer limited to 1.0 and will climb higher the faster the ship is moving. Once you begin to cloak, it starts dropping steadily, but it has no affect on the transparency of the model until it starts going below 1.0. You can see the effect of this; instead of turning transparent smoothly over the course of cloaking, the model remains visible up until the last second, when Visibility gets low enough to start affecting it. It's even more exaggerated on smaller ships at high speed, where the model almost instantly disappears at the very last moment.

I'm not sure this is something we can fix easily.

On 2013-11-16 22:26, Terra Nova wrote:
typo : ion cannon discription says "particle excellerator"

i think its suppost to be accelerator

On 2013-11-17 16:21, Orkan [OO-XI] wrote:
Gotta agree with that. Why do Luth minelayers have good frontal weapons?

Also, Bomber dreadnoughts are now a feature of all factions...

Seems someone forgot to Commission ICC Bomber Cruisers from the Shi Jie Sheng Shipyards...

This means ICC is stuck with no cruiser class bombers as a nice mid option between its bomber destroyers and Bomber dreads while the other factions do. What's with that?

[ This Message was edited by: Orkan [OO-XI] on 2013-11-17 16:43 ]

On 2013-11-17 18:13, Sheraton *XO* wrote:

We have a bomber cruiser now. Its called the Jump Cruiser.

-Sheraton

On 2013-11-17 16:14, _Sajuuk_ wrote:
can anyone explain why luth got minelayers armed with cannons and core weapons? seems like a kick in the balls to the other factions. a minelayer should only have mines! not guns!

On 2013-11-17 19:36, Borgie wrote:

Quote: On 2013-11-17 16:14, _Sajuuk_ wrote: can anyone explain why luth got minelayers armed with cannons and core weapons? seems like a kick in the balls to the other factions. a minelayer should only have mines! not guns!

just the same as icc has a dred with cannons and fighters with ecm to hide its self, and ugto has well i don;t know what ugto has.

On 2013-11-18 00:38, Fluttershy wrote:
K'Luth is totally imbalanced and out of hand.

2 K'Luth cruisers can EASILY dive through a large swarm of 8 or so UGTO or ICC forces, pick off a damaged target, and escape without even sustaining hull damage.

Can 2 UGTO or ICC cruisers dive through a swarm of K'luth dreads and cruisers and pick off a weak target? No, because the severely damaged ones will be cloaked.

The only time K'Luth die is when they fly supply ships, frigates, or destroyers and were being too aggressive or careless.
Cruisers are unstoppable unless it's being piloted by a complete noob.



I cannot suggest a fix to this, it's just due to so many factors that would take me an hour to list.