Okay, so I read that some NPCs with high cloak cannot be seen unless your scan is high enough - but how does this actually work in terms of mechanics?

Do I get a blank slot in my Battle tab that I cannot see any NPC ship in unless my scan is higher - or does the game just check my scan when filling an empty slot and exclude any NPCs with higher cloak when doing the random pull?

Yesterday I was filling my battle-tab from empty and my 4th slot didn't fill until I had clicked the battle tab twice more - so I was wondering if it was a game glitch or that it meant that I actually missed a high cloak NPC and if I had boosted my scan the slot might not have appeared empty?

interesting...i'd like to know too

That.

As to your 4th Slot, the game only add's 1 npc to a slot at a time, So if you went away for 8hrs and came back to 1 NPC, you'd have to click battle 3 times to get the other 3 npcs.

Alternatively if you dodn't click the X at the top right to get rid of a disabled NPC the game won't refresh the tab so you have to click on the battle tab to refresh the list.

Cloaked NPCs simply won't appear on your battle tab if you've not got enough scan. The two unshared NPCs are Strylll Assassins (20 cloak) and Rogue Tech Collectors (60 cloak). None of the good stuff like TO Troop Carriers have any cloak.

As for shared NPCs, at low ranks I think it's the Dark Megacomplex which has cloak of about 200.

RTC are 50 cloak

Oops. Sorry. Thanks.

okay, so seems that it must have been a game glitch then.

From an empty battle tab I got 3 NPCs on the first 3 clicks, but my 4th didn't appear until I had clicked the tab 6 times in all.