Planetary Defenses

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Indeed.

And passive sensors will detect a lack or heat where the "planet" is.

[Dux_Tell31]

Also maybe a feature that causes a ship with flat surfaces to be more visible on sensors.

Yesss... The Borg won't know how I noticed their cubes from my windowless recon frigate so quickly...

This actually a wonderful way to encourage the building of elegant ships, although if implemented it should have a minimum of about 6 blocks before sensors would detect it due to this game feature.

[CaptainSporatic]

Also maybe a feature that causes a ship with flat surfaces to be more visible on sensors.

Yesss... The Borg won't know how I noticed their cubes from my windowless recon frigate so quickly...

This actually a wonderful way to encourage the building of elegant ships, although if implemented it should have a minimum of about 6 blocks before sensors would detect it due to this game feature.

Well, if the ships are converted into entities instead of actual built blocks, there might be some trouble measuring 6 blocks, as the ship would be able to turn side to side and thus go diagonally, creating some problems with diagonal blocks vs. regular blocks. I'm all for encouraging elegant building, though.

[fr0stbyte124]

Things that needs to detect the presence of blocks will treat diagonal blocks as solid cubes unless there is a pressing need for something more accurate.

But that's a moot point here, because any sort of radar scan is going to be an abstract game mechanic and not a proper physics simulation.

I do like the chaff idea, though. One thing we had discussed once is giving some areas heavy radiation that would affect normal scanning equipment. A good place for the sort who don't want to be found.

[Ivan2006]

That´s all good, but has anyone ever thought of the possibility to have more advanced scanners then radar?
Cause it´s quite a bit easy to fool...

[fr0stbyte124]

That´s all good, but has anyone ever thought of the possibility to have more advanced scanners then radar?
Cause it´s quite a bit easy to fool...

Such as?

[cats]

Quantum motion detector thingy from Halo.

[Ivan2006]

That´s all good, but has anyone ever thought of the possibility to have more advanced scanners then radar?
Cause it´s quite a bit easy to fool...

Such as?

Subspace sensors?
Tachylon readers?
*enter random made-up sci-fi ray type here*-scanners?

[cats]

Slip scanners-look into hyperspace from realspace.
Spacial distortion scanners-can detect tiny changes in gravity

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Offtopicness. Back to planet defense pl0x. Scanners and handwavium can go in a new thread.