Cloaking devices?
Conspiciously absent...
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I'm curious if GalCiv will ever add a cloaking device technology thread. It seems consipiciously absent from an otherwise comprehensive tech tree.
Cloaking devices wouldn't need to make ships 100% invisible, per se, but perhaps just cut down the range of ship scanners. For example:
'level 1' cloaked ship could only be seen at 50% of the range of a 'level 1' scanner.
'level 2' cloaked ship could only be seen at 25% of a 'level 1' scanner, or 50% of a 'level 2' scanner.
In combat, the cloak could just provide a general chance to dodge incoming fire which would go up with better cloaks or go down with better scanners. There could even be a targeting computer upgrade (and tech thread) designed to counter cloaked ships in combat (or something), but really it is well countered by sensor technology.
Cloaking devices wouldn't need to make ships 100% invisible, per se, but perhaps just cut down the range of ship scanners. For example:
'level 1' cloaked ship could only be seen at 50% of the range of a 'level 1' scanner.
'level 2' cloaked ship could only be seen at 25% of a 'level 1' scanner, or 50% of a 'level 2' scanner.
In combat, the cloak could just provide a general chance to dodge incoming fire which would go up with better cloaks or go down with better scanners. There could even be a targeting computer upgrade (and tech thread) designed to counter cloaked ships in combat (or something), but really it is well countered by sensor technology.