Deploying Stealth sats

Ruatha · #1 December 18th, 2002, 09:54 AM

I want to deploy a satelite in my enemys system without him noticing it, it should be an early warning system in case he sends an invasion force towards me.
The ship that shall deploy is cloaked with stealth armour, the satelite also has stealth armor.
This is how I expect things to go (Simultaneus game):
1.(turn 1) The cloaked ship arrives and deploys the sat.
2. (turn 2) The sat is deployed and shows up on all scanners, including my enemys.
3. (turn 2) I cloak the sat.
4. (turn 3) It disappears from my enemys scanners, but now he knows where it is and is sure to build a ship with hyperoptics to scan for all my stealthy satellites!
5. (later) He destroys my early warning system.

Is there someway to deploy it already cloaked?

[ December 18, 2002, 07:55: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

dogscoff · #2 December 18th, 2002, 11:12 AM

Send your cloaked ship into an obscuring storm sector & drop the sat in there. It would still be worthwhile to cloak it, becasue hyperoptics etc can still see through storms (if you research the right level) and I think your cloaking will add to the obscurity. Also, he might develop stellar manip and clear the storm...

Ruatha · #3 December 18th, 2002, 11:31 AM

Will my sat see out through the storm?

zaphod-42 · #4 December 18th, 2002, 11:48 AM

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
...I think your cloaking will add to the obscurity. ...

I don't think so. If i have hyperoptics or temporal sensors level III i'm able to see everything cloaked even in sector storms.

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Originally posted by Ruatha:
Will my sat see out through the storm?

Yes.

Phoenix-D · #5 December 18th, 2002, 06:27 PM

Level 3 scanners can see everything except IIRC through certain nebula (NOT storms)

Cloaking does not add. The highest cloak level for each type is used..

Phoenix-D

Ruatha · #6 December 18th, 2002, 07:12 PM

Does a storm that says:
"There is heavy radiation causing combat sensor interference" hide my sat. Or does it just interfere in combat (It says so)?

Ragnarok · #7 December 18th, 2002, 07:20 PM

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Originally posted by Ruatha:
Does a storm that says:
"There is heavy radiation causing combat sensor interference" hide my sat. Or does it just interfere in combat (It says so)?

It does not hide the sat. It has to say something about obscuration(sp) of sensors or some such if I am not mistaken.

DarkHorse · #8 December 18th, 2002, 07:53 PM

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Originally posted by Ragnarok:

quote:
Originally posted by Ruatha:
Does a storm that says:
"There is heavy radiation causing combat sensor interference" hide my sat. Or does it just interfere in combat (It says so)?

It does not hide the sat. It has to say something about obscuration(sp) of sensors or some such if I am not mistaken.

Storms only obscure long range scanners, not sensors. Cloaked ships will still show up on sensors high enough to detect them normally.

Krsqk · #9 December 18th, 2002, 08:00 PM

I don't think Long Range Scanners are affected by storms. The default storm cloaking {IIRC} is level 2, the same as stealth armor. The "interferes with combat sensors" just subtracts the amount {20% default?) from everyone's to-hit chances.

DarkHorse · #10 December 18th, 2002, 08:06 PM

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Originally posted by Krsqk:
I don't think Long Range Scanners are affected by storms. The default storm cloaking {IIRC} is level 2, the same as stealth armor. The "interferes with combat sensors" just subtracts the amount {20% default?) from everyone's to-hit chances.

Depends on which type of storm, I think. Fortunately they tell you if you click on them. Some obscure scanners, some make shields useless, some interfere with sensors, IIRC.
I think stealth armor is level one EM, active and passive, also IIRC.

[ December 18, 2002, 18:08: Message edited by: DarkHorse ]