how does one get a cloaking device?

Drakna · Post by **Drakna** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 6:40 am

i am looking for one on bases and stuff and then i check the cargo area of a university class planet and it shows research stuff. would it be in there?

andreasj · Post by **andreasj** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:19 am

Cloaking devices are available from some Aera installations, especially fighter barracks and star fortresses. However I could not find any ship that can actually be equipped with a cloaking device.

Dyskord · Post by **Dyskord** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:49 pm

I only found those in milspec-packages from the aera, and was unable to equip them, too.

If you just want to fly cloaked, the Schroedinger (Scout) has a cloaking device, dont know which one i bought, milspec or stock one, but this device works (not removable, its activated in the csv, as it seems)

Post by **loki1950** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 1:37 pm

The Con Fed version of the cloak shows up for sale at Research Stations once in a blue moon

They are rare.

Enjoy the Choice

Dyskord · Post by **Dyskord** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 6:36 pm

Is it an universal device then, or like the aera milspec-package / extension, that doesnt want to be installed obviously?

Post by **loki1950** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:24 pm

I am not sure what restrictions jackS has placed on them for this version but in 0.4.3 they were not part of the mil spec package

and yes installable so if you are of the hacking sort a look at the master_part_list.csv might tell you more

Enjoy the Choice

Drakna · Post by **Drakna** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:37 am

looking at the master part list is only helpful if you understand it enough to hack that component into your ships csv file

Dyskord · Post by **Dyskord** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:21 am

Yeah, im currently not that good, the last time i tried this, i broke the ships file ;D

What works, is enabling the "can_cloak" and so other values in the csv (i just copied the values from the Schroedinger's csv). Draknar, in case you didnt read this now on the forums, OpenOffice Calc for example can open the csv's, just use Kommas as separator there.
Doesnt display the upgrades in a nice way for me though :/

Drakna · Post by **Drakna** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:49 am

openoffice.org opens the cvs files fine

Post by **loki1950** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:08 pm

So does Exel but don't save with it it borks the file. the preferred tool can be found in this thread http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forum ... php?t=7143

Enjoy the Choice

Drakna · Post by **Drakna** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 5:32 pm

i just select the default ubuntu text editor actually. it doesnt bork the file and it perfectly readable

Post by **loki1950** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 9:55 pm

Ahh good old gedit

KDE's kwrite does the same you just have to know the proper format

Enjoy the Choice

JimiJons · Post by **JimiJons** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 5:15 am

I'm a nub, but I docked an Unadorned Ox and found a cloaking device (under "Experimental"), so I bought it. I have it equipped to my Uber-Llama, but I don't know how to activate it and it reads as having a 0 energy output. I'm guessing I have to activate it first, lol.

But yeh, that's where I found it. Any help on getting it to work? lol

Miramor · Post by **Miramor** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 7:02 am

Press 'c' to toggle it. And be warned that certain Aera ships can sometimes see through it.

JimiJons · Post by **JimiJons** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:09 pm

Alright, thanks.

Xante · Post by **Xante** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:03 pm

loki1950 wrote:The Con Fed version of the cloak shows up for sale at Research Stations once in a blue moon They are rare.

Enjoy the Choice

What is a "blue moon"? Where can I find one?

Post by **loki1950** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:34 pm

Blue moon is an expression an idiom that means very rare.

The expression is very old and was used to describe something of small probability 100 year floods storms etc..

Enjoy the Choice

Post by **jackS** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 6:06 pm

Actually, blue moons (two new moons in the same month) aren't nearly as rare as 100 year floods

. By pigeonhole principle, you can see that they have to happen at _least_ once every 3 years (37 lunar months in 36 months).