Cloaking and nebulae

[Suicide Junkie]

That's new to me, too.
You may want to email MM with that.

[Nitram Draw]

I think it on the level of sight obscuration of the nebulae. Some obscure to level 3 and some to level 4.

[Suicide Junkie]

I thought that natural storms were all level 1.

[Nitram Draw]

Maybe storms are but in the Systems Type files it lists nebulaes as having different obscuration levels, from 3-5 actually, so some would prevent any sort of sighting.
That is where you should build your Pirate base SJ. No one would ever find you!

[Master Belisarius]

I think that's not a bug.
I think that the nebula was designed to opaque all the scanners, then, if the ships have or not the cloak device, is not important: inside a nebula, all the ships are hidden.

[Q]

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Originally posted by Nitram Draw:
Maybe storms are but in the Systems Type files it lists nebulaes as having different obscuration levels, from 3-5 actually, so some would prevent any sort of sighting.
That is where you should build your Pirate base SJ. No one would ever find you!

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I think you are right. There is one nebula system with sight obscuration level 5, which means that no detectors will work. The description should however then be changed (and I did this now) from "this storm is opaque to most scanners" to "This storm is opaque to all scanners". It really good to know because as you say ships are absolutely safe in this system!

[Suicide Junkie]

All right! It sounds like there's no way to tell how good the nebula is unless you change the description.

Of course, it dosen't really matter once you get to mid-to-end game, since the pirates absolutely must prevent any stellar manip ships from entering the system & ruining the whole thing in that case, there wouldn't ever be any ships going through to use sensors on you.