Q - Cloaking and Scanner Jammers.

[TerranC]

Originally posted by Echo Mirage:
Is cloaking a powerful enough technology that it can stand alone? Or should I support my cloaked ships with scanner jammers as I have been doing?

The Scanner jammer in SE4 isn't really a scanner jammer; it only jams the Long Range Scanner component. It is does not make your ship impervious to sensors which can detect cloak.

And Cloaking is powerful enough for it to stand alone. But don't think that a cloaked ship can go everywhere; Mines can hit cloaked ships, and by the time you have cloaking generators, others have scanners which can beat that cloak.

It's better to have Scattering armor, which works like a scanner jammer, but with armor capability and 15% ship defense bonus (at it's highest level), and Stealth Armor, which provides level 1 cloak, armor, and 15% ship defense bonus (at it's highest level).