How to detect Cloaked ships?

[Suicide Junkie]

If your sensor level beats the related cloak level of the enemy's cloaking device, then you can see them.

EG. you have temporal sensors 1. You can beat any cloaking device that has "temporal cloak" less than or equal to 1. The other cloaking types have no effect on your sensor.

A sensor will reveal any ships in the entire system, whose cloaking device it can defeat.

For standard SE4:
Sensors available: Temporal, Active, Passive, Psychic, and Gravitic.

Any sensor can see past stealth armor.
A sensor level X, can see any ships with a cloaking device level X or weaker.
Note: I am talking about the "Version" number of the component, not the underlying ability value

Cloaking devices must be activated in order to work, most use supplies every turn while working (only stealth armor uses no supplies). A ship with an active cloak will be shown with a dashed circle around it.
I believe the hotkeys for Cloak/Decloak are "z" and "x", but the buttons are the two with the "ship in a blue circle" icon.

[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 10 September 2001).]