Two small gameplay questions

[Arkcon]

You'll notice, any shipyard with cloaking ability, once you activate the cloak: the construction status icon changes to a repair stasus icon, you can click back and forth 'till you've had enough.

Now your cloaked spaceyard ship could fly through enemy space, into a storm sector with cloaking ability, decloak itself and build anything without being seen. If your opponent doesn't have sensors, that is -- even the standard A.I. builds sensor sats in its own space.

[Gandalf Parker]

Arkcon said:
You'll notice, any shipyard with cloaking ability, once you activate the cloak: the construction status icon changes to a repair stasus icon, you can click back and forth 'till you've had enough.

Now your cloaked spaceyard ship could fly through enemy space, into a storm sector with cloaking ability, decloak itself and build anything without being seen. If your opponent doesn't have sensors, that is -- even the standard A.I. builds sensor sats in its own space.

Hmmmm, as per the other thread, does that mean that a shipyard could build a shell, then cloak to "repair" it to a full build? Also if, either by designs in steps or repair sequence orders, if the new ships cloak was finished first then can it cloak also and both cloaked still "repair" to a full build.

[Suicide Junkie]

Your enemy will be able to see you for the first few turns while you do the building and the initial retrofit, but you'll be safer once the repairs start.

[Arkcon]

Gandalf Parker said:

Hmmmm, as per the other thread, does that mean that a shipyard could build a shell, then cloak to "repair" it to a full build? Also if, either by designs in steps or repair sequence orders, if the new ships cloak was finished first then can it cloak also and both cloaked still "repair" to a full build.

Oh yeah, I've done that. But like SJ says, in multiplayer, you still have 2-3 simutaneous turns when you can be seen uncloaked.

[Ragnarok-X]

Then again im talking about cloaked shipyard BASES, not ships

[Fyron]

Ragnarok-X said:
Then again im talking about cloaked shipyard BASES, not ships

The only difference between a ship and a base is that a base can not move and a base has unlimtied supplies. That is all. Well, and the base can not be put in a fleet if default settings are in place, but that is not really relevant to the discussion at hand...