Re: The iCloak

> > Instead, I speak of the Illuminati
> > Cloaking Device -- hereafter referred to as the iCloak, to
distinguish 
>it
> > from the standard FT cloaking device.
>
>[much slashage]
>
>Interesting thought...
>
>As a simple note, I would say that salvo missiles should be largely
useless
>against an iCloaked ship.  Missiles work on guidance, and have no way
of
>easily focusing themselves based on visual data, whereas a beam weapon
or
>a nova cannon or the like can just be pointed in a given direction and 
>won't
>care whether or not the target is visible or not.  If you can't direct
fire
>against it easily, missiles should have no usefulness at all.

This makes sense.  With the way the salvos are launched,
game-mechanically, 
it seemed as though they should have some chance of hitting if the
attacker 
made a good guess.  The best answer is probably to have them launched
and 
placed as normal, but the attacker has to make his locking on roll
before 
rolling to determine how many missiles hit.

John Crimmins			  john1x@hotmail.com
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   "We're not at home to Mr. Reasonable, sergeant."
   "I do not hear him knockin', sir."
    --Terry Pratchett, _The Fifth Elephant_

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