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September 15th, 2003, 03:06 PM
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Can I scan an enemy planet?
If I research scanners high enough, will there be some tech that lets me scan an enemy planet to see what facilities, cargo, etc it has? Is there any tech that will allow this?
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September 15th, 2003, 03:27 PM
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Re: Can I scan an enemy planet?
No.  The only way I am aware of is to sent ship/drone/fighter on a suicide mision before commiting my fleets.
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September 15th, 2003, 07:59 PM
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Re: Can I scan an enemy planet?
It is apparently too diffiuclt for ships to scan massive continent-sized facilities and ground fores on a planet in the SE universe. Hopefully this oversight will be fixed in SE5...
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September 15th, 2003, 11:04 PM
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Re: Can I scan an enemy planet?
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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
It is apparently too diffiuclt for ships to scan massive continent-sized facilities and ground fores on a planet in the SE universe. Hopefully this oversight will be fixed in SE5...
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USA had dozens of the most sophisticated spy satellites over Irag for years and still could not get a grain of truth.
There should be no surprise you can not scan alien planets 
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September 16th, 2003, 01:44 AM
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Re: Can I scan an enemy planet?
There is an intel project that tells you what's on a planet... I think it's called "Covert Recon".
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September 16th, 2003, 08:27 AM
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Re: Can I scan an enemy planet?
Those sensors on Star Trek can do all sorts of amazing things like pinpoint one Vulcan from an entire planet of humans, locate a small piece of platinum on a continent, and so on. It should be easy to scan for something as big as a facility.
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September 16th, 2003, 04:32 PM
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Re: Can I scan an enemy planet?
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Those sensors on Star Trek can do all sorts of amazing things like pinpoint one Vulcan from an entire planet of humans, locate a small piece of platinum on a continent, and so on. It should be easy to scan for something as big as a facility.
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But even smallest "ionic storm" makes them useless
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September 16th, 2003, 07:05 PM
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Re: Can I scan an enemy planet?
and it's kinda strange that they do, since they do have cloaked scanning ability.
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September 16th, 2003, 07:24 PM
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Re: Can I scan an enemy planet?
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No. The only way I am aware of is to sent ship/drone/fighter on a suicide mision before commiting my fleets.
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This only works in human-controlled tactical combat, right?
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September 16th, 2003, 07:28 PM
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Re: Can I scan an enemy planet?
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Originally posted by oleg:
No. The only way I am aware of is to sent ship/drone/fighter on a suicide mision before commiting my fleets.
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This only works in human-controlled tactical combat, right?
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Sending a suicide fighter and then using the Combat Replay should be working I suppose. (Perhaps not with a drone though, as you cannot control them) |
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