I think traders have a hard time with trading with all the pirates and all so I think all transport ships should have a special sheild that only shields them from radar and sight so it will be easier, and activates when you leave the station with as much cargo that your ship can carry and your ship has no weopons so you don't misuse it. And the shield does not help reduce damage. So in other words to use this your transport has to be unarmed and full of cargo (or as much cargo as you can buy) to use it.

Dranzer Gigus

Ummm... So, basically a cloaking device that works when you load up on cargo... What if a pirate simply buys some cheap cargo, so they can cloak?

Oh yeah, and please see http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-10-11&res=l ;)

(wow timmy u need to think more about ur idea..........)
-Zeal

Well like i said they have to get a transport ship and buy as much cargo as their ship can hold.

Dranzer Gigus

Well... you would just get mauds flying stuffed with cheap widgets, following you, flare you to death, then eject their own cargo. Get the goodies, and fly back... cloaked... this would be a *bad* idea.

All you said against his idea is nice and all but, you missed few, very insignificant words which are "your ship has no weopons"....

now, even in a prom i dont think you can kill by ramming:)

How about shield equipment that turns on when you use turbo, so instead of turboing you get a shield that drains your battery. Maybe it can stop roughly 75% damage so it isn't a complete invincibility and you cannot fire with it active. Something like that good?

Hmm, doing this would make traders basicly completly invisible... that's a bit too much, and probably boring for both sides. I like xorbital's idea beter.

ok then how about a shield that covers you from radar but not sight so your opponat can only kill you with rockets (i killed a bot with rockets without targeting it so it is possable)

Hmm... making it so that a trader can only kill you with rockets will not make it much beter... question: have you ever been pirated? When was the last time you saw them NOT using rockets :P

yay for timmy!!! hehehehahha

what do you mean "yay for timmy!!!" Trigger?

I *think* he's mocking you... not quite sure tho... :P

Xorbital-"How about shield equipment that turns on when you use turbo, so instead of turboing you get a shield that drains your battery. Maybe it can stop roughly 75% damage so it isn't a complete invincibility and you cannot fire with it active. Something like that good?"

Sort of like the impeller wedges in Honor Harrington... That would be something interesting to implament... When drive is active, top and bottem slices are invincible, but sides and front/back are open.

Now that would be an extreamly fun idea to play with.

If you are invisible from radar AND sight, this would completely elminate pirating, which is a bad idea. Even the devs said pirating is an essential part of the game.

lol yes im mocking him....

now think about exploiting that to flag cap..... load up on cargo and the bots ignore you and players would have a hard time finding you. Bad idea.

@ Trigger: what good does mocking him do, except possibly serve an inflammatory purpose?

toshiro: What good does replying to flaimbait do? Let it rest.

I think the idea is bad. Trading is supposed to be inherently dangerous. Think about it in a role-playing universe, if a government can equip massive, slow, lumbering ships with cloaking devices, why not light, quick, fast fighters?

"if a government can equip massive, slow, lumbering ships with cloaking devices, why not light, quick, fast fighters?"

Power concerns? It could require a massive generator to use...