Planets in storms?.

Randallw · #1 February 17th, 2004, 01:22 PM

ok here is my question. It seems storms pop up more in my games these days. In one game 1/3 of the systems i find are system storms, 1/3 have individual storms in pretty much every sector, and incidentally almost the other 1/3 are asteroid belts. What i wish to know is, those storms that are opague, can they cover up planets?. It would be good to find that planets, which are sadly lacking, are hiding in storms. If they don't appear naturally can i hide a planet in an opaque storm?.

[ February 17, 2004, 11:23: Message edited by: Randallw ]

dogscoff · #2 February 17th, 2004, 03:08 PM

yes, you can hide planets in storms.

It would be cool if putting a storm on a planet's sector affected the conditions of that planet...

Cheeze · #3 February 17th, 2004, 04:00 PM

Things may have changed, but I remember putting storms up over planets in a pre-Gold game. An opaque storm (one that needs sensors to see through) will cloak a planet, however, regardless of how strong the storm is, it will only hide the planet if others have no sensors at all.

EDIT NOTE: I was talking about storms created by players.

[ February 17, 2004, 16:14: Message edited by: Cheeze ]

Fyron · #4 February 17th, 2004, 05:30 PM

You have to set the storm as the "moon" of the planet, or the planet as the "moon" of the storm, to get a storm to be in the same sector of a planet. Or, you have to have so many objects in the same ring that they can not all go into their own sectors, so some will overlap. But in the stock game, there should never be storms and planets in the same sector.

Asmala · #5 February 17th, 2004, 05:37 PM

Storms can cover up a planet but its name is still visible. So an enemy can't attack the planet but it knows it's there.

Ruatha · #6 February 17th, 2004, 05:55 PM

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Originally posted by Asmala:
Storms can cover up a planet but its name is still visible. So an enemy can't attack the planet but it knows it's there.

Unless you change the planet name to "".

Fyron · #7 February 17th, 2004, 06:24 PM

The storm gets named as a moon of the planet. So it would be Cephedri III A, for example.

The next patch should clear up the issues with cloaked planets, it seems.

Asmala · #8 February 17th, 2004, 06:30 PM

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Originally posted by Ruatha:

quote:
Originally posted by Asmala:
Storms can cover up a planet but its name is still visible. So an enemy can't attack the planet but it knows it's there.

Unless you change the planet name to "".

I've never thought that.

However, IIRC the upcoming patch fixes this so you don't have to rename the planet.

Rollo · #9 February 17th, 2004, 07:53 PM

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Originally posted by Asmala:
...However, IIRC the upcoming patch fixes this so you don't have to rename the planet.

yep, no more cheesy player cheats to find the hidden monster planets. Muwhahahaha!

*in his dark palace the Evil Overlord rubs his hands in glee: "Excellent!"

[ February 17, 2004, 17:54: Message edited by: Rollo ]

Paul1980au · #10 February 18th, 2004, 12:01 AM

Interesting - never thought of that but its probably a bug that needs fixing.