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Old August 1st, 2002, 11:07 AM

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Default Re: Cloaking question

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Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Hmm, I've run into another snag... What is the point of a level 1 cloak in anything but EM-Active? According to what I read in the manual it seems such a cloak would have no effect unless there were a level 1 scanner in EM-Active - ships start with level 1 scan in EM-Active and level 0 in everything else, right? Or do they start with level 1 in everything? If that were true, then you'd need a level 1 cloak in everything in order to be invisible from even the lowliest satellite! But there's no level 1 EM-Passive scanner, or level 1 Psychic scanner... all the scanners start at level 2. So what IS the point of a level 1 cloak in something other than EM-Active?
Ok.
  • Your ship has no scanners. EM-active detection 1, 0 to all other types.
  • I put an EM-active cloak on my ship, which grants EM-2 cloak.
  • Now your ship can't see mine.
  • You put a temporal scanner level 1 on your ship.
  • Now you can see mine again, even though I have a cloaking device. I need temporal cloaking 2 to be able to hide again.
That is the usefullness of level 1 scanners. (Except for EM-active lev 1, of coarse. They come standard on all ship hulls. Is that moddable?)
Now tell me, did I completely mis-understand your question?
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