Sensors

[Spyder]

Are the various sensors complementary? Or, do the better ones make the older ones obsolete?

[jimbob55]

For combat sensors, only one component will give a bouns to hit in combat.

For multiplex tracking, I don't know if they are additive but you are paying in metals for each target you can track + hullspace for each component you mount. Best to mount the highest level available and only mount 1.

For long range scanners, they aren't additive for the range, so 1 at highest level is best.

For the sensor grids (tachyon, graviton, psionic etc) I don't think they're additive. You will only be able to see stealthy units with lower cloak values than your best scanner. Again mount the highest rating that you can.

Tachyon sensor 3 costs 2500 metals and 1100 radioactives and gives level 4 EM active.
All the rest at level 3 cost 1500 and 500 respectively and gives level 4 scanning ability. Bearing in mind that all cloaking has equal values for all scanner types at the moment, any scanner will do the job. Pick the one that is on the branch of the tech tree you are closest to.

[Triumvir Emphy]

"Or, do the better ones make the older ones obsolete?"

i am assuming you aren't talking about the same sensor going up the tech tree.

[Spyder]

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Originally posted by jimbob55:


For the sensor grids (tachyon, graviton, psionic etc) I don't think they're additive. You will only be able to see stealthy units with lower cloak values than your best scanner. Again mount the highest rating that you can.

Tachyon sensor 3 costs 2500 metals and 1100 radioactives and gives level 4 EM active.
All the rest at level 3 cost 1500 and 500 respectively and gives level 4 scanning ability. Bearing in mind that all cloaking has equal values for all scanner types at the moment, any scanner will do the job. Pick the one that is on the branch of the tech tree you are closest to.

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These are of which I am speaking. Should I put one of each on my ship, or, do I only need one (the best one)?

I'm not sure I understand your second paragraph here...could you expound for my simple mind?

Thanks Everyone

[raynor]

It sounds like he has done a cost analysis of the resources required to construct each sensor and is telling you which one is more expensive than the rest?

[lnielsen]

You need to have sensors in each system you are concerned with. One of the best ways to do this is to deploy a single "sensor bouy" in each system. You might want to have a combination of sensors (gravity, optic, ...) to cover a wider range but use only the highest level of each. The emeny ship might have good gravity cloaking but poor optical any you will still see him.
One sensor bouy in the system will let all your forces see him.