Best satellite design?

[Master Belisarius]

CM: With the Long Range Scanners, you can see the enemy ship design (if the ship have not the Scanner Hamer or the Scatered Armor).
Very useful in simultaneous multiplayer games.

[Lemmy]

me agreeing with dogscoff for a change

LR II scans 3 sectors away, and LR III scans 5 sector away

[Jubala]

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Originally posted by LemmyM:
me agreeing with dogscoff for a change

LR II scans 3 sectors away, and LR III scans 5 sector away

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It lets you see the design of the enemy ship and cargo if it has any.

[CW]

Missile Ships don't need a combat sensor right?

CW

[rdouglass]

In early game, my sats have PPB's exclusively. In later games, I mix PPB's with WMG's and a few dedicated shield sat's. (I don't know why, but if I throw in 1 Large sat with all shields / armor per 10 Weapons sats, my Groups Last a h@!! of a lot longer.) Sometimes I'll throw in a few Null Space but their range is only 5. I seem to have much better success even with PPB's range 6. It doesn't sound like a lot, but that extra 1 space seems to be very important most times.

I use sats almost exclusively at Warp Points. (Against the AI) I don't use mines or missles 'cause the AI still has difficulties with them and AI seems to do a lot better against sat's.

Lemmy, you CAN move sat's... I'll generally move my sat Groups towards the WP's on the outside of my reign. I'll usually keep a few Groups at strategic choke points within the bouderies of my empire. Sure takes care of any ships I miss or any that get hit by the spacial anomoly and end up behind lines.

[rdouglass]

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Originally posted by CW:
Missile Ships don't need a combat sensor right?

CW

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Nope, but they will need Multiplex Tracking to target more than 1 ship....

[Suicide Junkie]

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Missile Ships don't need a combat sensor right?

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Missiles have an inherent accuracy of 100% if they survive.

The only reasons why you would put a sensor on a missile ship are:
a) You want more accuracy on your PDCs
b) You have some beam weapons too.
c) You have space and money to burn

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Lemmy, you CAN move sat's

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You do have to carry them in a ship (with sat bays) though.