Steve-
I'm having a problem, but I'm not sure if it is a bug or a feature, so I thought I'd put this here. I've encountered this before, but I don't fully understand the sensor rules so I've always suspected that I'm doing something wrong.
The situation is as follows. I have a PDC equipped with anti-missile sensors as follows:
Active Sensor Strength: 240
Sensor Size: 15 Sensor HTK: 1
Primary Mode: Resolution: 0.2 Maximum Range: 480,000 km
As I understand it, this sensor should detect the smallest missile at 480,000 km's, and will detect larger missiles at longer ranges.
Missiles are currently incoming towards this PDC. They are size 20 missiles, and have been detected by the side with the PDC. They show up on the system map as follows: "Unknown #1551 T20x5 10,000 km/s"
When I go to the contacts tab on the system map, the incoming missile salvoes show up here as well. They do not, however, show up as available targets on the Combat Assignments window.
This is somewhat frustrating. I wouldn't have to worry about it if this race relied solely on lasers in point blank mode for its defense, but this race uses anti-missiles as well, which I have to manually target on the incoming missiles, but I can't target the incoming missiles if they don't show up as available targets. The missiles are at 240,000 Km's right now, and as they are size twenty and at half the maximum range for detection of the smallest missile I don't understand what is going on.
Kurt