stealth armor

[LGM]

I think that Cloak Levels add to System or Sector Cloak Levels (Nebula and Storms). Therefore a Cloak 3 plus a Level 2 cloaking storm whould make a ship undetectable.

[Q]

Originally posted by LGM:
I think that Cloak Levels add to System or Sector Cloak Levels (Nebula and Storms). Therefore a Cloak 3 plus a Level 2 cloaking storm whould make a ship undetectable.

No, cloak levels do not add. It's just the highest individual one that is active.

[Taz-in-Space]

A word of caution on using stealth armor on sattelites. While this might at first glance to be a good idea (for the +15 defence) DO NOT use this on satellites guarding Warp Points! This will cloak the whole stack of satellites and let your enemy in. I had a whole system wiped out by the Rage this way!

[Gryphin]

Bad Rage, Bad, Bad, Bad! Shame on you for glassing poor little Taz.

I belive you can use Stealth armor in Sats as long as you don't turn it on.

[dumbluck]

TAZ: this is only true when the ENEMY cannot see anything of yours in the sector. If you had had just one little uncloaked fighter at the warppoint, all those cloaked sats would have joined the battle between the Rage and that one little fighter. Also bare in mind that if the Rage had had any sensors that defeated the CA, there also would have been a battle...

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by Taz-in-Space:
A word of caution on using stealth armor on sattelites. While this might at first glance to be a good idea (for the +15 defence) DO NOT use this on satellites guarding Warp Points! This will cloak the whole stack of satellites and let your enemy in. I had a whole system wiped out by the Rage this way!

Yes, this is a long-standing problem. If even ONE satellite in a stack has stealth armor or other cloaking ability then the whole stack gets treated as cloaked when enemy units come through the warp point -- regardless of whether it is actually cloaked or not. So the whole purpose of the satellite stack on your WP is defeated. I've complained many times to MM about it. He can't seem to find what causes it. If you have sats with cloaking ability sitting on a WP you'd better have something ELSE there to trigger combat when the enemy comes through the WP. A base, ships, something...

[ September 04, 2002, 21:51: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

[Grandpa Kim]

By default, Stealth armor's cloaking ability is "off". You must actively engage its cloaking ability to cloak your ship/satellite etc. If you find the armor cloak is "on", just turn it "off"!

Kim