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Since radical new ship modules have been added with the effect system , I wondered if the old jamming and cloaking could follow that new method. Instead of one block per ship , temporary or sustained stealth could require a certain fraction of the ship's mass in effect modules to decrease energy usage to manageable levels.
I believe this would be quite simple to implement. Constant cloaking could feature increased energy usage over time , so that a ship made entirely of power cores could barely stay cloaked with one effect module.
Adding more cloaking modules than power cores would save on ship mass (with diminishing returns) but the energy cost of thrust , shield regeneration and weapon fire would matter a lot more. Permacloaking ships would be highly specialized and much less effective in frontal combat.
I believe this would be quite simple to implement. Constant cloaking could feature increased energy usage over time , so that a ship made entirely of power cores could barely stay cloaked with one effect module.
Adding more cloaking modules than power cores would save on ship mass (with diminishing returns) but the energy cost of thrust , shield regeneration and weapon fire would matter a lot more. Permacloaking ships would be highly specialized and much less effective in frontal combat.