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Old July 7th, 2002, 09:39 PM

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Default Re: a few wee little questions...

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Originally posted by Lemmy:
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Give it the 'sight obscuration' ability, which is a stellar ability, and everything in the sector, including the planet itself, will be invisible until you have sufficient sensors.
but this would also hide any ships in that ssector
What i wanted was to "cloak" tiny planets, uncolonized, untill you researched sensors good enough to detect them, but if you see enemy ships dissappearing in that sector, you would know there is something there.
Then my only hope for that is the way i posted it?

Your only hope is for MM to add planetary cloaks. I know that giving a planet the cloaking ability won't work because I just tested it. The game says 'cannot load stellarabilitytypes' and then trying to generate a map creates a long list of errors.

You know, it would be nice to have both 'planet' cloaks and 'colony' cloaks. One would really hide the entire planet and be very high tech, maybe an artifact tech. The other would just be a normal facility you could get with cloaking devices. Being able to hide the fact that your colony is present in a system is just about as valuable as hiding the whole planet. The only thing you have to worry about is someone trying to land & colonize.
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