silent running

Would be really awesome to be able to use the Silent Running mechanic for PvE. I feel like this is something that has just been forgotten about.

I know that firing one's own weapons breaks silent running. I have two questions regarding this (player vs player): 1) How long after firing your weapons before a ship is invisible on radar and the contact list again? Does one need to do anything besides wait? For example, retract hard points...

Hi everyone, I was wondering if it makes sense to tailor a ship for using silent running in combat as much as possible to avoid damage, and have a general low amount of heat emission (engineer power plant for that aspect) to be less lockable? Would this work out, also by equipping as much heat...

This is gonna be a long read. As most threads go that try to tackle fundamental changes to the game for the nth time, I expect few views, mostly downvotes, and replies to "git gud", but I gotta put it out there or it'll never leave my head, so here we go: tl;dr 1) Increase the utility of the...