A few questions from a Newbie

[Mephisto]

Originally posted by Ruatha:

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Originally posted by Maerlyn:

2. is it possible to cloak the sattelites BEFORE I launch them? otherwise they would be visible for at least one turn which I need to cloak them.

If they have stealth armour they will be automaticly cloaked when deployed, altough it doesn't seem like it, the enemy won't see them unless he has sensors.

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Are you sure? I think you have to activate stealth armor, too, so you can see the satellite one turn.

[Alneyan]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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Yes, they allow only a scan of the surrounding sectors. However, keep in mind a sector is 10 light-years in SE:IV, which definitively qualifies as long range in my book.

No... a sector is one square on the system map. It is 1/12th the width of a system. The squares on the galaxy map are not sectors, they are just squares. A sector is nowhere near 10 light years.

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Hmm, what is 10 light years wide then? I read something along these lines in this forum, but it is likely I misundersoot the post. Is that the width of a system? And yes, you are right, as you can see by looking at the distances on the galaxy map.

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by Mephisto:

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Originally posted by Ruatha:
If they have stealth armour they will be automaticly cloaked when deployed, altough it doesn't seem like it, the enemy won't see them unless he has sensors.

Are you sure? I think you have to activate stealth armor, too, so you can see the satellite one turn. [/QB]

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This was a bug noted with stealth armor on sats. Once installed on one sat in the stack, the enitre stack is cloaked - activated or not.

This is seen as a bug because a cloaked sat stack at the warp point no longer attacks when an enemy comes through.

[Maerlyn]

ok, so I was wrong in at least one point: the discussion aint settled yet!

[Taera]

Maerlyn, Welcome to the Shrapnel Games' Space Empires Intel forums. You'll find that a discussion is rarely settled in here

[oleg]

Originally posted by Taera:
... You'll find that a discussion is rarely settled in here

But that is a bad sign. Why have it in the first place if you are seeking answers not futher confusion ?

[oleg]

Originally posted by Arkcon:
... a cloaked sat stack at the warp point no longer attacks when an enemy comes through.

Not at all. It is just french satellites

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Alneyan:
Hmm, what is 10 light years wide then? I read something along these lines in this forum, but it is likely I misundersoot the post. Is that the width of a system? And yes, you are right, as you can see by looking at the distances on the galaxy map.

That would be one massive system! I think our solar system is about a light hour or so across. It is ~8 light minutes from the Earth to the Sun. A system is a tiny portion of the 10 LY x 10 LY square on the galaxy map.

[Maerlyn]

thanx a REAL LOT guys!!! just 24 hours have past and you answered all my questions, had a little discussion about them and settled them. wow, this is great!

so what does this mean? two possibilties:

1. this community is great!
or
2. none of you has got anything to do in his sparetime since seiv.pbw.cc is down and so you hang out on this forum hunting for newbie questions

but nevermind, what ever might be the reason, thanx a lot

[narf poit chez BOOM]

2. none of you has got anything to do in his sparetime since seiv.pbw.cc is down and so you hang out on this forum hunting for newbie questions

of course. that's it.

i like poking fun at all those people with nothing to do but PBW. truthfully, most newbie questions are answered fast.