4. Let's make cloakers blind.
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This article is from the netrek Frequently Offered Clever Suggestions list, by Tom Holub doosh@best.com with numerous contributions by others.
4. Let's make cloakers blind.
Problem: Cloaking is too powerful. Ogging is getting out of hand.
Proposal: Remove certain items from the tac display of a cloaked ship,
like enemy ships, planets, torps, etc.
Why not: Been done. Not very popular. Removing planets makes them hard
to take (you just sit there watching your 'O' flag, hoping that nobody
will kill you because they KNOW you are coming straight in). Removing
torps is bad for the same reason.
Removing other players to make ogging harder is bad because most
players LIKE ogging. It's fun, and it's part of the game.
It turns out that this is a good example of why not to change the
rules of the game. As people have gotten better at phaserlocking and
being aware of the galactic, ogging has become very difficult; where
it used to dominate strategy, now most top teams actively avoid
cloaking in most situations.
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