Stellar Manipulation again..

[Alneyan]

Indeed, nebulas don't hide stellar objects; I got confused with Geo's map where you start with a peculiar ship mining an invisible planet, and somehow thought the planet was hidden because of the nebula.

[Wolfman77]

OK I did some testing last night again, here's what I found.
There are 2 "types" of nebula.

1. The usual type, described as "system wide storm", these are the ones you can destroy with a ND. there are 5 types(I think this was covered somewhere before). the red ones have a "maximum" obscuration of 5. I belive this means they can have anything up to that. The other four colors have 2 maxed at 3 and 2 maxed at 4. You cannot creat stars here untill you destroy it.

2. There are also some that are actually described as nebula, there are 4 types I believe. They are different from the five standard one everyone is used to. I think they are used only in the "ancient" quadrant type. You cannot detroy them but you can create stars in them. They have a max obscuration of 3 and cut shields by 5000(it says renders shield useless, but the systems text file says 5000). They are also much more colorful that the other kind.

I'll have to check it out to see if any of them hide stars or rings/spheres. I know they hide planets, don't hide warp points (you'd never find your way out, reminds me of a map I made once Only bad part about it is the AI couldn't handle all reaserch being done by finding ruins). Anyway I'll check it out tonight unless someone else wants to confirm it before then.

[Xrati]

That would explain why Renegade 13 and myself remember creating stars in a Nebula. I don't recall if I used the Ancient setting on the galaxy.

[Wolfman77]

I'll have to check the quadrant text when I get home to see if they show up in any others. I uce clusters usually and I don't recall them in that one but I have seen them in ancient, not sure about the rest yet.