I remember the fun i and my brother had when one of us was flying an Ilwrathi dragon in star control... Especially when you both can`t see that cloaked vessel.
Prediction fire based on asteroids changing their trajectory, incidental collisions with planets, fire breath fired on deduction based on zoom level - oh man, it was so damn cool!
I remember playing it with friends. Good times.
Although, with the way cloak worked, you could always tell exactly where the other ship was - since the screen centered on the midpoint between the two ships. Something I didn't know for the longest time - if you pressed the fire button while cloaked, the Ilwrath would instantly turn to point towards the enemy right before coming out it.
I didn't quite understand: does the phase ability replace shield and a ship system; or if a ship can phase can it have a ship system as well, e.g. ship can phase and have drones or ship can phase and has burn drive
Phase cloak replaces the shield, and you use right-click to turn it on and off. The ship still has a system, though.
What happens if a ship with launch bays phases with fighters on-board?
- I know this has been mentioned but will there be a way for you to tell fighters to say on board until released (This could be done with ship systems, but then you lose a different ship system)
I'm guessing ships with phase tech don't have flight decks or drones.
Yep. Technically, you could specify for a phase ship to have decks or drones, but it wouldn't work very well - rather, it would just ignore the phase cloak and its status entirely. None of the stock phase ships have this issue (i.e., they don't have drones or flight decks).
Although, it'd probably look ok - since fighters/drones fade in/out while taking off/landing, they should look fine interacting with a phased ship. Lore-wise, you could say that a phase carrier has the tech to pull fighters into phase with it as they come in for a landing, or some such.