Advanced Equipment - Cloaks, Cloak Disruptors, Jump Drives, Docking modules

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Advanced Equipment

Last Updated: 8th February 2018

Contents:

• Cloaking Devices
• Cloak Disruptors
• Jump Drives
• Hyperspace Scanners
• Docking Modules - Tutorial halted until full plugin rewrite

Originally written by @Skorak.
Updated by @Tunicle

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Cloaking Devices

Cloaking Devices are advanced Equipment allowing your ship to be undetectable both visually and by scanners. You don't vanish, meaning you can still crash into objects. An active cloaking device deactivates the shields of the ship using it. Cloaking Devices also consume Cloaking Batteries while in use(even while charging). Any ship with a CM Slot is capable of replacing that one with a Cloaking Device. Cloaking Devices are illegal or require registration in some houses, check the respective laws. A Cloak can be disrupted by shooting the ship with a CD during charge or with a Cloak Disruptor within range.

Notes: Cloaking Devices must be built on PoBs or in the case of Nomad ones, bought on their respective installations.
All cloaks have a cooldown time of 120 seconds. This cooldown only applies when you are hit with a cloak disruptor.
People who are cloaked can be detected by listening for a 'humm' that is emitted to all players within 3k of a cloaked ship.

But not every ship can mount every Cloaking Device. These are the limits for the various ship types:

Name	Max Cargo Space	Used Cargo Space	Charge time	Consumption	Max cloak duration	Shiptype(s)
Batteries used:	Cloak Batteries
Light Cloaking Device	480	10	20	2/sec	8:00 Min.	Snubcraft, Light Gunboats
Cloaking Device Mk2	900	200	20	2/sec	7:00 Min.	Gunboats, Cruisers
Cloaking Device Mk2 Advanced	1800	450	60	1/sec	15:40 Min.	Heavy cruisers, Battleships
Batteries used:	HeavyCloak Batteries
Cloaking Device Mk3	-	600(+2 each bat)	20	1/sec	16:20 Min.	Transports
Batteries used:	Nomad Cloaking Device Batteries
Nomad Lesser Cloak	480	10	30	1/sec	16:10 Min.	Snubcraft
Nomad Greater Cloak	900	120	60	1/sec	15:40 Min.	Gunboats, "Irra" Nomad Purifier
Nomad Superior Cloak	-	450	120	K'Hara Only	Infi-	Battleships, "Irra" Greater Nomad Purifier

Cloaking Devices can be activated and deactivated with the /cloak command or by binding it to a key in the settings.

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Cloak Disruptors

Cloak Disruptors are advanced equipment allowing you to pull ships out of cloak and keep them from cloaking again. They replace the CM Slot on a given ship. A Cloak disruptor cannot be used together with a cloaking device.

Cloak Disruptors must be built on PoBs.

But not every ship can mount every Cloak Disruptor. There is limits for the various ship types:

Name	Range	Cooldown time	Cargo usage	Shiptype(s)
Cloak Disruptor Type-1	3000m	30 sec	10	Fighters, Transports, Gunboats
Cloak Disruptor Type-2	6000m	60 sec	200	Destroyers, Cruisers and Battlecruisers
Cloak Disruptor Type-3	9000m	90 sec	450	Battleships, Carriers and Dreadnoughts

Cloak Disruptors can be activated by using the /disruptor command or by binding it to a key in the settings. Using it will consume 50 Cloaking Device Batteries. Ships are disrupted for as long as the cooldown lasts.

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Jump Drives

Jump Drives are devices that can be mounted on capital ships to move across Sirius within an instant. There are two methods of jumping with a capital ship. A 'blind jump' where you could end up anyway, or a jump with co-ordinates that takes you to a specific spot.

Notes: Jump Drives must be built on PoBs.
A Jump Drive charge can be disabled with a CD.
Transports cannot be jumped.

There are three different types of Jump Drive:

Name	Charge Time	Minimum Amount Jump Batteries	Requied Powercore	Can Jump Other Ships?
Jump Drive MK2	60 seconds	420	1875000	No
Jump Drive MK3	30 seconds	450	6000000	No
Jump Drive MK4	3:45 minutes	450	4500000	Yes (1k range)

Jumpdrives have various commands. The main two are /charge and /jump. Both of these can be mapped to a key in the options menu. There are others that will be covered in the Hyperspace section.

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Hyperspace Scanners

Jump Drives have the ability to jump to specific point in space. For this to be possible, the jump ship will require coordinates. There are two ways of doing this, a hyperspace scanner, and a hyperspace matrix.

Notes: Both the Matrix and Scanners must be built on a PoB.
Coordinates created by scanners will lose their accuracy after 30 days. They will still work but might fling a few hundred clicks from the original target.

There are three different types of Hyperspace Scanner, and one type of Matrix:

Name	Scan Time	Cargo Required	Fuel Required	Powercore Required	Accuracy
Hyperspace Scanner MK1	100 seconds	800	600 Mox 700 Oil 700 H-Fuel 800 Deuterium 800 Helium3	100000	90k within scan location
Hyperspace Scanner MK2	100 seconds	600	600 Mox 700 Oil 700 H-Fuel 800 Deuterium 800 Helium3	100000	50k within scan location
Hyperspace Scanner MK3	1000 seconds	400	10000 Mox 11670 Oil 11670 H-Fuel 13350 Deuterium 13350 Helium3	100000	25k within scan location
Name	Fuel	Cargo Required	Accuracy
Hyperspace Matrix MK1	Jump Drive Batteries	25	5k of vessel

The scanning begins once you type /survey. Once the period begins, you cannot move otherwise you'll stop the scanning. Once the scanning is complete you'll get a long string of characters. You'll need to write this down or copy it from the dsace.log file.

Once you've got this you can use the /setcoords command on the jumpship and supplying the coordinates,
the /jump command will now take you directly to where you scanned (within the radius of what you scanner allowed).

Using the /beacon command on a ship with a Hyperspace Matrix mounted will allow any ship with a charged jumpdrive to jump to it. Using the /jumpbeacon playername command will then jump the ship to the beacon ship (replace playername with the name of the ship that has activated the beacon). Beware, there is only a 30 second period where you can jump to the beacon, so timing is important.

(I am a little unsure about the amount of fuel required for the Mk3, can anyone correct me on that if it's wrong?)

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Docking modules seem to be operational once more as it used to be, IE:
Snubs can dock by selecting the equipped ship and pressing F3, and the carrier can allow docking by selecting the snub and typing /allowdock

you can view docked ships by doing /listdocked and forcibly jettison ships with /jettison <shipname>

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FEEDBACK

[[M.C.C.]]

Hello! I'm new to Discovery FL and i really enjoy playing,, but i have no idea how to get the advanced equipment. How do I obtain them?

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[Schxer]

Hello! I'm new to Discovery FL and i really enjoy playing,, but i have no idea how to get the advanced equipment. How do I obtain them?

They are made in player-owned bases or POBs.
You can buy them from other players or player-owned bases that sell them, or craft them yourself in a POB.