How do I detect stealth armor?

[disabled]

pthh! screw sensors. I use mines. It solves the threat of enemy ships being undectable for a good amount of time as long as yuo keep rotating and upgrade them mines.

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[Dracus]

maybe a cloak that also sweeps mines. That way cloaked ships can pass through mine fields undetected. Then scanning Sats would be useful.

Don't know if this will work, can't test it until I get home. I am just using Cloaking Device I to play with these idea's, If they work then a couple of changes to the tech tree and these could be added.(just a thought)

Name := Cloaking Device I
Description := Field generated around a starship which passes all energy around the ship. This field has the effect
of rendering the ship invisible.
Pic Num := 38
Tonnage Space Taken := 40
Tonnage Structure := 40
Cost Minerals := 1000
Cost Organics := 0
Cost Radioactives := 500
Vehicle Type := Ship\Base\Sat
Supply Amount Used := 100
Restrictions := None
General Group := Shields
Family := 26
Roman Numeral := 1
Custom Group := 0
Number of Tech Req := 2
Tech Area Req 1 := Cloaking
Tech Level Req 1 := 1
Tech Area Req 2 := Mines
Tech Level Req 2 := 1
Number of Abilities := 6
Ability 1 Type := Cloak Level
Ability 1 Descr := Prevents level 1 Active EM scans.
Ability 1 Val 1 := EM Active
Ability 1 Val 2 := 2
Ability 2 Type := Cloak Level
Ability 2 Descr := Prevents level 1 Passive EM scans.
Ability 2 Val 1 := EM Passive
Ability 2 Val 2 := 2
Ability 3 Type := Cloak Level
Ability 3 Descr := Prevents level 1 Psychic scans.
Ability 3 Val 1 := Psychic
Ability 3 Val 2 := 2
Ability 4 Type := Cloak Level
Ability 4 Descr := Prevents level 1 Gravitic scans.
Ability 4 Val 1 := Gravitic
Ability 4 Val 2 := 2
Ability 5 Type := Cloak Level
Ability 5 Descr := Prevents level 1 Temporal scans.
Ability 5 Val 1 := Temporal
Ability 5 Val 2 := 2
Ability 6 Type := Mine Sweeping
Ability 6 Descr := Can sweep 5 mine per use.
Ability 6 Val 1 := 5
Ability 6 Val 2 := 0
Weapon Type := None

A cloak that sweeps 5 mines.

(man I just went crazy. Ideas for new tech are hittting me like bricks. Armor that can absorb fire and then direct it back at you. Tons of hidden weopons. Maybe time to create a new mod, hmm, wonder if these will really work.)

[This message has been edited by Dracus (edited 06 May 2001).]

[This message has been edited by Dracus (edited 06 May 2001).]

[capnq]

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maybe a cloak that also sweeps mines. That way cloaked ships can pass through mine fields undetected.

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You'd still get a log message that the mines were swept, but you wouldn't be able to see where the ships went afterwards.

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Cap'n Q

[DirectorTsaarx]

We should lobby for MM to add a special tech that requires, say, Cloaking 3 and Mines 5 (or maybe expand tech to Cloaking 4 & Mines 6) to get a cloaking device designed to sneak through mine fields. For play balance, either make it really large so it seriously affects battle power, or make restrictions work & only allow it on small hulls (at which point the AI would have to figure out how to use it, of course...)

[Dracus]

I never get any Messages that my mine fields were sweeped. I only get the log message that I sweep the enemy minefield.

[capnq]

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I never get any Messages that my mine fields were sweeped. I only get the log message that I sweep the enemy minefield.

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I've been getting regular Event log Messages in one of my current games something along the lines "Minefield at System sector (x,y) triggered. Xi-Chung have lost 1 ship. 4 mines were swept."

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft

[Dracus]

I think you only get the log message if they lose a ship or the field is triggered. I just lost 80 mines to a fleet of sweepers And got no message. The only reason I knew they were there was the little triangle showed enemyships in my border.Sent in a fleet and and took out 6 mine sweepers. But now I have no mine field.