Cloaking, Blocking, and Storms

Roanon · #1 April 13th, 2003, 01:11 AM

Strange. I had a cloaked Scoutship flying into a quadrant and it attacked the sattelites on the other side of the warp point. I'm pretty sure the AI opponent I was scouting didn't have any detection technology then.
Thought it was a normal bug-feature that I attacked and didn't investigate further. Will check it out more next time.

Krsqk · #2 April 13th, 2003, 05:03 AM

I think it may also happen if you have the Cloaking minister turned on--he likes to decloak at the worst times.

Pablo · #3 April 15th, 2003, 01:19 AM

Maybe you ran out of supplies/resourses? Ships decloak automatically in that case IIRC

Roanon · #4 April 14th, 2003, 04:27 PM

Enough resources and (of course!) minister off. Would a minefield from him in ANOTHER sector within the same system detect my cloaker? Or would allies of him in the sector with appropriate detectors transmit their knowledge?

Chronon · #5 April 14th, 2003, 05:28 PM

I usually don't bother with cloaking devices, because by the time I get them everyone else already has a high level of at least one type of sensor (I do hope that for SEV the different types of sensors actually detect different things). Am I missing something? Are there situations where cloaking devices are really worthwhile?

Atrocities · #6 April 14th, 2003, 05:38 PM

I once tried to make a level IV cloak that no level III sensor could detect. I must have messed it up as it caused errors and would not work. Has any one been able to make a level IV or higher cloak?

Suicide Junkie · #7 April 14th, 2003, 06:04 PM

Mines are level 5. Presto.

P&N uses gravitic cloaking levels up to about level 1400, in order to make the relative effectiveness of sensors easier to grasp. 1500- tonnage of ship = gravitic cloak level of ship.