Cloak + ROB question?

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2428 days, 9 hours, 52 minutes ago

Cloak + ROB question?

Hello!

One question, what happens in next situation:

I go to planet with my cloaking ship UNCLOAKED, there stands cloaked meteor class blockade runner.

THEN privateer ofcourse sees my ship, and sets meteor mission ROB. Same turn I set my ships mission CLOAK.

What happen next turn, does my ship get robbed? Or will it cloak before ROB mission, so it ends up cloaking and not robbed..

I know host order says cloak becomes before ROB, but i am in the same planet, and there is meteor set to ROB my ship. Does the cloaking prevent ROB even privateer has allready seen my ship and choosed it as a ROB target.

Another question: If there are multiple ships in same planet, and there is one robbing ship. Which ship will be robbed? And if robber has enough fuel capacity, can it rob multiple ships?

Third question: If my ship gets robbed to 0 fuel, and it has mission beam up fuel. Will it be fuelled or not? Does beam up fuel work if ship already has 0 fuel

Thanks

P.S Sorry about basic questions, but haven´t played planets for 13 years.. but god damn it is fun again! :)

2428 days, 9 hours, 44 minutes ago

star72066

RE: Cloak + ROB question?

You cloak - Privateer cannot rob what he cannot see. Your ship is safe.

2428 days, 9 hours, 41 minutes ago

RE: Cloak + ROB question?

So a darkwing set to KILL/CLOAK/KILL/CLOAK is quite bad guy against the privs :) That´s what i remembered it to be...

Thanks

2428 days, 9 hours, 10 minutes ago

RE: Cloak + ROB question?

For your other question, the robbing ship will rob enemy ships in order of ship ID and it will continue to rob until it runs out of space to store fuel, cargo and money.

2428 days, 9 hours, 0 minutes ago

RE: Cloak + ROB question?

So i can put low id neutronic fuel carrier with my BBS to be robbed first...

2428 days, 0 hours, 10 minutes ago

RE: Cloak + ROB question?

Looks like your first two questions were answered already, as for the last one.

If a ship is set to beam up fuel and it has no fuel already or its robbed from the ship, your ship set to beam up fuel will beam up fuel from the planet. If the planet is an enemy planet then you will need to know that planet's friendly code and set your ship to the same friendly code to beam up the fuel.

2427 days, 23 hours, 20 minutes ago

RE: Cloak + ROB question?

> So i can put low id neutronic fuel carrier with my BBS to be robbed first...

Aye. But the fuel carrier will be tow-destroyed and not robbed ;)

2427 days, 13 hours, 13 minutes ago

RE: Cloak + ROB question?

othrym: Aye. But the fuel carrier will be tow-destroyed and not robbed

why not tow capture it instead?

that is, capture it in combat !

2427 days, 11 hours, 33 minutes ago

RE: Cloak + ROB question?

The fuel carrier only has a hull mass of 10, no shields or beams either. I had a recent combat with one of them, one hit from a single disruptor and the ship took over 1000% damage.

2427 days, 10 hours, 44 minutes ago

RE: Cloak + ROB question?

Thanks for the answers, that´s what i remembered things to be, but i needed confirmation before things get bad... neighbour priv has blocked communication and there are nasty meteors sitting 1.5ly from my planets...

2426 days, 20 hours, 11 minutes ago

RE: Cloak + ROB question?

not sure why you want to communicate with them, but theres away around that black flag, have another player in the same game relay your message. although it might be considered rude to do so. you could also post in the game discussion forum to see if you get a response. either way if he blocked you for a reason, your post had probably better be a good one.

2426 days, 10 hours, 38 minutes ago

RE: Cloak + ROB question?

Be wary coming out of cloak to fight though. With kill mission set you are vulnerable to being robbed.

I found this the hard way with a bright heart surrendering to a Starbase that turn. If your going to use kill, the ship had to have started the turn at a different location and moved there.