Question about Stealth Armor

Maerlyn · #1 October 21st, 2003, 01:04 AM

Hi guys, I am a Space empires newbie and am just enjoing my first PBW game, and its GREAT

but besides that I am still encountering some troubles.

so here it goes: as far as the manual says the stealth armor should prevent me from seeing an enemyship equiped with it, because all my ships (I dont got any sensor except for combat sensors at the moment) can only do active EM scans lvl 1.
is this true?
and if this is true, why to hell can I still see his stealth armor ships?
I am not using any longrange scanners nor have a got any patnerships.

thanx for answering this
have fun
maerlyn

Atrocities · #2 October 21st, 2003, 01:09 AM

Grettings and welcome to the game and forum.

Do you have a partnership with another race? If so they might have a partnership with him and their for you normally would be able to see his ships.

I think that in some game, but I could be wrong, it is possible to see enemy ships at even the lower level treaties.

Rollo · #3 October 21st, 2003, 01:15 AM

hmm, perhaps your opponent forget to turn the cloak ON

geoschmo · #4 October 21st, 2003, 01:24 AM

Just to confirm, you have no partnerships with any other players in the game?

Is this game using a mod?

Is he forgetting to activate his stealth armor and cloak his ships? You would know this from how they show up on screen. If they are actually cloaked but you are still seeing them they will have a dashed circle around them. If there is no circle, then he hasn't actually cloaked his ships.

primitive · #5 October 21st, 2003, 01:33 AM

Welcome to the forums and PBW, always good with some fresh meat

If the ship is cloaked (cloaking on), you will see a dashed circle around it. Many players, myself included, often add the stealth armor to the designs for the combat bonuses and not for the stealth ability.

Beware though; Even if your opponent have left that one ship uncloaked, there can still be a cloaked fleet hiding under the ship you can see. If you attack, all ships in the sector will engage, cloaked or uncloaked.

Also remember; Cloaked ships don�t sweep mines. The best way to insure that someone don�t sneak a cloaked fleet behind your defences is to drop a few mines at all warppoits.

deccan · #6 October 21st, 2003, 01:45 AM

Hehe, newbie or not, Maerlyn is the leading player in that particular game. I sure glad he's on my side, at least for now.