Combining cloaking with stealth armor

Taera · #1 June 19th, 2002, 08:58 PM

I know the answer to the first one - no. Cloaking uses the highest aviable. If in any case this is destroyed it will use the second best etc.

Second answer: yes, any ship can be hidden using Cloaking, Stealth Armor or whatever you can mod.

Third question is interesting. anyone had tried? Last time i used fleet cloaking was when all the fleet had Stealth Armor so i dont know.

Suicide Junkie · #2 June 19th, 2002, 09:36 PM

You can have one ship cloak another ship if you use the "sector - cloak" ability.
However, this has the side effect of always being "on", and it cloaks planets and enemies as well.

Taz-in-Space · #3 June 20th, 2002, 06:49 PM

BTW - the sector cloak ability must work differently between Human & AI. I designed a map that had cloaked ringworlds. My intention was to provent use until players had the required scanning tech. Well, the AI's still sent ships to colonize these worlds. (Of course, the colonization failed due to the cloak) This tells me that the AI's CAN see a cloaked planet.

rdouglass · #4 June 20th, 2002, 06:57 PM

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Originally posted by Marvin Kosh:
Note, you can also stack stealth armour with scattering armour and the defensive bonuses will stack up Add ECM III, mwahahaa. But 90 kt in total, pretty heavy, you can get a couple of shield generators for that much.

It may be slightly OT, but IMO the defensive bonus(es) are definitely worth the weight (unless you're up against a religious race).

Suicide Junkie · #5 June 20th, 2002, 08:19 PM

Yeah, if you use ministers, the will indicate what type of world it is by which colony ship they send

The planet still cannot be attacked or colonized until a sufficient scanner is brought in.

Spoo · #6 June 20th, 2002, 08:35 PM

Can a cloaked planet be destroyed by planet destroyers? How about remote mined? I imagine star killers still take them out.

[ June 20, 2002, 19:35: Message edited by: Spoo ]

Rollo · #7 June 20th, 2002, 09:05 PM

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Originally posted by Spoo:
Can a cloaked planet be destroyed by planet destroyers? How about remote mined? I imagine star killers still take them out.

A cloaked planet cannot be destroyed with planet destroyers. I checked this when making the space monsters. Not sure about remote mining. And yes, star killers do destroy cloaked planets.

Rollo