Question about cloaking

[Q]

Has anybody tried to make different cloaking devices. If so, do different cloaking components on a ship work combined or is only one component active?
E.g if I make a new tachyon cloak device with level 5 tachyon cloaking that cannot be defeated be any unmodified tachyon sensor but will be defeated by hyperoptics sensors and combine it with an other hyperoptic cloaking device level 5 that cannot be defeated by hyperoptic sensors but only by tachyon sensors on the same ship: can this ship be detected if I have both tachyon and hyperotic sensors in the system?

[Suicide Junkie]

If any sensor in the system exceeds the corresponding cloak value, the ship is visible.

If the ship has level 5 in all of the applicable cloaks, it cannot be detected without modding sensor strength.

[Q]

SJ I am aware of this. My question is if the abilities of two different cloaking components are addiditive?

[Skulky]

So you could not make a series of lvl 5 cloaks that only defend against one type of sensor? If you had just one sensor strong enough to see one of the say 3 cloak components the ship would be visible, the other cloaks wouldn't back up the revealed one? It seems a shame to have all these different sensors when they aren't really too different.
How about a mine detector? Or a super cloak whose detector is only available for sats and WP and bases, the cloak would be enourmous and $$ too but hey it could get you into the homeworlds. Also, if you have a cloak, say stealth armor and you warp through a mined warp point where the enemy has no detection will you take a hit? or can you slip through minefields like that?

[Phoenix-D]

If you have a, say, two cloaking devices, one that gives:

Level 2 Active
Level 3 Passive
Level 5 Gravitic
Level 3 racial

and one that gives
Level 4 Active
Level 2 Passive
Level 0 Gravitic
Level 0 racial

("racial" is actually two different techs)

If you have BOTH these devices on your ship, you'll have a combined cloaking ability of:
Level 4 Active
Level 3 Passive
Level 5 Gravitic
Level 3 Racial

And be detected by level 4 active sensors, level 3 passive, level 5 gravitic, and level 3 "racial" (cloak level = or < sensors, detected)

So yes, cloaks can be set to provide differing levels of protection against different kinds of sensors, and they CAN be combined.

EDIT: and in other words, the ship in Q's example question would NOT be visible unless you had a sensor other than tachyon or hyper-optics.

Phoenix-D

[ 11 January 2002: Message edited by: Phoenix-D ]

[Suicide Junkie]

Mines can "see" through any cloak. The general idea is that your ship runs into the mines on its own. (really only makes sense in warppoint/planet sectors, where they can be concentrated around the object).

Mines are a poor man's cloak detector