Storms and tricks with 'em

Laurus · #1 May 6th, 2003, 09:24 PM

My bad, I thought you meant that ALL ships in the system would not be shown not the SECTOR. My fault,, I got all excited there.

Yes an opaque storm over a star renders all ships and the star invisible (unless maybe you click on it) Does an opaque storm in the middle of normal space render ships invisible or do they HAVE to be over a star?

Slynky · #2 May 6th, 2003, 09:33 PM

I thought only storms that interferred with sensors rendered ships (etc.) hidden. I thought (and think I have seen) ships that "park" in a storm, say that renders shields useless, can still be seen.

Laurus · #3 May 6th, 2003, 09:41 PM

ya, the trick is to make sure you are hiding behind an OPAQUE storm. In the definition it will say 'this storm appears opaque to most scanners' or something like that.

Only opaque ones (in my experience) have been able to hide anything! It is kinda a chore flying around the universe with a ship to create storms AND a ship to destroy storms when the storm you just created isn't the type of storm you wanted..