palentir wrote:
I could see it be some sort of super scanning tool, that gets thru higher cloaked planets...IE the one's we all think are hidden....won't be.
You mean it would have an effect called;
Forced Retirement:
Causes Players to quit the game.
Can only be used once.
I'll go out on a limb and say that won't happen. lol
I'm also unsure if it will even be cloak related, i get where the idea came from, but that's just drawing a straight line, that because Clandestine Revisions is a Passive Cloak Increaser, this one must be as well.
If it was cloak related, first off the ability won't be ready right away
In all seriousness, if cloak related i could see it being an ability similar to Bainar but instead of having 10 structures, perhaps a group of 5 or so random artifacts. Some planet structures that might be;
1/1/1 +10% cloak
2min/2arti +5% cloak
3 res + 15% cloak
+25% ship cloak for 48 hours
+1000 planetary cloak for 1 week
Those sort of things.
I also think the planet structure will require Terranian Credits(or some new currency) that will be available from the repeatable daily unlocked once the Ally is Rank 100.
That said, i'm not overly sold on it being primarily related to cloak for planets. Whilst cloaking is indeed mentioned during the conversation, so is the term Ansible, which is also referenced during the Q-Pedd Event & that's a Shield Module.
So it could be something that makes planetary defenses(for planets, shielding is the defense(see planetary aegis, aegis capactiors, shielding yadayada
) higher whilst also providing cloak, like;
Size 1: +1/+1/+2 +10k Defense/+5% Cloak - doubles if planet has more than 2k passive defense.
It might be something really convoluted and given speed of getting around is mention during the conversation as well as ansibles, maybe it's something as bad as;
Adds +5 Helmsman(in this game, speed is defined via thrusters in some cases, so in the mission text getting around quicker = more defense
) +10 Shield(hence the ansible comment). Costs 3k EM: Timer 20 Hours.
Personally, i'd love to see a Terranian Market introduced(albeit not visible via regular market list), with credits(3 per day) obtained from the follow up mission.... yes that's right a new daily mission
The Clandestine Plot ability would then be a planetary ability that has 3-5 possible planet structures, all of which range from 3 - 21 Terranian Moola & the ability will show more options depending on how many Moola you have available at the time of using the ability. 40 hour timer, like Ring of Ascendance.
I'd love to see what else people can think of in terms of abilities outside of cloak.
Taking into account many things are mentioned in the mission text;
Ansible: Shielding
Speed: Thrusters or Defense = Speed in this game.
Show some good thoughts people, will we get some sort of Expanding Planets artifact... who knows what this ability will hold. Maybe it resets your ship even....