Cloaking bug ... or?

[Newbie999]

Ok. I'm new at this. I sent a cloaked ship through an enemy system and found a colonizable planet on the other side, so far so good.

I have a non-cloaked satelite group on the warp point in their system, that the enemy picks fights with but never gets into range.

I created a cloaked colonizer, a cloaked attack ship, and a cloaked supply ship. I made them into a fleet. I sent the fleet through and *blam* -- they saw my fleet.

Does cloak not work for fleets? Did the presence of a non-cloaked ship make them enter attack and then see my cloaked ships?
My ships were cloaked during tactical combat -- but they targeted me anyway? What went wrong?

[Sinapus]

If they have sensors capable of detecting your cloak, then they can attack you. Otherwise you should go right through them w/o attacking.

(In fact, you have to decloak to attack. Something I found out while doing some commerce raiding in a previous game.)


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Originally posted by Sinapus:

(In fact, you have to decloak to attack. Something I found out while doing some commerce raiding in a previous game.)

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What do you mean by commerce raiding?

[Sinapus]

Commerce raiding as in moving your cloaked ship into the same sector as a lone transport or colony ship, decloaking and blowing it up.

[Newbie999]

Sorry, forgot to mention.
They had no sensors on the ships at the wrap point. They're the Nutlah group -- I never played religious long enough to see if that gives them special sensors -- but I've have't yet met a ship of theirs with sensors listed in tactical combat. Remember -- lone cloaked ship flies through system -- no problem. Fleet of cloaked ships -- nabbed at warp point

[Nyx]

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Does cloak not work for fleets? Did the presence of a non-cloaked ship make them enter attack and then see my cloaked ships?
My ships were cloaked during tactical combat -- but they targeted me anyway? What went wrong?

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Yes a single non-cloaked ship in a sector will cause combat to occur when a cloaked fleet of the same player enters. If you have even a single non-cloaked ship in a fleet, the whole thing can get attacked.

And cloaking has no effect during combat. Once tactical begins all ships decloak.

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