Cloaking Device -
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I don't remember that. It was a while ago though 
Make silent running great again... remove night vision (or remove visibility for ships in SR).
Yep the cougar had a cloak, right?
But aside, Night Vision is horrible in space fights, beats any purpose of outmaneuvering and positioning.
Should be tied to planetside stuff only-
But aside, Night Vision is horrible in space fights, beats any purpose of outmaneuvering and positioning.
Should be tied to planetside stuff only-
If you mean 1980s Elite, I don't remember it having that.
Those old days were strange - it seemed every different platform got a different variation of the game. But the original was the BBC, and that had no Romulans cloaking devices.
Well ack-shullee...
BBC Master Elite
(Bell & Braben, 2nd release 1986, 3rd release 1986 on combination disk with Tube and original BBC disk versions.)
It apparently has more than the 2 original BBC Elite “secret” missions but I am unaware how many more. One is to track down and destroy a Cloak and Dagger ship which has stolen a cloaking device from the Navy. This has been reported to be a (the?) Cougar, a new ship introduced in that release.
Tphhhhht. Anyone playing something after the '84 is playing a fakeWell ack-shullee...
BBC Master Elite
(Bell & Braben, 2nd release 1986, 3rd release 1986 on combination disk with Tube and original BBC disk versions.)
It apparently has more than the 2 original BBC Elite “secret” missions but I am unaware how many more. One is to track down and destroy a Cloak and Dagger ship which has stolen a cloaking device from the Navy. This has been reported to be a (the?) Cougar, a new ship introduced in that release.
(I think it only had 2 missions, and I missed one because I'd taken a Galactic Hyperjump to Galaxy 2 before it triggered, and by the time I worked my way back to Galaxy 1 it refused to trigger
)I got to play in ‘84, though with the poor-man’s version on the Acorn Electron.Tphhhhht. Anyone playing something after the '84 is playing a fake
(I think it only had 2 missions, and I missed one because I'd taken a Galactic Hyperjump to Galaxy 2 before it triggered, and by the time I worked my way back to Galaxy 1 it refused to trigger
No missions for me. Or stars. Or as many ships. Or fuel scooping etc etc.
Pfff, that new-fangled Master thing? Couldn't afford it, but I managed to upgrade my v0.1 BBC Micro, first with a v1.2 OS chip, then a disc interface (involving digging into the circuit board and soldering onto an exposed track), then a massive 128k sideways RAM.Well ack-shullee...
BBC Master Elite
(Bell & Braben, 2nd release 1986, 3rd release 1986 on combination disk with Tube and original BBC disk versions.)
It apparently has more than the 2 original BBC Elite “secret” missions but I am unaware how many more. One is to track down and destroy a Cloak and Dagger ship which has stolen a cloaking device from the Navy. This has been reported to be a (the?) Cougar, a new ship introduced in that release.
These days, when buying something like a USB memory stick, I like to work out how many million BBC Micros it equals.
But they still managed to draw the rotating Cobra with HIDDEN LINE REMOVAL !
Cloaking Device
similar to Star Trek, it would make use of the scanners for emissions or what ever it is called. Of course shields would be offline and you wouldn't be able to be cloaked and jump to another system. oh and no large or medium ships, strictly Small ones... lastly apology's for a lot of suggestions...
It should be possible to make a shields down emissions/visual cloak using an inverted shield technology. Since a shield uses some variety of monopolar function to allow passage of energy/matter in one direction, if the shield is pointing inward at the generating vessel, that vessel should be invisible (visualization is a reflection of light from the hull).
This would require that the ship not be generating thrust, and that no active emissions (weapons, active sensors, normal shields, etc) are functioning. You'd have normal shield charge cycle, and, if the ship wants traditional shields, you could only have one or the other active with a charge cycle for activating either.
It would require its own OC, separate from any actual shields.
What had a cloaking device? Hahahaha
also in WING COMMANDER there were Killrathi cloaked ships, would be great in ED too
It was in the C64 version. You had to take a mission to destroy the ship with it then collect it with the cargo scoop.Cloaking device - as far as I’m aware - was exclusive to the ZX Spectrum version of Elite. There was a flashing ship that you had to destroy and then scoop up the equipment.
Edit: ...aaaand ninja’d
that's because kilrathi were hairy klingons to be fair