Cloaking Planets

[geoschmo]

There is no function in Se4 to cloak planets per se, however I believe you can create a storm in the same sector as the planet which would effectivley cloak the planet. It might even trick a human player unless they had been to the system before and remembered where all the planets are.

Also I think if the player had the ancient race racial trait, they would know there was a planet there, but not be able to see or attack it unless they had sensors that could see through the storm.

We could also mod in a new type of sight obscuring storm that had as it's bitmap a pic identical to the starmap background. This would cloak the planet and also not show up as a storm. However IIRC there is no way to create specific types of storms. I belive it is random.

Also, I have never done any of this so I am not even sure this would work. There may be some hard coded thing that would prevent a storm being created in the same sector as a planet.

Geo