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Old July 14th, 2002, 04:09 PM
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Hmmm, no ships at all partners or not were in the system, and I'm positive it was mines and not satillites.
No offense Ragnarok, but how are you so sure that none of your partners did not have a cloaked ship in the system? Keep in mind if they did have a cloaked ship in the system, you would NOT have seen their ship, only what their ship saw. Unless they had TWO ships in the system. But if they only had one ship in the system and it was cloaked, you would have seen only what it saw, and not the ship itself.

As Arkon says, if it was a parnter chain thing, you would have seen all your eneimies ships and planets everywhere, not just in the system where you thought the mines were spying for you.

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Old July 14th, 2002, 04:45 PM
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Ok thanks, that's what I thought. But I wasn't sure cause they worked as a 'viewer' in my Last game so that threw me off.
I once dropped one mine just to monitor a system I abandoned -- and noticed that they definitely don't work as "presence". I was ambivalent about the result -- but the Baron is right, the 100 % undetectable spy is unfair. It's supposed to be a weapon after all.

I abandoned the system because I was fighting the Rage for it and the sun was about to go nova. I really wished I could have seen their dozens of PPB armed BB go *poof*. Shame their leadership didn't listen to their scientists like I did. Heh Heh.

At least I knew when it actually happened and could deploy the cruiser hull remote miners (is that the smallest size where it's profitable, I can't recall).

My people were so cold, so hungry. Forced to abandon their even the meager homes they had scratched out in a harsh system, surrounded by enemies. *Snif* Why doesn't anyone like us? Can't we all just get along?
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Old July 14th, 2002, 08:15 PM
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No offense Ragnarok, but how are you so sure that none of your partners did not have a cloaked ship in the system? Keep in mind if they did have a cloaked ship in the system, you would NOT have seen their ship, only what their ship saw. Unless they had TWO ships in the system. But if they only had one ship in the system and it was cloaked, you would have seen only what it saw, and not the ship itself.

As Arkon says, if it was a parnter chain thing, you would have seen all your eneimies ships and planets everywhere, not just in the system where you thought the mines were spying for you.

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No offense taken Geoschmo. I'm not fighting the fact that it's possible for this to be the case. I'm just saying I'm pretty sure there was no partner ships in there. Your theory as to why this was the case brings another question to mind... I thought that you could see your partners cloaked ships if you're partners with them? I'm going off memory for this one but I was sure that I saw my partners cloaked ships in a system where I didn't have any cloak scanners. I'm probably mistaken here as well. Which is fine if I am, I'm more thenwilling to accept that I'm wrong. Just curious.
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Rag: you can see what your partners cloaked ships can see, but not the ship its self. if your partner has two cloaked ships that can see each other, then you can see them both. if not, then you can see the system but not your partners single ship.

like Geo said. this is also why you cant see partners ships when they go into a red nebulae.
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