Most useful to implement in White Stars, but also could work in Blues and if you really wanted to have super hard Dark Stars. Visibility would be full sectors as soon as you break the plane of one. Could mess around with varying amounts of visibility on adjacent sectors. Would prevent jumps across the entire map and reward early exploration later in the match. Add in explorer drone with high hull but deals no damage.
Not knowing the loadout of your enemy or the specific placement of rich sectors and planets makes the first 24 hours critical and exciting.
As far as spying goes, you would just need to have tight corp controls in place.
#Fog.of.War
wicked pumice
leaden fable
I like this idea, would force another element to ws to make it more interesting
ashen gate
so much effort has gone into reducing short reaction times in WS, anything pushing in that direction i dont see happening
fog of war could be a very neat tactical concept though, im not sure how TM would work with that
digital wind
Awesome, so I can't see where the enemy is or what they are doing until they are right on top of me.
5 days staring at a static image waiting for something to pop up on the phone so I can ping 4 sleeping corp mates to wake up and do something in the next 5 minutes!
I love this idea 😀
This is what ws has been missing.
devout otter
That is one extremity.. a fog of war could be more dynamic.. "as the star burns the obstructing nebulous matter disolves from star to edges"
The actual center is crystal clear and the gates are obstructed for the first 2 or 3 days..
Needs a lot more thought though and I doubt it will ever be considered..
sour flax
Fog of war over the gate would force match to start if you wanted to switch mods to counter enemy builds
waxen compass
I really like this idea, but think that the current drones should offer some visibility to provide more value. Perhaps the "explorer drone" would offer a larger vision radius or have the ability to discover something that the other drones can't?
Would totally add some more risk and important decision-making into the game though!
zealous bear
I think the sectors should be darkened, however you can still somewhat see through them.. allowing players to still select asteroids and see planets but no players/cerbs. As players pass into sectors players/cerbs are revealed, the sector returns to normal light, once all players gone it turns back into f.o.w. If you launch a drone out of sector it counts and reveals it
Dark White Star more % boost per win/ or same % boost give us creds back lol
Just have decoy drone as well show surrounding sectors?
onyx isle
Since the update to the game is called Dark Nebula perhaps a game mode with fog of war, perhaps a nebula that is ... dark?
zealous bear
Yes but if you do Dark White Star all the cerbs and stuff could be like Dark RS
solemn gorge
I think Blue Stars would be best suited to this