Stealth Armor

[Tnarg]

I just updated a few of my exploration ships with stealth armor so that I may skirt through enemy territory without any harm. To the best of my knowledge the enemy does not have scanners that pick up level 1 Active and Passive EM countermeasures. I unfortunatly just got hunted down and unmercifully slaughterd. What's the deal, how did they see me?

[Andrés]

Did you "turn on" the stealth armor?
Also note that even if they don't have sensors and the cloaking is on, you will still be harmed by minefields.

[Grayhorse]

Um

I thought stealth armor was auto active and didnt require to be turned on.

[PvK]

That would explain it, then.

The reason you need to turn it on is so you can specify which stealth ships you want to start combats, and which you want to sneak by. Otherwise, your stealth armor ships would only fight when discovered by enemies.

Captain Bub: "Attack that enemy troop transport!"

Ensign Bubu: "Sorry sir, they can't see us because of our Neeto Technologies Mark XII stealth armor. So, er, well, we can't attack!"

Captain Bub: "Doh!"


PvK

[Suicide Junkie]

You have to give cloak orders, in order to get your ship running silent. Otherwise, crew members might leave lights on, or be sending Messages, etc.

[LGM]

Cloaking is never automatic. You have to press the Cloak Button (or keyboard shortcut). Note that you do not fight if you move through enemy space cloaked and undetected. You must uncloak to fight that turn. The stealth armor defense modifier applies if you are uncloaked.