Disappearing Ship Question

[primitive]

Maybe there already was a cloacked ship/fleet over the planet.

Probably a big fleet, a very big fleet

[Slynky]

Originally posted by primitive:
Maybe there already was a cloacked ship/fleet over the planet.

Probably a big fleet, a very big fleet

Very funny

But we know "fleets" don't cloak nor does a ship arriving at a fleet that is composed of ships that are completely cloaked, cloaks.

If it's some trick I don't know, I'd like to find out how it's done. If it's a game flaw, I'd like to report it.

[Suicide Junkie]

Perhaps it was the teleportation event.

[Slynky]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Perhaps it was the teleportation event.

LOL...nice try (thanks anyway). It happened on 2 different planets (with the same ship class) and the game has no events.

[Suicide Junkie]

I think the cloak & move is a good guess at what happened then...
The cloak just didn't kick in replay-wise until the end of the turn.

[Grandpa Kim]

Slynky, I had a similar occurence in Networks I.

I lost a whole planet! The moon remained, but the planet was there one turn and gone the next. No explanation, no warning, no nothing. It never did reappear and I was left with a lonely moon properly named IX A, but no planet IX to go with it. I had owned the pair for at least 100 turns when this happened and was doing nothing out of the ordinary, just building ships and units.

I think these incidents are related but are so rare, Aaron would likely never figure it out.

[Roanon]

I have seen something similar, a large number of ships disappearing in a fleet AFTER it had moved. Replay log, they were there, end of replay, vanished.
What had happend is that these ships have been cloaked by the player on that turn, being retrofitted to cloakable the turn before. It seems that though cloaking happens immediately when giving orders, in reality it happens (sometimes? always?) after moving.