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I know there are some posts about this but I have the tech for the +150 cloak planet structure and I was wondering if it was even worth it to put this on planets?
If cloak works like I think then +150 is almost nothing since almost everyone has over 600 scan.


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first, not everyone keeps scan modules on their ship all the time... esp if they can still drop themselves down to 1 scan so that RTCs don't show up on the BT

second, 150 cloak vs 600 scan will give the planet a 25% chance of hiding even if it was located on the first roll of a planet scan

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600 scan?? that's normal running for a low rank.. but planet scanning is way different.. 6000+ scan would be very conservative for anyone over rank 300 doing a single planet scan run.

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That's what I mean. Even if I assume 4k scan which is about what I had last time I scanned. Then 150 is like less than 5% chance of staying cloaked if someone scans it right? If so that's useless vs another defensive structure.


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Greystar55042 wrote:
That's what I mean. Even if I assume 4k scan which is about what I had last time I scanned. Then 150 is like less than 5% chance of staying cloaked if someone scans it right? If so that's useless vs another defensive structure.

aye, 150c = 3.75% hidden to 4K scan, 96.25% visible to 4K scan

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That's what I mean. Even if I assume 4k scan which is about what I had last time I scanned. Then 150 is like less than 5% chance of staying cloaked if someone scans it right? If so that's useless vs another defensive structure.



A long standing debate. For myself (and the majority feels the same I think).. the size of cloaking structures vs the amount of cloak given is not good enough when compared to the def/atk structure and what they give. I go atk/def in lieu of cloak except for special cases.. and most of the cloak in those cases is done thru artifacts... and passive planet abilities (again more artifacts).

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There is a tradeoff though, cluster missiles make short work of def structures. On worlds that I think someone might think are good enough to drop them on, I make sure there's a decent stealth rating on it. research stealth structures are so sadthough, you don't get even a decent value per space used until the +250 ones, which I think are 5 space. There's tons of artifacts that do close to 100 per space.

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