What is Military Scanner Filter?

ArkanoiD · Post by **ArkanoiD** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 12:32 am

Purchased one, does not seem to do anything

Post by **Eric Walch** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:17 am

Purchased one, does not seem to do anything

It is not ment that a player can buy one. But there is code that the player can use it. This is probably some unfinished work that is not fully tested.

What it should do is make ships unvisible on rader. For NPC ships that have them it works well. (the player does not see them).
With the player it is automaticaly activated, but I could not detect that ships see me any different when I have it. By the code I should be undetectable for them like cloacking.

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:25 am

I was under the impression that it was an implementation to over-rule the Scanner Jammer.

Captain Hesperus

Post by **Eric Walch** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:02 pm

I was under the impression that it was an implementation to over-rule the Scanner Jammer.

You are right, I was reading to fast. What I sayd was abaut the military jammer (or better: Military Anti-Scanner Countermeasures (MASC'M)).

The filter does undo that. You should be able to see ships with the jammer active. This is also not buyable for the player but should work for him.

I just tested this with a ship with military scanner jammer active. Whit the antijammer active you can see the ships on your rader but in a greyish color. So its working. I'm just woundering why it not used in an OXP.

ArkanoiD · Post by **ArkanoiD** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:14 pm

Captain Hesperus wrote:
I was under the impression that it was an implementation to over-rule the Scanner Jammer.

Captain Hesperus

Never seen one as well nor NPCs using it.

ArkanoiD · Post by **ArkanoiD** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:16 pm

Eric Walch wrote:
I was under the impression that it was an implementation to over-rule the Scanner Jammer.
You are right, I was reading to fast. What I sayd was abaut the military jammer (or better: Military Anti-Scanner Countermeasures (MASC'M)).

The filter does undo that. You should be able to see ships with the jammer active. This is also not buyable for the player but should work for him.

Black Monks sold me one!

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 3:13 pm

ArkanoiD wrote:
Eric Walch wrote:
I was under the impression that it was an implementation to over-rule the Scanner Jammer.
You are right, I was reading to fast. What I sayd was abaut the military jammer (or better: Military Anti-Scanner Countermeasures (MASC'M)).

The filter does undo that. You should be able to see ships with the jammer active. This is also not buyable for the player but should work for him.
Black Monks sold me one!

That must be some kind of bug. The BlackMonks stations have a very high TechLevel, but not high enough to make these "Easter Egg" items buyable, that are actually nowhere used in the game. The most educated guess is that either Aegidian planned to do something with them, so he implemented them in 1.65, but never actually got around to do it, or some of the OXP scripters planned to do something with them, so Aegidian on request implemented them in 1.65, but the requester never actually got around to do it.

Why an equivalent_tech_level of 15 is sufficient to offer items that have a techlevel of 99, is a mystery to me. In which version of the game did you buy it? If it was in 1.70, then this may be an indication that something is still broken with equivalent_tech_level (which was completely broken in 1.69.1).