Surviving the "Stealthy Stage"

[golf_prez]

I went to SEIV and created a new game and created a couple of ships with ONE Stealth Armout Lv1.
I moved them into an enemy system and then took control of the enemy to see if I could "see" the ships...

I could!! I am not sure how you contruct a ship to be "cloaked" with armour... do you need a certain number?? certain lvl of armour??

Any comments please? Thanks!

[Aub]

You need to "Cloak" this ship just as you'd cloak a ship with a cloaking device. There are two buttons on the main toolbar, "Cloak" and "Decloak". Cloaked ships appear with a dotted circle around them.

I would assume that with the stealth armor claoking means stopping translating your identification signals, cutting engine emissions etc.

[capnq]

I suspect that having to "turn on" cloaking armor is due to game mechanics. If cloaking armor was always "on", you'd never be able to retrofit those ships, because cloaked ships don't show on the Retrofit/Scrap list.

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[Hotfoot]

I was entirely unaware of needing to cloak ships with stealth armor. Most interesting, but then I'm still learning the finer points of the tech tree. I got cloaking devices long before I got upgraded armor. I would imagine that a ship with both stealth armor and a cloaking device would use the higher of the two stealth values...but imagine if it could be modded such so that using both together created a state of cloak between the current maximum for ships and the natural level of minefields.

Of course, you'd have to modify sensors to cope, but that's always the case, isn't it?

I should find out how that techmod is coming along. That and the latest patch should keep me busy for about a year or so.

-Hotfoot
"Okay, so I'm epic scale..."

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[golf_prez]

quote:

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Originally posted by Aub:
You need to "Cloak" this ship just as you'd cloak a ship with a cloaking device. There are two buttons on the main toolbar, "Cloak" and "Decloak". Cloaked ships appear with a dotted circle around them.

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ahhh!!!! I never even thought about using that button (duhh!) thanks!

[Baron Munchausen]

Heh...

This was a problem for me at the very start of beta testing. I didn't know you had to 'activate' the stealth armor either.

Now if there could just be some switch for active EM sensors and they could be made mutually exclusive with cloaking...