Em scube

posted on September 14th, 2010, 11:29 pm

So the scube has its own invisible ping, basically.

posted on September 15th, 2010, 11:22 am

the effect of EM field obays an internal cooldown of 5 seconds. If vessels cloak shortly after an EM field effect was activated, they might slip through detection for a few seconds

thanks for the info on this, i will keep this in mind when playing.

when does the em field effect get triggered? is it the instant the em scube fires on an enemy ship? and if they are not cloaking when the em scube fires they wont be decloaked i assume? and the em scube will have to wait 5 seconds before it does the effect again?

would it be possible to have a little effect on the em scube when the effect happens, maybe the blue em field around the scube could get brighter when it's triggered. then return to normal. so every five seconds in battle the em scube would flash and cause decloak.

posted on September 15th, 2010, 11:49 am

the effect is triggered when entering combat and then triggered every 5 seconds. 3.1.4 will introduce changes to the EM field to become more reliable in this situations

posted on September 15th, 2010, 2:09 pm

Incidentally that is what written on the guide (database) for a loooong time too 

posted on September 15th, 2010, 2:22 pm

Incidentally that is what written on the guide (database) for a loooong time too 

Ah, if only people took the time to read the guide eh Dom?

posted on September 15th, 2010, 3:01 pm

the effect is triggered when entering combat and then triggered every 5 seconds. 3.1.4 will introduce changes to the EM field to become more reliable in this situations

yay

Incidentally that is what written on the guide (database) for a loooong time too 

Ah, if only people took the time to read the guide eh Dom?

i read anything that appears as updated on the main page. the last time i read the borg database section this stuff wasnt there, and there was a period where the update thing didnt work. so i didnt know stuff was put there. nobody can be expected to read the entire guide repeatedly. only the updated bits.

posted on September 15th, 2010, 3:07 pm

Hm, I only put significant updates in the update part (read: new sections, big pieces of info, etc), and the Database doesn't show updates at all . The update list isn't yet "expandable" so I try to save updates just for the really "important things", which obviously means that small corrections, and rearrangements/reorganization usually is left out  . However, if you have a question about coding stuff, I would highly recommend to check the guide first, since it will most likely be there - and if it isn't, I'll gladly put it there  . I put the EM scube stuff a few days after 3.1.3 came out after I got a request

posted on September 19th, 2010, 9:47 pm

Maybe itd be nice if an effect was added to show that the cloak detect was working, like a green light or some sort of scanning that turns red when it finds the ship, and if it doesnt..... well it stays green