Planetary Cloaking Device - Page 2

Kamog · #11 November 20th, 2003, 07:04 AM

Cloaking planets actually works? That's great!

So if an enemy ship is in the same sector as your planet and the ship doesn't have the sensors to see the planet, will the planet be blockaded? If not, then can you unblockade a planet by cloaking it?

Fyron · #12 November 20th, 2003, 07:04 AM

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Yes, but do the planets actually get cloaked in 1.85, or does it just look pretty with the button activated?

If a planet recognises the cloaking ability, it must be possible to cloak a planet. And it was apparently supposed to be working before. Try setting up a planet with a cloak facility and using the hot key for cloaking on/off in a 1.84 game. It might work.

Actually... cloaking facilities do NOT cloak planets now.

narf poit chez BOOM · #13 November 20th, 2003, 07:04 AM

"well, sir, we should be on the planet."

"you sure?"

"well, this is where the charts say it is. plus, we've got gravity."

"this ships got artificial gravity that you can't turn off."

"well, i'm pretty sure we're sitting on something."

"well, then, you go first."

"rank before bueaty. i insist."

and there we leave our hapless insubordinate and noncomander, no doubt to stay in their current location for quite a while.

[ November 20, 2003, 05:11: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

Mephisto · #14 November 20th, 2003, 10:31 AM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Yes, but do the planets actually get cloaked in 1.85, or does it just look pretty with the button activated?

They get actually cloaked. No trace of them to be seen.

Fyron · #15 November 20th, 2003, 06:04 PM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Actually... cloaking facilities do NOT cloak planets now.

According to the first post in this thread they do. You just have to save and reload the game to get it to display the cloak icon. Are you saying you have tested this and Darkangel is incorrect?

Geoschmo

No they do not. They appear to be cloaked, but if you actually test it out, they are still visible. This is with a cloaking facility, not using the sector-sight obscuration ability on a base/ship. Combat Wombat tested this, and Darkangel is incorrect.

Fyron · #16 November 20th, 2003, 06:06 PM

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Originally posted by Mephisto:

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Yes, but do the planets actually get cloaked in 1.85, or does it just look pretty with the button activated?

They get actually cloaked. No trace of them to be seen.

And this is with a planet with cloaking abilities on a facility? You have tested it with a second human player to verify that it is really invisible?

Mephisto · #17 November 20th, 2003, 11:34 PM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
And this is with a planet with cloaking abilities on a facility? You have tested it with a second human player to verify that it is really invisible?

Indeed. A facility with the settings from this very thread will activate the cloak button and it will hide the planet from view to another human player. I tested it before my Last post actually to be sure. Oh, and the name of the planet is also hidden (so you don't have an empty sector with "Centauri Prime" directly under it

). An enemy ship in the same sector as the cloaked planet will, without sensors, not engage in combat either. Remember, this is with the latest beta.

Fyron · #18 November 20th, 2003, 11:39 PM

Yay! It certainly doesn't work like that in the latest non-Beta.

geoschmo · #19 November 21st, 2003, 02:21 AM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Actually... cloaking facilities do NOT cloak planets now.

According to the first post in this thread they do. You just have to save and reload the game to get it to display the cloak icon. Are you saying you have tested this and Darkangel is incorrect?

Geoschmo

Omnicron1 · #20 November 24th, 2003, 09:34 PM

the latest bet of what is there a Version 1.85 out there that i dont know about???

im confused and scared and in a dark place...did someone cloak my planet?

which brings to mind what if your walking on the planet... is it an atmosphere level cloak so that anyone inside the atmosphere is still visible and if so wouldnt a close flight reveal the truth?