Planetary Cloaking Device

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Yes, but do the planets actually get cloaked in 1.85, or does it just look pretty with the button activated?

If a planet recognises the cloaking ability, it must be possible to cloak a planet. And it was apparently supposed to be working before. Try setting up a planet with a cloak facility and using the hot key for cloaking on/off in a 1.84 game. It might work.

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by Andres:
ISTR that some facilities such as RD and SP don't work on a cloaked planet.

Does this sound illogical? How do the freighters find the cloaked planet? How does a ship resupply itself if it can't find the planet? It's obvious that this sort of 'trick' is only useful for military or other 'special' planets. You can't expect to cloak your entire empire and have it to continue to function normally.

[Kamog]

Cloaking planets actually works? That's great!
So if an enemy ship is in the same sector as your planet and the ship doesn't have the sensors to see the planet, will the planet be blockaded? If not, then can you unblockade a planet by cloaking it?

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Yes, but do the planets actually get cloaked in 1.85, or does it just look pretty with the button activated?

If a planet recognises the cloaking ability, it must be possible to cloak a planet. And it was apparently supposed to be working before. Try setting up a planet with a cloak facility and using the hot key for cloaking on/off in a 1.84 game. It might work.

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Actually... cloaking facilities do NOT cloak planets now.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

"well, sir, we should be on the planet."

"you sure?"

"well, this is where the charts say it is. plus, we've got gravity."

"this ships got artificial gravity that you can't turn off."

"well, i'm pretty sure we're sitting on something."

"well, then, you go first."

"rank before bueaty. i insist."

and there we leave our hapless insubordinate and noncomander, no doubt to stay in their current location for quite a while.

[ November 20, 2003, 05:11: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Mephisto]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Yes, but do the planets actually get cloaked in 1.85, or does it just look pretty with the button activated?

They get actually cloaked. No trace of them to be seen.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Actually... cloaking facilities do NOT cloak planets now.

According to the first post in this thread they do. You just have to save and reload the game to get it to display the cloak icon. Are you saying you have tested this and Darkangel is incorrect?

Geoschmo