[1.5] New Stealth in Nebulae broken

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Stealth interacts very badly with nebulae. Visibility is unplayably short, but this does not effect NPCs, and the forgetting of dockable ships makes them unfindable.
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Also, I believe you can still target ships that are inside nebulae if you have a targetting ROM installed? That way, you can initiate combat at range even though you couldn't initially see anyone on the radar due to nebula stealth.
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It seems ships in nebula get +2 stealth and -4 perception.
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Indeed. Stealth needs to take a bit more difference before going from 'invisible outside 1 ls' to 'perfectly detectable anywhere in the system'.
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My targeting program could perfectly track any ship through a nebula, but it couldn't select a new target unless I was practically parked through it before activating.
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catfighter wrote:My targeting program could perfectly track any ship through a nebula, but it couldn't select a new target unless I was practically parked through it before activating.
I've had the same experience. Perhaps stealth should have an impact on how far a lock can be maintained.
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JohnBWatson wrote:
catfighter wrote:My targeting program could perfectly track any ship through a nebula, but it couldn't select a new target unless I was practically parked through it before activating.
I've had the same experience. Perhaps stealth should have an impact on how far a lock can be maintained.
This would need to also apply to the AI: currently you can be targeted by a ship that cannot "see" you under some circumstances.
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Yeah, this made an escort mission horrendous because the only range at which I could see the Sandstorm Gunships was when they were pretty much on top of the freighters I was guarding. It breaks anything where you need to protect a ship and it decides to fly through a nebula.
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JimB wrote:It breaks anything where you need to protect a ship and it decides to fly through a nebula.
The same for primordial gas clouds. I would have lost my Korolov freighter (either literally or to the pirates) if it weren't for the map icon and a repeating weapon.
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