Nerf Disguise

I don’t know about you guys, but I’m getting sick of disguises being worn by people launching a sneak attack. SO! As an issue of game balance, what I’d like to see is certain restrictions placed on disguising.
1) You may not use murder, lunge, ambush, or other commands which initiate combat while disguised.
2) If you are attacked while disguised, certain force abilities (such as batting blaster bolts back at their POA) are reduced in effectiveness.

Oh Gee! I’m wearing an uberthick, heavy mask and full body disguise that includes eye-color changing contact lenses, or even goggles which make my eyes look like another species’. I’m gonna pwn you!

This would discourage many people from using disguise 100% of the time (Yes, it’s obvious so I’m gonna point at you @bobobo) so that you can’t be tracked or farsighted and generally force people to actually expose themselves and use disguise as it was intended: as a means of slipping out of trouble, getting past your enemies without attacking them, and tricking people into selling you ships (edit: or revealing information) when they would otherwise know not to.

I honestly don’t agree with the first point. Maybe BIG TIME penalties on said commands, but.. not complete restriction, that makes no sense.

I personally don’t have disguise on any of my characters. So for what it’s worth, I disagree with limiting a player’s actions while disguised as per that first point. A penalty to certain skills while wearing disguises wouldn’t be illogical, but it should scale with the disguise, no? Again, not sure how disguise works, but I believe it takes varying amounts of putty depending on the disguise? So perhaps make it to where the more putty used, the bigger the penalty. But if all the person did was change skin color, eye color, hair color, and some facial features (and stayed within the same race or something close to their race) why would it affect their ability to fight?

As for using disguises as they were intended…. Assassins use disguises too. And they don’t necessarily shed their disguise before they strike. Sure it sucks, someone gets attacked by what they think is an orange-skinned Falleen, only to find a pile of clothing and orange silicon scales shed in the alleyway. Now they don’t know who they’re looking for… but that’s the point. Disguises should be used for all the other stuff you mentioned, but attacking while disguised is perfectly valid too. Though maybe there should be a chance to destroy bits of a disguise during a fight, but I think I’ve seen that mentioned in another thread.

I find it interesting that just last night, most of OOC was discussing how easy it is for disguises to fall off in combat.

Call me crazy but I had thought that keeping who you really are hidden, was the point of a disguise. I don’t have a single character who can disguise, and have to deal with people doing every bit of that to me, on most of them…and yet I love how disguise is now. It gives people a pair, where previously they sat in homes using comlinks to threaten everyone while planning on never going out. Leave disguise as it is, find something broke, fix that instead.

I like the new look of disguise, but are ya’ll being sarcastic when you say it actually falls off in combat? It’s been a long time since I’ve used disguise…call it a year or more.