Stealth (cloaking buildings and satellites)

Discussion in 'Planetary Annihilation General Discussion' started by zack1028, December 2, 2013.

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Would you like to see some kind of cloaking ability built into the game?

  1. Yes, please add cloaking devices. Would add some new strategy to the game!!!!

    34.5%
  2. Maybe, but depends on what there thinking.

    44.8%
  3. No, Could really unbalance the game and just really isn't worth the work!!!!

    20.7%
  1. Bastilean

    Bastilean Active Member

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    Maybe you should do a search before you tell people what you think that Uber has or hasn't said. Thanks
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  2. bobucles

    bobucles Post Master General

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    Starcraft cloak: Perfectly invisible. Perfectly broken by a detector.

    Supcom cloak: Perfectly invisible to normal vision (usually combined with stealth for immunity to radar). Perfectly broken by omni detection. Broken by a power shortage in THEORY, but was bugged for the longest time.

    TA cloak: Can be broken by
    - getting too close (you can see cloak range ring by holding shift)
    - performing ANY action (moving is FAR more expensive than stationary)
    - taking ANY damage or being near ANY area effect (any PA doomsday weapon is a super AoE)
    - lathing or being lathed
    - running out of energy

    TA cloak worked because TA cloak was plagued with tons of weaknesses that an enemy could exploit.
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  3. tatsujb

    tatsujb Post Master General

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    why skip straight to cloaking an not even talk about stealth.

    I'd rather vote about stealth first (in which I am in favor of BTW)
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  4. thetrophysystem

    thetrophysystem Post Master General

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    Meh, radar is too strong. I am against any system to mass cloak anything, however scouts probably should be allowed radar immunity and possibly even see "sources of radar" it is in range of.
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  5. brianpurkiss

    brianpurkiss Post Master General

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    I... uh... what?

    Why?

    Searching through the forum to find discussion topics is very doable. But searching through thousands of posts to find one person's would take countless hours. I already dump way too much time into the community.

    Take my comment at what it is or do the search yourself.
  6. Bastilean

    Bastilean Active Member

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    Why would I search for something that isn't there? Citation or it never happened.
    Last edited: December 2, 2013
  7. cwarner7264

    cwarner7264 Moderator Alumni

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    He said "I'm pretty sure" which quantifies his statement. He never claimed it to be gospel, nor should you accept it as such.

    He was trying to be helpful. There's no need to be so rude.
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  8. BradNicholson

    BradNicholson Uber Employee Uber Alumni

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    It's a "maybe" at this point. Probably not at launch.
  9. brianpurkiss

    brianpurkiss Post Master General

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    Thanks for the confirmation!
  10. gobbygee

    gobbygee Member

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    Yeah I think a Radar jammer would be nice, but nothing that make things invisible. Just blocks radar. This would be nice to see and play with but not needed.
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  11. zack1028

    zack1028 Member

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    Yea..... that is true... radar jamming would be nice to play with

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