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[Mono124]

Where?

[TwilightWalker]

Where?

Game Paramenters -> Reduced Height Windows

[Micro102]

How do you tell how far your earth sensors are ranged?

It showed how in the tutorial... Something about hitting Sensors on the map menu, selecting x10, scrolling to 2000, and putting a check in the box. Blue lines will appear to denote your sensor range on every active colony and from your ships.

But isn't that only an assumed range? If you increase the range the blue rings don't increase with it. I want know know how to set it up for whatever amount of sensors I build.

[forsaken1111]

Sensors don't actually have a 'range'. Passive sensors detect objects based on the strength of the contact, with stronger contacts detected further out. Active sensors detect larger objects at longer distances and smaller object at closer ones. The range listed on the active sensor is its optimal distance for it's intended target size, but the actual range of detection is variable.

[Ehndras]

Sensor ranges are variable depending on the size of the contact.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Can somebody explain the complexity of missile loading to me? My ships have magazines to store the missiles, my colony has missiles to store in the magazine, but I seem to be missing a part or a step or something. Telling my Task Group to load ordinance from colony seem to do nothing.

[Smitehappy]

Can somebody explain the complexity of missile loading to me? My ships have magazines to store the missiles, my colony has missiles to store in the magazine, but I seem to be missing a part or a step or something. Telling my Task Group to load ordinance from colony seem to do nothing.

Go into your ships menu (F6) and find the missile armed ships in question. Click the Ordnance Management tab and make sure you have a missile type assigned to the launchers on your ship. Then just load the missiles from the population in the same tab. Viola, your ships should now be armed with missiles to explode stuff.

[gimlet]

--dang ninja'd--

To use "load ordnance" I'm pretty sure you have to have defined an ordnance loadout for the ship class - it's on one of the tabs of the "Ship Design" screen iirc.
There's a way to load missles manually too - maybe one of the tabs on the Ship screen?

[Tarran]

To use "load ordnance" I'm pretty sure you have to have defined an ordnance loadout for the ship class - it's on one of the tabs of the "Ship Design" screen iirc.

F5 Ordnance/Fighters tab.

There's a way to load missles manually too - maybe one of the tabs on the Ship screen?

Go into your ships menu (F6) and find the missile armed ships in question. Click the Ordnance Management tab and make sure you have a missile type assigned to the launchers on your ship. Then just load the missiles from the population in the same tab. Viola, your ships should now be armed with missiles to explode stuff.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Excellent. Now I just have to design some missiles that have good range (my current missile designs have either 80km or 40km max range).

[Smitehappy]

Question, do drones with their own active sensors need a FC with any sort of range or can they operate by themselves as soon as they leave the launcher. I ask this because I've set up a drone to be used with a stealth corvette that act as it's active sensors. They're very long range but I'd rather not dedicate a FC on my corvette that's has a range of 1 Billion km when all it needs to do is head towards a selected planet.

-Also does the Maximum Tonnage of a cloak (Say 4000 tons) ignore the weight of the cloaking electronics?

[Hanzoku]

Nope. That's the point of further cloaking research.

[Areyar]

remember: active sensors would nullify your stealth tech.
At least, that is what I heard.

[Felius]

remember: active sensors would nullify your stealth tech.
At least, that is what I heard.

More or less. It'd still have a reduced sensor profile. It's just broadcasting it's position very loudly due to the active sensors. It does help a little bit as it'll be harder to actually target it, but it certainly won't be very actually stealthy.

[Smitehappy]

Yeah that's why I have the active sensors attached to the drones. Sure, they'll broadcast where my ship is but they AI isn't smart enough to look at where the drone originated from.

Also am I setting my fire control wrong? I go into combat settings, select the right fire control, set the fire control mode and click set mode but nothing happens and as soon as I navigate away it gets reset to none.