Ruatha you are mistaken. If you try it you will find that satelites with cloaking, either stealth armor or cloaking devices, will be cloaked immedietly upon launch, and cannot be decloaked. This is a persistant bug. Has been around for a long time. (EDIT: However, you may simply have never noticed before because the sats don't get a dotted line "I'm cloaked" symbol. They look to you like they are not cloaked, but enemy ships cannot see them.)
Also, because of the way unit stacks share abilities, having a single cloaked satellite in a stack will cloak the entire bunch. This is why normally you can't use cloaking sats as warp point defense. The enemy ships will pass right over them without engaging unless they have sensors capable of seeing the sats.
Grandpa, the bug has not been corrected. It's still there with 1.84. It could be a fluke, except that there are no flukes.
He either has a cloaked ship able to see your sats somewhere in the system (Remember, it might not be him, it could be someone he has a partnership with), or there was something in that sector he could see that initiated the combat.
Geoschmo
[ March 15, 2003, 13:07: Message edited by: geoschmo ]
Re: Satellite Cloaking
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