Cloaking drones bug?

BBegemott · #1 December 18th, 2003, 09:12 AM

If I incude Stealth Armor I into drones design, the de/cloaking buttons appear in meniu. However they do not work correctly. The cloaking ring appears only in the drones information window (under supplies), but not in the main system window. If I order a drone to cloak, the next multiplayer turn its state is automatically set to 'uncloaked'- the cloaked status icon is removed from drones information window.
I'm using GOLD 1.84

Has anybody encountered that already? Or should I send this bug to Malfador?

Ed Kolis · #2 December 18th, 2003, 04:33 PM

I know the cloaking ring not appearing for units on the system map has been fixed, but I haven't heard anything about drones automatically uncloaking... might want to send that one in

Baron Munchausen · #3 December 18th, 2003, 07:20 PM

They are supposed to uncloak just before they hit their target, though. How great is the range to target when they uncloak? If it's only a single turn's movement they are behaving correctly.

[ December 18, 2003, 17:20: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

BBegemott · #4 December 19th, 2003, 11:04 AM

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen :
How great is the range to target when they uncloak?

There is no distance, no target. The drones are sitting on a warp doing nothing. I order them to cloak, hit 'end turn' and the next turn they are decloaked again.
I thought to use them as tiny portable spy vehicles that costs no maintenance. But this idea fails.

Q · #5 December 19th, 2003, 11:24 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by BBegemott:
I thought to use them as tiny portable spy vehicles that costs no maintenance. But this idea fails.

Why don't you use sats for this purpose?
But I think you are right that if you want to keep this drone cloaked it should be possible.
Just a stupid question: you don't have any ministers activated?

narf poit chez BOOM · #6 December 19th, 2003, 11:26 AM

maybe it's because drones are supposed to be throw-away and cloaking them is ongoing.

Q · #7 December 19th, 2003, 11:39 AM

Just made a test but in a turn based game: drone cloaking worked without problems and the cloaking was not deactivated after a turn.

BBegemott · #8 December 19th, 2003, 01:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Q:
Why don't you use sats for this purpose?
But I think you are right that if you want to keep this drone cloaked it should be possible.
Just a stupid question: you don't have any ministers activated?

Sats can not move. I design a drone to have enough solar sails to regenerate supplies while sitting + stealth armor + some engines. And move it to a system I want to observe. At the highest drone level it is possible to include some kind of scanners to see cloaked ships as well.
I think it is much less micromanagment than using sats.

And nope, no ministers.

Quote:

Originally posted by Q:
Just made a test but in a turn based game: drone cloaking worked without problems and the cloaking was not deactivated after a turn.

Yes, turned based works fine. But it does not in multi. I have just ran 2 multiplayer turns on PBW today. The first turn I order a drone to cloak. The next it was automatically decloaked.

BBegemott · #9 December 19th, 2003, 01:50 PM

Reported this bug to Malfador. I hope they'll fix it in the next patch