[Blink]

What if in GSW, in a form of keeping others from knowing you were there or not, you could cloak yourself? you would use the cloak spell from GS2, and you would then disappear into thin air(though mods could see you). You would not be visible to the public, though text bubbles would still appear above you when you said something. That way, you could cloak if someone started following you around(who you didn't like) and then meet up with your friends again in a house or something, and keep talking. They wouldn't follow you, and you could stay cloaked and only reveal who you were through text at the begining of a conversation. It would help keep everyone a bit more happy I think...

[Mars Djinni]

Yeah, It's sort of like the thing you click when signing into an IPB forum that removes you from the active users list. Nice idea there.

[Blink]

yup. AIM has the same thing, and they call it invisibility.

[Nobody]

sorry to revive, but I think this is a good idea, especially there was a way you could control who could see you and who couldn't.

[TobiasMar]

Well, I do think it is a good idea so you can hide if anyone if annoying you, and even better if you can use preferences to control who can see you.

[gsninja]

Cloaking sounds like a nifty idea, but it would probably take quite a bit of work to do that...it's a good idea anyway.

[golden_djiin]

then couldn't somebody cloak himself and stalk you easier?

[Blink]

heh, that might make the whole world turn invisible ;)

then again, you could get away from cloaked stalkers by turning cloaked.

[Neon]

haha, that would be cool, and would work nicely.

i was thinking more along the lines of making it so if you move or speak, the cloak is broken.

But eavesdropping would be a bit of an issue.

[Zxor]

Or you buy a cloaking thing, that makes you cloaked for a minute.
If there is cloaking, everyone would be cloaked.

[Blink]

What if it eats up your psynergy? so it only lasts so long, AND, you can get more psynergy by spending more hours on the chat, like posting more on the forums. But you have to be active, you know, talking and stuff. Otherwise someone would leave it up every night.

Probably should get kicked from the chat if you don't move or talk for more than 20 min.

Also, you could regain your psynergy at the psynergy post in the middle of town for free, but it would uncloak you automatically.

[Zxor]

That would be cool, so it is like, evry 5 seconds you lose synergy, or every second you use synergy. But it needs to cost something, that wouldn't make people want to do it all the time.

[Nobody]

I'm not sure if it can be linked to the forum database without screwing it up O_o.
And this suggestion is probably too late to be put on tonight's Beta release.

[Zxor]

But it may go on the actual GSW.

[Blink]

Why should it cost something? You can only use it once before returning to the psynergy stone...until you're really an often user of the chat.

[gsninja]

I agree with the fact that it could go on the actual release of GSW. How about this: You start off GSW with a certain amount of PP. Once you use it up, you can walk around and, like in GS, replenish your PP, or go in the chat room and replenish it a bit faster.

[Neon]

if we all had our way. Max would spend the rest of his life coding the damn thing. And then even longer fixing bugs so we stop complaining.

it is a good idea though :D. The pp thing would work nicely.

[Blink]

ok guys, I got the sprites for cloaking done in case Max wants to add it in. Everyone who's cloaked will look like cloaked isaac. Also, their name won't show up at the bottom. This would be minor cloaked form, while major cloaked form would eat up PP and would make you completely invisible to everone except yourself. Hows that sound?

[Nobody]

gsninja, on Mar 29 2005, 06:42 PM, said:

I agree with the fact that it could go on the actual release of GSW. How about this: You start off GSW with a certain amount of PP. Once you use it up, you can walk around and, like in GS, replenish your PP, or go in the chat room and replenish it a bit faster.

That's a good idea. None of us want a stalker abusing the cloak feature if it gets put on.

And Blink, I was thinking almost the same thing :D

[Blink]

eheh....looks like Max isnt interested in this one. Someone can lock this if they want to, Max really isn't interested in adding it in...

[Someone Else]

You know I think the best way to deal with stalking is to forget PP and let the cloaked person remain cloaked until they enter another part of the map. That way if they're trying to eavesdrop, the people that said person is trying to eavesdrop will know if he's there. And if you're being stalked you could just use cloak immediately when you enter a different map, so the stalker would be too late to get them.

If you understand that. =/

[Max]

I think it's about time I just put an end to this thread. Cloaking will not happen any time soon, so there's no point theorizing how to do it. Stalking and other problems will be solved by our member-moderation system in the beta.