Cloak and Sensor levels - can they be increased?

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

IIRC ALL anticloakscanners (Wow, that's one for Scrabble) cost the same. Yes, you can increase cloak/sensor levels manually.

What you could also do;

As the level of advancement of cloaking devices progresses, gradually increase the cost/size, and eventually split off cloaks for certain sensor types. In the end, you MIGHT be able to have unbreakable cloaking devices, BUT - there are separate devices for each type of scan, they are monstrously huge and prohibitively expensive. Also, Scanners should increase in size/cost as they advance, but their increases should be more steep to reflect the fact that cloaking technology advances in leaps. Also, IMO, stock scanners are WAY too powerful - one hi-lev scanner sat in a system is enough to render the use of cloaks completely useless, but if you make the higher-level scanners even more monstrously huge than the same level of cloak, and even more prohibitively expensive, then cloaks might be useful into the late game, as you won't be able to deploy cloak penetrators and keep any economy at all going on at the same time. Especially if you have a vast Empire, placing cloaksing scanners in every system could cripple or even kill your economy.

[Riesig_Bar]

I guess this sort of answered a question I was going to post. But to be really sure I will ask it.

I was going to ask if Tachyon Sensors III could detect cloaking III. Since I am resaerching TSII I don't know what it does yet or the next level TSIII. If not how do I find enemy ships that have cloaking III?

Hope this not hijacking thread. If it is it is unintensional.

[Fyron]

Tachyon Sensor III will detect Cloaking Device III. However, it is far more expensive to research than Hyper Optics III, which does the same job. It is under Advanced Military Science 6, which is much cheaper to get than Sensors 6 (base cost 5000 instead of 50000 and you need AMS 3 to get level 3 training facilities anyways).

[Riesig_Bar]

Imperator Fyron said:
Tachyon Sensor III will detect Cloaking Device III. However, it is far more expensive to research than Hyper Optics III, which does the same job. It is under Advanced Military Science 6, which is much cheaper to get than Sensors 6 (base cost 5000 instead of 50000 and you need AMS 3 to get level 3 training facilities anyways).

I never heard of this Hyper optics. I haven't tried the ship training past 1. So I will check that option too. Thanks.