Cloak
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There are two primary uses for Cloak: | There are two primary uses for Cloak: | ||
| - | *Defense - High Cloak will help help prevent you (or your planet) from showing up on other people's scans, thereby reducing your likelihood of being attacked in the first place. | + | *Defense - High Cloak will help help prevent you (or your planet) from showing up on other people's scans, thereby reducing your likelihood of being attacked in the first place. It also reduces the chance of you being critically hit in combat. |
| - | *Hacking - Before you can hack an enemy ship, you must have a high enough cloak to avoid detection by your target. | + | *Hacking - Before you can hack an enemy ship, you must have a high enough cloak to avoid detection by your target. Cloak is also factored into the actual hack attempt (along with Scan) to determine the success of your attempt. A successful Hack attempt will allow you to steal enemy research points. A critical hack will steal a random planet location from their database. |
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Revision as of 14:14, 17 March 2011
Cloak is one of the ten basic ship statistics that will define your capabilities in the game. It acts as a defense against Scan.
Benefits
There are two primary uses for Cloak:
- Defense - High Cloak will help help prevent you (or your planet) from showing up on other people's scans, thereby reducing your likelihood of being attacked in the first place. It also reduces the chance of you being critically hit in combat.
- Hacking - Before you can hack an enemy ship, you must have a high enough cloak to avoid detection by your target. Cloak is also factored into the actual hack attempt (along with Scan) to determine the success of your attempt. A successful Hack attempt will allow you to steal enemy research points. A critical hack will steal a random planet location from their database.
Improvements
Cloak can be improved by installing cloaking modules and jammers on your ship.