stellar manipulation question

Fyron · #1 July 18th, 2002, 09:11 PM

In 1.49, cloaked minesweepers do not uncloak if they hit a minefield. I think that in Gold, they will uncloak the entire fleet to sweep the field, but I am not certain.

Mephisto · #2 July 24th, 2002, 07:27 PM

Only the AI will decloak if it knows that a minefield is present. It will hit a minefield if cloaked without sweeping if it is an unknown minefield.

Puke · #3 July 24th, 2002, 07:44 PM

will it recloak after it hits the known minefield? therefore it would only be visible for one day in a simultanious game, as it passes through the field?

that way, you could mark warp points and planets as having minefields, so that your fleet will uncloak to try to sweep them, just in case.

geoschmo · #4 July 24th, 2002, 08:10 PM

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Originally posted by Grandpakim:
Hmm. I was attacked by a fully cloaked fleet! The only time I saw it was in the combat screen and all ships did have stealth armor.

Grandpkim, I don't have an explaination from what you have told us here. I know that in every case I have ever tried to attack with cloaked ships I have to uncloak or nothing happens. Unless they happen to have mines there of course. And this was on 1.49 too.

Do you still have the turn file I could look at? Or if it's a PBW game just tell me which and about what turn it was and I can take it from there.

Geoschmo