• Registered: 2006-01-17
  • Posts: 359

Re: Comment and Question on Cloak

I may invite you up here to assisst with that one.....LOL

I decided to just go with Dan's first suggestion... and if it isn't liked, we'll just not have cloaked ships....

Unfortunately, since he provides figs for 3 of our 6 players..... he feels he gets to argue every point..... however, Wulfe Hawke and I are seriously working on dealing with that issue.

Nahuris

  • From: Denver, CO
  • Registered: 2005-03-27
  • Posts: 3,578

Re: Comment and Question on Cloak

rafial wrote:

This is just silly.  First of all, even if you were considering your own ships as "cloaked, dectected" you wouldn't avoid damage, those ships would attacked with a -1 to hit penalty, and enemy ships in the area will be attacked with whatever penalty is appropriate to the tech they are using. See:

This highlights another issue. If you are using area-effect weapons against a cloaked, detected target, should there still be a -1 penalty? Obviously, the answer is going to be "it depends on what the area-effect weapon is simulating".

While it may set off the "realism" detectors in some players, I still have to stand behind my original ruling -- area-effect weapons get to make a separate attack against all valid targets in the affected area; but other than that they are the same as any other weapon (i.e. cannot affect cloaked ships, unless detected when a -1 penalty applies).

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

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  • Registered: 2006-02-26
  • Posts: 7

Re: Comment and Question on Cloak

go0gleplex wrote: "Duct tape and a banana will fix that problem real quick. *WEG*"

Very, very tempting. The problem is that the guys wife is one of those I can slam my man but no one else can types. Basically if she is tearing him a new one (like the time he set a pool of oil on fire while the RPG party was standing in it) it is OK, but the minute anyone else says a negative word it is time to circle the wagons and go defensive against the world mode. In fairness the individual is getting better, SLOWLY, it's just that he grew up playing modern computer games where everything is about improving 1 character and the devil take everything else and weaning him off of the "must beat game" to "enjoy time with friends and have fun win lose or draw" is a bit of a chore.

wulfe-hawke[/quote]

  • Registered: 2022-11-15
  • Posts: 1,286

Re: Comment and Question on Cloak

wulfe-hawke wrote:

go0gleplex wrote: "Duct tape and a banana will fix that problem real quick. *WEG*"

Very, very tempting. The problem is that the guys wife is one of those I can slam my man but no one else can types. Basically if she is tearing him a new one (like the time he set a pool of oil on fire while the RPG party was standing in it) it is OK, but the minute anyone else says a negative word it is time to circle the wagons and go defensive against the world mode. In fairness the individual is getting better, SLOWLY, it's just that he grew up playing modern computer games where everything is about improving 1 character and the devil take everything else and weaning him off of the "must beat game" to "enjoy time with friends and have fun win lose or draw" is a bit of a chore.

wulfe-hawke

Hmm...then give HER the duct tape and banana.  (the results of that ought to be REALLY amusing wink )