I can't help but notice that while we have silent running, there is surprisingly very few situations in which it is merited, and usually, people find other ways to solve those situations without using silent running. At this point, it's like Silent running has no real purpose, no instances where that function is a go to option. So, to alleviate that, why not make special reconnaissance, special operations (not like what is already there) and other stealth based missions where silent running is practically needed. For example, I'd like to see a mission where you'd have to sneak into a large mine, kinda like the asteroid ports, but instead of requesting docking, you'd go silent running and land in there while you have a cargohold full of marines or spec ops troopers that do boarding actions or infiltrations. and rather than it be just drop them off and be done with it, make more of the mission. make it so we have to use our data link scanner to scan a few points on the station while carefully maneuvering through. make there be sections of signal "safe zones" to come out of Silent running and let the ship cool off if you don't have heat sinks. the marines communicate directly with you, and if you fail to hack a data link point in time, you can see gunfire inside the station and have to potentially deploy your hardpoints and shoot something to assist your marines inside. this is complex, but I think missions at the moment are just a bit too simple. when you have nothing but simple missions, it gets repetetive and boring, which leads to people just looking for more exploits for better ships. We need more to do. and I'd LOVE stealth missions. this is merely an example though.
Another example I'd love for silent running would be jumping in on another fleet of the enemy, and using silent running to hide yourself while you data link scan a ship for intel. and you only have that window of your silent running to get in close, scan the target, and get out before everything comes to bear and blasts you out of the sky, like, even flying a corvette you would be terribly outmatched. I'd love something like that to get the adrenaline flowing just for stealth. So yeah, this is to say missions need a SLIGHT bit more complexity and higher payout for the complexity, but we need more missions, mostly, for stealth based ops. Metal gear in space anyone?
Another example I'd love for silent running would be jumping in on another fleet of the enemy, and using silent running to hide yourself while you data link scan a ship for intel. and you only have that window of your silent running to get in close, scan the target, and get out before everything comes to bear and blasts you out of the sky, like, even flying a corvette you would be terribly outmatched. I'd love something like that to get the adrenaline flowing just for stealth. So yeah, this is to say missions need a SLIGHT bit more complexity and higher payout for the complexity, but we need more missions, mostly, for stealth based ops. Metal gear in space anyone?