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Sun, 27 April 2003 18:32  |
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 Marduk |
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Messages: 345
Registered: January 2003
Location: Dayton, OH | |
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Greetings;
I'm trying to decide what the most effective design for a cloak-buster ship would be. I have access to the mini-morph hull, but do not yet have nubians (the obvious best choice, I think). My electronic tech is level 16, and I have NAS. I also have the RNA scanner, so cost/effectiveness is something to consider as well.
I've looked at a number of options... the mini-morph with a single scanner and nine TDs, a galleon with two scanners and ten TDs or eight scanners and four TDs, or a frigate with one or two RNA scanners and one to three TDs. A frigate with one RNA scanner and one TD is really cheap, so I could afford to build a lot - but how does the cost compare to a single, more effective ship?
My personal preference at this point is a galleon with eight scanners and four TDs. But I am unsure exactly how the TD works against cloaking. It lists a percentage degredation to enemy cloaks, but is that directly off of a fleet's cloak value, or does it reduce the cloak units the fleet produces? Quite a difference, since with enough overcloaking you could still achieve a 98% cloak if it just reduces cloak units. The guts of cloaking section doesn't specify, and I haven't been able to find anything about it yet on the newgroup or here.
If it operates as a reduction of the cloaking percentage (my assumption), then more scanners and fewer TDs seems to be the most effective. But if it is a reduction of cloak units, I think the other way around would be better.
Does anyone know which way it works? And what recommendations do you have for the design?
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