16:15 <+CrazySpence> a target spoof would be cool though, if someone couldnt tell what you were until they saw you
16:16 <+drazed> that would be awesome... you know what else would be near (and easier to implement)? ship-transponder addon... where you put in an addon
that makes your ship register as a different type of ship in the sector list (and plugins that use the sector list)... so for example you can
put a "prom transponder" on a moth so people don't bother chasing you, or a moth transponder on a prom so people do chase up to you till it's
too late and you got

We were chatting on irc and this came to mind.
Imagine a trader spoofed as a simple fighter or a bomber spoofing as a less threatening target during a bombing run and its true intentions not detected by the defending players until the payload was released?

Limitations: if they can see you they can tell what you are

You are assuming that identifying your ship type is the responsibility of the transponder. But, to try and work with you here...

I would not mind an addon that masked your ship type. Just saying that the fact that it is masked should be rather obvious. Assuming that my radar identifies ship types by radar signature, then the addon would jam the radar. My radar would then identify that ship type as "radar jammer".

+1

I use mouselook and, more often than not, pick targets visually (not with the sensor log), so I don't know how effective this might be (although it is a cool idea).

Very cool idea! Helps traders, helps pirates... its win win.

+1

I use mouselook to visually scan for targets as well. This reminds me of some fun AceCombat moments in though. I'm all for futzing with people's radar.

It will make visually scanning for targets more important, especially in a BS situation (this was brought up in IRC, how a bunch of people could jump in in bombers mocked up to look like IBGs or whatever, and then not be prioritized until it's too late). It's a fun little thing, and I like it. I kinda think that it should be mass-limited though, so a light can only spoof another light, and so forth.

+1

(And if it does get implemented, I want a special Ice Cream Truck spoofer!)

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+tons

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these days pirates chase everything, due to the low moth content in grey. having a prom isn't going to stop me from chasing you, it will just give you 0 time to pay. not that anyone pays these days anyway... or at least very often. i still want this tho!
would be teh funz for those who don't check their targets visually.

\o/

im going to lawl at all the idiots who put one of these on their ship instead of using said port for a weapon.

i often use an orion hornet with only 3 energy weapons, and no flares to keep it light and able to catch up to a moth with ease. if this thing allowed me to look like a wtd from a convoy, that would be lulz.

I think that anything that brings us closer to some type of stealth set up is a great idea.

+1

Dont know how effective this would really be, but it's definitley worth a try. I don't think sacrificing a weapon port would really be worth it though (perhaps on a moth), perhaps there is a different avenue we could use?

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aww...why not.
+1
Sometimes I have fun looking through the various things available that I will never use. I say we need more of these things that people only use either once and say never again or that people only use for lulz. I would like to see an item that actually covers your ship like a giant cardboard box and you can color it with all sorts of colors or make it look like an ice cream truck(for you Denji) or some such. Then we could do things like park outside of stations in creepy vans and wait for the kids...erm...i mean other players. OH...we could also use something that allows you to set your health...so like you could register that your almost dead or if your almost dead you could register that you are at 100%, then someone might come along thinking they got you easy and be taken by the fact that your not dead. OR, maybe we could also change the distance meter by putting in that we are like 100m away when we are at the very edge of the radar range...in real time so like I appear to be close...oh wait...now im far away..no wait...now im 1m away..etc. Oh, I got another idea, maybe we could hide our faction too, so like a player might think...hmm, I can kill this dood in faction space and not get much taken away since hes like hated and I'm admire..BUT..hahaha hes admired too. OH, heres a fun one, why not make something that controls weight of the object in the port at real time, so like, 1 second you could set it to be really light and fly all over the place, the next you could set it to really heavy and SET RAMMING SPEED FULL!!!!
yay...I can see the definite benefits of this.

EDIT: Sorry, I couldn't resist the lulz but its seriously a +1

I count 10 +1s, several +0s/-0s, and a +tons. Devs have any comments?

+1. Sounds cool.