Big Storms

dumbluck · #1 October 31st, 2002, 01:16 PM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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Originally posted by desdinova:
it may be more expensive to create a storm creating ship, but then you dont have to give all ships the cloaking ability to hide them. also do space yard build while cloaked?

A cloaked SY does not have a build queue (on a ship or base).

An ACTIVELY cloaked SY does not have a build queue. One in a cloaking storm/nebula, however, is another story.

Fyron · #2 October 31st, 2002, 11:46 PM

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Originally posted by dumbluck:

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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Originally posted by desdinova:
it may be more expensive to create a storm creating ship, but then you dont have to give all ships the cloaking ability to hide them. also do space yard build while cloaked?

A cloaked SY does not have a build queue (on a ship or base).
An ACTIVELY cloaked SY does not have a build queue. One in a cloaking storm/nebula, however, is another story.

Such a SY is most certainly not cloaked. It is obscured. Were it cloaked, it would have the green dotted circle around it, and it would have the Decloak button active.

Desdinova · #3 November 1st, 2002, 03:06 AM

sorry guys, i need to brush up on my linguistic skills. what i meant by "does a cloaked spaceyard create things?" is that you can build items in the ion storm but not while cloaked. thus in this aspect using storms is better, and again you can save space on ships by not have to add cloaking devices.

[ November 01, 2002, 01:14: Message edited by: desdinova ]

Desdinova · #4 November 1st, 2002, 03:10 AM

speaking of cloaks, how can you create a cloaking device for something you have no knowledge of. example, temporal scans, if you lack temporal knowledge how would you know how block it. same thing with psychic.

edit: i guess if it is a full spectrum cloak you could block scans you dont know. but i think they should be 1-2 levels below the others. a level 3 cloak would stop level 1 or 2 temporal or psychic scans if you dont have the racial traits.

[ November 01, 2002, 01:13: Message edited by: desdinova ]

Fyron · #5 November 1st, 2002, 03:42 AM

That is what mods are for, making the game how you want it to be.

Desdinova · #6 November 1st, 2002, 03:54 AM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
That is what mods are for, making the game how you want it to be.

true, i have been reading several of the mods already made and will soon play them to see how they work. then i will begin experimenting on my own. i really like how easy it appears to mod this, but looks like the individual races will be the hardest part.