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Finding cloaked players
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1st Sergeant
Joined: Fri Feb 28, 2003 3:00 am Posts: 32 Location: USA 
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 Photons are off in the game im playing. Is there any other way to get to hidden players?
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| Sat Mar 01, 2003 12:58 am |
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Lieutenant J.G.  Joined: Tue Feb 19, 2002 3:00 am Posts: 486 Location: United States
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Well you can hope for a cloak fail. You can load the sector and all surrounding sectors with fighters and mines. You can park a L6 planet over them with the IG on. Other than that, without photons I think your SOL.
_________________ It is not our duty to forgive terrorists, that is God's duty. Our duty is to make sure they meet! The Boss TWGS |
| Sat Mar 01, 2003 1:00 am |
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Lance Corporal
Joined: Tue Mar 11, 2003 3:00 am Posts: 4 Location: USA
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ok but how do you find a cloaked ship? i've tried and can't do i can't do it lol.
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| Tue Mar 11, 2003 8:27 pm |
 
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Ambassador  Joined: Fri Feb 23, 2001 3:00 am Posts: 331 Location: USA
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Do a density scan of the sector. If you see an anomoly with no density, then it is a cloaked ship. If you see an anomoly with some density, there MIGHT be a cloaked ship. Here are some density values.
Port = 100 Ship Empty = 38 Fighter = 5 Limpit Mine = 2 earth. _________________ ATTAC TCP/IP Helper http://www.tw-attac.com TWXSync Server (realtime data synchronization) http://www.tw-attac.com/twxsync.html |
| Tue Mar 11, 2003 9:51 pm |
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Chief Warrant Officer  Joined: Mon Feb 11, 2002 3:00 am Posts: 187 Location: USA
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I may be wrong, but I have not been able to see densities for cloaked ships for awhile. Perhaps EIS has moved the game to disable this?
_________________ Severian Don't wait for your "ship to come in" and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small. - Irene Kassorla |
| Wed Mar 12, 2003 12:52 pm |
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Lieutenant J.G. Joined: Tue Feb 19, 2002 3:00 am Posts: 486 Location: United States
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Cloaked ships have no density but do create an anomaly. One favorite trick is before you cloak out you drop limpets to give the anomaly a density value and most people dont bother with draining all the limpets to find out or ptorping the sector to find out. If they cloak in fed space the only thing you can attempt is to put 100% nav haz over them by destroying planets. Note that SD and 1 you cant do anything about, SD doesnt allow nav haz in the sector and you cant build planets in 1. So if you have a guy with 100 fighters or less in fed and you put 100% nav haz over the top of him when he logs in it does 1000 damage and he dies. Trick is to fill the surrounding sectors with it to so it kills his pod also. Personally if I cloak out in fed if I cant do it in 1 or SD then I leave my fighters maxed so I get towed. The chances of being found are slim and you wont log on to 100% nav haz in fed space. As far as actually finding someone thats cloaked it takes a lot of time and turns because you cant see them with probes.
_________________ It is not our duty to forgive terrorists, that is God's duty. Our duty is to make sure they meet! The Boss TWGS |
| Wed Mar 12, 2003 5:10 pm |
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Chief Warrant Officer Joined: Mon Feb 11, 2002 3:00 am Posts: 187 Location: USA
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quote:Originally posted by Shorty
Cloaked ships have no density but do create an anomaly. DOH!!! OK, Thanks shorty... _________________ Severian Don't wait for your "ship to come in" and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small. - Irene Kassorla |
| Wed Mar 12, 2003 5:57 pm |
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Lance Corporal
Joined: Tue Mar 11, 2003 3:00 am Posts: 4 Location: USA
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thanks guys i'll try that
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| Wed Mar 12, 2003 6:13 pm |
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Ensign
Joined: Sat Jan 19, 2002 3:00 am Posts: 214 Location: USA
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Shorty,
Allowing yourself to get towed may be ok in quieter games, but if there is any serious competition, they will certainly amtrak you (surround the MSL's with figs) and then find where you were towed and kill you. _________________ Cherokee The Lost Traders Tavern http://tavern.homeip.net Deployed Fighters Report Sector 911: Cherokee's Imperial Starship entered sector. |
| Thu Mar 13, 2003 4:03 pm |
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Lieutenant J.G. Joined: Tue Feb 19, 2002 3:00 am Posts: 486 Location: United States
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Doh!!! Forgot about that trick. Thanks for reminding me.
_________________ It is not our duty to forgive terrorists, that is God's duty. Our duty is to make sure they meet! The Boss TWGS |
| Thu Mar 13, 2003 5:44 pm |
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Lance Corporal
Joined: Fri Feb 22, 2002 3:00 am Posts: 4
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Dont forget the amtrack as it wont forget you
_________________ Trying to put the F.U. in fun
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| Fri Mar 14, 2003 2:29 am |
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