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1201 days, 0 hours, 13 minutes ago

yacob

I have started playing the Privs for the first time in the...

I have started playing the Privs for the first time in the single player campaigns just to get a feel for them. On the last turn, a cloaked MCBR moved to one of my planets at which an enemy Cobol Class Research vessel had just arrived.

I had 3 other cloaked MCBRs at that location, but for some reason one of them engaged the Cobol in combat (and won).

The question is, why? It had no primary enemy, it had fuel and was set to cloak.

Thanks

1200 days, 23 hours, 9 minutes ago

RE: I have started playing the Privs for the first time in the...

Loki or Ion Storm are the most common.

1200 days, 22 hours, 57 minutes ago

RE: I have started playing the Privs for the first time in the...

Was that ship that was attacked anywhere near an ion storm?

Ion storms move their full movement and then decloak cloakers. Ships then move uncloaked and it could then have been attacked.

So was that ship in an ion storm or just in front of an ion storm last turn and then moved to the planet and was then attacked?

If not press the contact button. link the game and ask admin.

1200 days, 19 hours, 27 minutes ago

RE: I have started playing the Privs for the first time in the...

Congratulations on the newest ship to your fleet, bet you wished you could do that every time...Ra

1200 days, 19 hours, 2 minutes ago

kali-fal

RE: I have started playing the Privs for the first time in the...

He did not mention a Loki - besides the Loki would have had to be at the same location. In addition to that he mentioned 3 MCBRs at the same position but only one was decloaked and fought. So Ion storm would give no reasonable explanation for what happened.
I know from older games (not planets.nu) that there were settings for odds of a failing cloaking device - usually set to 0.5%. If that is also true your game your cloaking device for this one MCBR just failed due to the game settings.

1200 days, 18 hours, 56 minutes ago

RE: I have started playing the Privs for the first time in the...

Kali hit the point I was going to make- cloak has a failure rate and when I play the Priv it seems to happen a few times a game. I cannot remember if you get a message - like someone forgot to pull the lever, but if you go to the ship now does it say cloaked?

1200 days, 18 hours, 26 minutes ago

RE: I have started playing the Privs for the first time in the...

i recall someone telling me that cloak no longer has a failure rate in planets nu.

rob has a chance to fail though.

1200 days, 17 hours, 15 minutes ago

decius

RE: I have started playing the Privs for the first time in the...

@Kali-Fal
Lokis decloak both before and after movement, so it wouldn't have to be at the same location as the fighting (and besides which, they have a 10 ly radius effect, so it could just be nearby--or have been near where one of the MCBRs left).

As @Martinr, an ion storm seems likely since the single player maps tend to be small and ion storms are not intuitive (the order in which they move, decloak, drag, etc.).

As for why just one MBR fought...was it just the first one (lowest FC or ship ID)? Are all the others still cloaked?

I don't think Planets Nu has a cloak failure chance (i.e., it's 0%)...

1200 days, 16 hours, 16 minutes ago

RE: I have started playing the Privs for the first time in the...

There is no cloak fail %. Its set to 0%.

We require more information.

Was the ship which died the lowest id number or lowest friendly code? Which meant that possibly all of them were uncloaked due to an ion storm or Loki or nebula.

Or did the ship that was destroyed move from an area that had an ion storm, nebula or in the area of a Loki.

You get Loki decloak messages. I don't think you get a nebula or ion storm decloak message (can anyone remind me?).

If you were cloaked last turn you will have a blue / green cloaked after your location position. No cloaked means last turn the cloak was cancelled for a nebula, ion storm or Loki.

What happened is the Cobol was on Kill or PE and could see a ship and attacked it and was destroyed.

1199 days, 22 hours, 53 minutes ago

yacob

RE: I have started playing the Privs for the first time in the...

Thanks for all the responses.

There is no Ion Storm in the vicinity, and no Lokis that I can see.

Interestingly the MCBR that "attacked" is ID 001.

The turn prior to the combat, the MCBR was set to "Rob Ship" at a planet 1 turn away, I changed the mission to "cloak" and set the waypoint at the planet which i could see the cobol heading to.

Looking at time machine, the other 3 MCBRs which were set to cloak at that location didn't seem to cloak either, but as the first one was successful in combat there was no impact.

1199 days, 22 hours, 4 minutes ago

challengespaceyard

RE: I have started playing the Privs for the first time in the...

How much fuel did the MCBRs have at the time they tried to cloak?

1199 days, 21 hours, 48 minutes ago

RE: I have started playing the Privs for the first time in the...

The initial info about the other 3 meteors being cloaked was incorrect.

Is there a possibility that you were incorrect regarding a loki on a planet within 10 ly of your ships which you would not see (but that should give a decloak message), an ion storm, or nebula.

If all the info now stated is correct I can only come up with 2 ideas:

1) Since this is a single player game, the computer cobol cheated and could see your cloaked ships. I don't think this is the case because you later verified that the other 3 meteors became decloaked also.

2) This leaves the only remote and mysterious result I have experienced a couple times which I can only explain by the following which was corroborated by similar effects on enemy cloakers in the same area.

An ion storm formed over those 4 meteors, decloaked them, and was removed from the game as being above the game limit for the number of ion storms allowed with a lower strength than the ion storms which remained that turn...Ra

1199 days, 18 hours, 59 minutes ago

RE: I have started playing the Privs for the first time in the...

@Yacob: What Races are in this Level? If none of those races can build Lokis that really eliminates that possbility entirely.

I'd also take a look at every single Report!
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@Ra: "An ion storm formed over those 4 meteors, decloaked them, and was removed from the game"

Or hit a Star Cluster? "Ion Storms which enter a radiation halo gain strength. Ion storms that touch a star cluster are immediately destroyed." Source; http://help.planets.nu/star-clusters
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I know very little about of the Levels OR Reports so good luck everyone!