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Originally posted by Resident Alien:
1. There is no difference between Tachyon, Optical, Gravitic, Psychic, Temporal scanners at the moment (v1.11).
A ship with any of the sensor level I components can see Cloak I or Stealth Armour ships in normal space.
Any Sensors II can see Cloak II and any Sensors III can see Cloak III.
That's because you only need sensing capacity that meets or exceeds cloaking capacity in one area. The cloaking devices provide level X in all areas. Sensors that give level X in any one area meet the criteria.
I've been thinking of adding something called "temporal cloaking" (which might work by disrupting the timing of particles striking the ship) to the appropriate special knowledge tree. Temporal sensors would see through the cloaking by detecting this very disruption but other sensors would be more easily spoofed. I was thinking of giving Temporal Cloaking I level 3 cloaking in all areas but temporal, in which it would have only level 2.
Something like this would have the intended effects, if it works in the testing I haven't given it yet. All level one sensors save temporal would be ineffective.