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Spotting reflector

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Indreams:
I would think a minute decrease of speed (both vertical and horizontal). Become harder to be spotted, but also harder to sneak around for an ambush.

DJ Logicalia:
I think a "cloud gun" idea was floated around as an idea for a second particle weapon on another post a little while ago. Kinda like an anti-flare. Might work even better as a pilot tool

edit: Found the post. Damn it, Spud, you come up with all the coolest ideas
https://gunsoficarus.com/community/forum/index.php/topic,4983.msg82729.html#msg82729

Richard LeMoon:
This is actually what came to mind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Defence_Light

obliviondoll:
Why not making a piloting tool that works kind of like the spyglass. If you're looking at an enemy ship, you can use a mirror to reflect light towards the enemy who has spotted you and negate their spot.

Obviously, if two enemies can see your ship and you don't know who it was that spotted you, it's a bit of a "luck of the draw" situation where you don't know who to aim for. You'd need to spend a second or so focused on the ship with the mirror selected and the button held down before the spot fully vanishes, much like how it takes time to break a spot when you go behind cloud cover.

Advantage: you can immediately remove an enemy spot from your ship. It could also prevent spotting for a short duration after.
Drawback: It requires a crew member to devote time and effort to identifying the spotter and negating them, and can be undone by a second ship spotting you as well.

This would give non-pilots a tool other than the spyglass that's worth using, and would add another "stealth" technique to the game with its own limitations. They could also make it so that using the mirror would cause a bright flash to be visible, so while it makes you able to vanish, it would somewhat reveal your initial location while doing so.

Squidslinger Gilder:
Problem with this is...it doesn't change the fact that all you need to do is target the guy with the big bright laser beam of sunlight shining at you. Unless what you do is give it a blinding effect for the entire crew. Think Awesomenauts blinding where the screen darkens on the sides but gets bright in the middle.

Course, this would be insanely annoying to other teams and you can bet it would get used a lot. Unless it worked on a long cooldown. Could also make this as functionality of the flare gun, give it some usefulness besides high stack fires and cloud spotting. Forces people to look away to recover sight.

Then, if you really want to go all out and make something to distract...add inflatable decoy airships. Weapon or pilot tool. Spawns a single floating balloon which at a distance, looks like the airship you are flying. Course, can't make it too super so what happens is when you close range, spotting scopes and vision update to reveal its a fake. Say scopes can tell the difference at 500-1000m while regular vision needs to be 250-500m to tell. Could also have a gas cloud around it maybe to cast more of a sillouette image.

Can picture some real creative uses for it. Drop one, lure a foe in, then relocate and ambush from another angle.

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