Cloaking

[Matticus88]

So, The wiki says


Box Dimension + Count of Modules = Duration of cloak.


Does this mean that the in-game description about the area of the cloak isn't correct? So all i need to cloak any ship is to have enough power and 1 cloak block, and that would clock even a huge ship, albeit for a very short time?

 

[phillippassmore]

I have been testing. I found a small ship would cloak for about 2 seconds with 1 cloak block before power drained. After covering the ship in power gens I found I was able to cloak for less than a second... So I then put an extra 10 cloaking blocks on the ship and it would then refuse to cloak entirely....

 

[Leviticus777]

phillip, covering a ship with power generators is extremely ineffecient. The cost of cloaking is about 1k energy per sec per 10 blocks I believe. In order to cloak larger ships you must stack batteries in a single long dimension.

Ex:

+++++++++++++++



in place of

+++

+++

+++



where + is a gen. Get it?

 

[phillippassmore]

That explains a lot. Will give it a go.