I was reading the gap sieres and i came across an idea that would be great to include in vendetta.

Powering down your ship.

EG: Your a pirate hunting traders, so you find a roid near a station and powerdown your ship.
Your controls freeze, you disappear from scan and the player list. perfect for a trap.

But your actual ship stays there, and if your in open space then you could be picked off easily so you park on roids to hide yourself.

Once you tell your ship to power up it takes 5 seconds to get your ship up and runnning, then you'll appear on radar and the play list again.

I don't think this would be too unbalancing, but a nice addition to gameplay...

Picture 30 serco prom's hidden in a asteriod field waiting for the itani cargo ships :D

Kaos_nyrb, yeah this is a good idea, although not the first time its come up =)

I for one have always been a fan of this.

asphy

I like this idea as well. I'd also recommend that there be a way to actively scan hidden enemies with either an addon scanner or a directed scan.

I LIKE this idea! Personally I detest Pirates but it could also be used to hide from the gits too, couldn't it? Especially if you're a newbie and don't have the legs/battery to out run them. Everyone is the same with the power off!

A Power down option would be nice. It would make it feasable for pirates then to get ships that actually match the color of the asteroids; forcing the Traders to counter it somehow... maybe even an escort system! It could be like a group but /escort instead, and if the trader makes the run in one peice, the escorts could get a little money and the trader could get trade xp...

Scanners on the powered down ship would be nice; and all of this would balance it out especially if you include the 5 second startup :D