| Re: How to Hide my PRT |
Sun, 19 June 2016 21:33   |
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 magic9mushroom |
 | Commander |
Messages: 1361
Registered: May 2008 | |
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Okay, I'll admit I was being a little terse there. Let me elaborate a bit more.
The three situations which prove someone to be SS are:
1) You see a ship that could not have gotten to where you saw it without spending a year in deep space within your scanner range, but you didn't see it that year.
2) You get a penscan on a world and things that should be there (e.g. HW starbase, freighters on a world whose pop is increasing) aren't.
3) You see an SS hull, or learn a design (combat/WM) with an SS toy on it.
1) and 2) detect the SS's inherent cloaking, although when doing 2) you should remember that ISB also gives 20% cloaking. 3) is the basic giveaway which is common to all PRTs with toys.
The difficulty of avoiding 1) is basically dependent on universe density. If the universe is dense enough that you can planet-hop every year, this is no real hazard (penscanner races will probably be able to tell when they get Elec 10, but that's quite late). In a sparser uni, though, you really have to work to avoid it. Fortunately, sparsity works both ways, and if you have NAS not only your HW planetary scanner but all your scouts have 300 ly scanners of their own - this means you'll be able to spot nearby homeworlds (apart from other SS, of course) very early. And to be able to reason out your PRT, they have to detect you first - either by chance encounter at a planet, or by you going within 25% of their scan range and being seen through the cloak. So, you just need to avoid those. To be completely safe, you'd want to avoid scouting inside 300 ly of confirmed homeworlds until you've got Chameleon Scanners, but if you're confident you've spotted all their scouts you can just manually avoid running into them. And obviously, stay outside 75 ly from homeworlds and 25 ly from the scouts (Scoper 150 and Rhino Scanner with NAS).
The only races with early penscans are JoaT and SS itself, so 2) isn't going to apply to everyone. If they're also SS, you can pretty much forget hiding your PRT; you won't know they're there
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