The Violet Sector

ecvej wrote:Good compromise be that cloaked incoming can be seen due to the hyper engine being detected but they arrive in sector cloaked?

That would pretty much take away all the new interest I have in playing a cloaker.

I didn't understand your scenario. I thought someone did pickups EoT/SoT against you, which is why I went with 9 shots. It doesn't matter either way. And no, you won't stand a chance. When one person can decloak at any time during the no hyper window and fire shots in fractions of a second, they're ...

You realize that the cloaker could have just decloaked and killed you with 9 shots anyway right? Attacking with pickups is almost always less effective than simply decloaking and shooting. So you would have died whether the pickup attack while cloaked ability was in the game or not. It sounds like ...

Cloakers are not too powerful. you just think like that because we were in a frantic and luckily: 1. there was quite a lot of active cloakers 2. not too many active bombers 3. lots of careless people leaving their ships out in the open In a real beta, there is Auto-Pilot, Sleep Tick, and 3 hour tur...

I liked the scans when entire legions were made of bombers. Made it easier to see them coming and get back in time before they destroy your home world in 5 turns.

With a (hopefully) more even spread of ship types now though, it would be nice to go back to the old system.

Fwiffo, the idea is to encourage planet killing over point whoring. If you decide to spend 100 turns getting 7 cruisers over killing a planet, you should take the consequences of that action. This also would allow legions that are out of it a chance to get back into the game. I think the turn amoun...