effectiveness of cloaking

Taera · #1 May 28th, 2003, 01:01 AM

ive been thinking (what a wonder! lol), is cloaking technology is useful? what i mean, does it worth to rush for it in the first like 70 turns of the game?

in one of my games, im generating enough research to reach the tech in .3 years... should i go for it? is it any good as such?

Baron Grazic · #2 May 28th, 2003, 01:27 AM

It all depends on your opponents.
If they only research Advanced Military 4 (or other Sensor tech), for the Ship Training and to stop the Stealth Armor - then YES.

Phoenix-D · #3 May 28th, 2003, 01:30 AM

If on the other hand they do like me: Advanced Military 6, Sats 3 then sensor sats in every system..cloak is pretty much worthless.

EDIT: also, mines make cloaking difficult, since cloaked sweepers can't sweep! Basiclly if your opponent isn't using mines or doesn't have sensors, cloaking is useful. If he is, its not.

[ May 28, 2003, 00:31: Message edited by: Phoenix-D ]

oleg · #4 May 28th, 2003, 01:55 AM

You can get Stealth Armor VERY fast. Importantly, it is just a byproduct of usefull ship improvement. Unless your oppenent is Temporal/Psychic, he would had to invest much more research points into otherwise (kind of) useless research projects.

But after that... high level cloacking is indeed very expensive.

Fyron · #5 May 28th, 2003, 02:19 AM

Actually, Advanced Military Science is a very, very useful technology. Training your ships is vital. AMS is also very cheap. Researching it past 3 to level 6 to get Hyper Optics 3 is not very expensive at all.

Cloaking devices are almost never worth the investment.

Karibu · #6 May 28th, 2003, 08:46 PM

I have been wondering following thing: Mines claim to stop level 5 active, passive, gravitic, temporal (was there one more?) scan. Is there any way to find out where the enemy minefield is besid ramming it (in PBW where intelligence is disabled)? I think not, but if someone knows a way, let me know...