Bug report - Satellites

Dirk Zelwis · #1 September 14th, 2002, 06:05 PM

Hello!

In my current solo-game I encountered what probably is a minor bug. I'm playing SE4 Gold Version 1.78.

I wanted to relocate some satellites from my home system to the front. As the cargo space on the satellite layer was not big enough, I had to leave some satellites behind. After having moved the ship away, the remaining satellites were still cloaked, though the only satellite with "Stealth-Armor" was on the ship.

That's a bug, isn't it? :-)

Arkcon · #2 September 14th, 2002, 07:10 PM

Yeah, I've seen a couple of similar things.

1). Stealth armor uses no supplys to cloak. If a ship has no supplies, it stays cloaked. If you decloak, you cant recloak without resuppling.

2). If stealth armor on a cloaked ship is destoried, it stays cloaked.

Cloaking still kinda buggy in when it's on or off.

Undertakr · #3 September 14th, 2002, 09:30 PM

Can't you retrofit a cloaked ship? If all this is true, you could essentially build a supply ship lets say with a cloaking device, cloak it, then retrofit the cloaking device off and add more supplies (or whatever) to the design and the ship would remain cloaked.

If this theory, and it's just a theory, is true, that'd be a pretty decent sized bug.

- takr

Arkcon · #4 September 14th, 2002, 09:37 PM

There was some discussion that the stealth armor cloak should be different from the cloaking device cloak. This may be too big a fix for a patch, but maybe its time to revisit it. It often confuses a newbie that they have to turn it on. Maybe it should always be on with some sort of hard code flag for whether its there or not instead of turning it on and off.

Gandalph · #5 September 14th, 2002, 10:03 PM

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Originally posted by Undertakr:
Can't you retrofit a cloaked ship? If all this is true, you could essentially build a supply ship lets say with a cloaking device, cloak it, then retrofit the cloaking device off and add more supplies (or whatever) to the design and the ship would remain cloaked.

If this theory, and it's just a theory, is true, that'd be a pretty decent sized bug.

- takr

You cannot retrofit a cloaked ship, it does not show up in the retro window.

Spoo · #6 September 15th, 2002, 07:09 AM

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There was some discussion that the stealth armor cloak should be different from the cloaking device cloak. This may be too big a fix for a patch, but maybe its time to revisit it. It often confuses a newbie that they have to turn it on. Maybe it should always be on with some sort of hard code flag for whether its there or not instead of turning it on and off.

But sometimes it's bad to be cloaked. Like when you want the cloaked ship to attack and you don't have any other uncloaked ships in the sector.