Posted by: dammrebel
« on: December 18, 2008, 10:56:50 AM »Quote from: "Hawkeye"
Quote from: "welchbloke"OK thanks very much,
Are either considerecd essential? I can see some uility for the Thermal Sensors allowing ships a limited detection capability without going active.
Welchbloke
Are they essential? Of course they are!
The situation in Aurora (as I see it as a newby) is very likely to todays submarines. Yes, you can go active and see the enemy, if he is in range, but any enemy with passives within 10x that range will see *you* once you do this
You can also build missiles with thermal or EM seeking warheads, so you could be blown away without ever knowing you´re under attack.
Flying around with active sensors all the time is not something I would recomend!
Yeah that was the way I saw it, but I've read a lot of David Weber's books and maybe my ideal of space combat has been colored by it.