The planet from nowhere!...

[Taz-in-Space]

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif Hey! I just had a planet show up that I know wasn't there before. In a system that I had already colonized, a large planet just showed up with my atmosphere!
Did anyone else experiance this?

[Cyrien]

I have had this experience.

Turned out to be an ally of mine with a planet creation ship that had cloaking ability. It went around making new planets out of the asteroid belts.

[Suicide Junkie]

You may have also just brought in enough sensor power to break through a cloaking storm covering the planet... P&N has such things occur in the wonder systems.

[Gryphin]

could it have been a TDM race?
Cloaked Planet creator?

[QuarianRex]

You could have also just witnessed a spatial warp(?) random event. They tend to shift planets and ships around the galaxy willy-nilly.

[Taera]

yeah i once had a sun warped away...

j/k http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Ed Kolis]

Spatial warp events don't warp planets... would be cool if they did though! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Taz-in-Space]

A cloaked planet maker may be possible. There is no asteroid field in the system now. I AM playing against the TDM AI's in this game. I just never knew that the TDM's were programmed to use Planet Making components! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

[Slick]

Originally posted by Taz-in-Space:
A cloaked planet maker may be possible. There is no asteroid field in the system now. I AM playing against the TDM AI's in this game. I just never knew that the TDM's were programmed to use Planet Making components! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Oh yes they do. I can verify that. They will make use of lots of the advanced Stellar Manipulation components. I have seen warp openers, star destroyers, planet makers. I usually don't let them get too far past the star destroyer stage before I have to take them out.

Slick.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
You may have also just brought in enough sensor power to break through a cloaking storm covering the planet... P&N has such things occur in the wonder systems.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Those also occur in FQM, so if you were playing with it, check for storms. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Can a cloaked ship actually do stellar manipulation? I guess if it is a boring sequential game the ship could decloak, do SM and recloak all on the same turn, but I still don't think you can do SM while cloaked...

[ April 19, 2003, 05:22: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Hugh Manatee]

question: Is it possible to mod a component that will cloak a planet? Perhaps by putting it on a weapon platform or a station or something? Or is it possible to give this abillity to a facility?

[oleg]

Originally posted by Hugh Manatee:
question: Is it possible to mod a component that will cloak a planet? Perhaps by putting it on a weapon platform or a station or something? Or is it possible to give this abillity to a facility?<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">check out Space Monsters race from Devnull mod.

[Raging Deadstar]

Originally posted by Taz-in-Space:
A cloaked planet maker may be possible. There is no asteroid field in the system now. I AM playing against the TDM AI's in this game. I just never knew that the TDM's were programmed to use Planet Making components! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Never let The AI Have a Stellar Manipulation ship in a system with anything of yours in! I was trying to capture my enemies homeworld with a fleet of 50 ships when my Ally decided to send a sun destroyer in!