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Stealth armor only cloaks you in a couple of the 5 areas of visability

(Taken from the SE4 html manual - 'sight' section)

There are 5 sight types in the game called EM Active, EM Passive, Psychic, Gravitic, and Temporal. These are the technologies used to detect other enemy ships. All objects can be seen with these different sight types. Each object starts with a standard rating of 1 in EM Active sight, and zero in everything else. This means that they can detect other objects by sensing their Electro-Magnetic emissions. All objects in the game can be seen with a level 1 in any of the 5 sight types (unless the object is somehow obscured).

Objects can be obscured by natural or technological means. Obscuring is the idea of making something harder to see (sense). A cloaking device adds levels of obscuring to the object in certain areas. Storms and nebulae may also do the same. If an object is obscured, it can only be detected by that level of sight type or better.

For example, if I have a cloaking device which obscures both EM Active and EM Passive to level 3, then this ship cannot be seen by anyone. Unless, however, a player in the system has sensors with EM Active Level 3, EM Passive Level 3, Psychic Level 1, Gravitic Level 1, or Temporal Level 1. A sufficient sight level equal to or greater than the ship's obscuring ability, in any of the 5 areas, will allow you to see that ship

Cloaking is the activity of making your ship harder to detect. Any kind of cloaking will give you levels in different sight areas (obscuring). These levels are only in effect while the ship is cloaked, and are removed when the ship uncloaks. Cloaking can be given through a device, special hull materials, or just a natural part of the ship itself.

Sensors give your ships sight abilities to defeat cloaks. The more advanced your sensors, the more items you can "See" within a solar system. Since sight is always at a system level, you see ships within a system at the level of the best sensors of all of your ships within the system. If you have two different ships, with different sight abilities, you will "see" the system with both of them combined. Basically, if you have one ship in a system which can see cloaked enemy ships, then you can see cloaked enemy ships (of that level) everywhere in the system.


-----did you have ANY sensonrs in the sector? on ANY of your ships?----