Scanners and Cloaking questions

[dogscoff]

Scanners let you see things several sectors (squares) away, not systems. When an enemy ship flies past one of your scanner sats you will be able to click on it and get al the juicy details.

Cloaking is defeated with sensors. There are many different types of sensors: I think you have one on the Physics tech tree, one on psychic, one on temporal, and at least one other. Although they have different costs/ research costs etc I think they all work the same in a standard game.

You can also counter cloaking with mines or by buying data from other human players and there are probably certain intel projects which would help. Sensors are better though.

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"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"I think so Brain but, if you replace the P with an O, my name would be Oinky, wouldn't it?"

[capnq]

There are five sensor types: hyper optic, psychic, temporal, gravitic, and tachyon.

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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, "The Call of Cthulhu"

[JenMax]

A related question: GAs clouds and nebulae systems are color coded. I read somewhere that each color "shrouds" anything in it with a defined level of cloaking. (I'm not a "code" person..) What are the levels of cloaking provided by being in each of the nebulae systems? Appreciate help with this.

[dogscoff]

Red= lvel 5
green=level 4
brown = level 1
can't remember how the other 2 go.

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"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"I think so Brain but, if you replace the P with an O, my name would be Oinky, wouldn't it?"

[PsychoTechFreak]

quote:

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
Red= lvel 5
green=level 4
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Every other color should be level 3.

There are several threads about sensor types, which might help, e.g.:
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/For...ML/002391.html



[This message has been edited by PsychoTechFreak (edited 22 June 2001).]