What am I doing wrong? |
I designed a series of sats using 2 solar panels (maxed tech) that supply 100 points supply each per star. Included in the design is a cloaking sheild, tachyon scanners, self-destruct, and computer core. The rest of the space is filled with supply containers. The design has 2500 supply points, generates 200 points of supply. The only thing that uses supply is the cloaking field which uses only 100 points of supply. After about two turns on stealth, the @&#^$*@# things come out of stealth and sit there. The supply level never drops, I don't disengage the stealth field. What the heck is going on????
Re: What am I doing wrong?
I do think extra components do not work while cloaked.
- Construction yards do not work cloaked
- Remote mining bases do not work while cloaked.
I'm afraid there are some limitations on your cloakfield 
As for Randallw; That bug was resolved in one of the latest patches.
~Myrath
Re: What am I doing wrong?
Neither of the supply generators, nor the ammo vat, work while cloaked. Thus, at 100 supply per turn, your 2500 supply fighter can go 25 turns (2 1/2 years) and then drops out of cloak.
HOWEVER - if you don't then go back and turn the cloaking device off, the satellite thinks its still on. So: no supplies = no cloak AND on (but useless) cloak = no new supplies.
I used to salt cloaked satellites everywhere in an attempt to see my foes. The efforts I spent maintaining them never seemed worth it.
Try a cloaked frigate stuffed full of supplies with big sensor tech. THOSE babies last a ridiculous amount of time.
Re: What am I doing wrong?
I think it may be a bug. I had a war with an enemy and we both used cloaking equipped scouts, but every turn they would drop automatically out of cloak. We could run through warp points undetected but afterwards we always popped up so the other side could see us. We had to recloak every turn until we both gave up.