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VB6 Aurora => VB6 Mechanics => Topic started by: Laurence on July 17, 2008, 09:06:55 AM

Title: Tactical Intelligence Window
Post by: Laurence on July 17, 2008, 09:06:55 AM

Can somebody explain exactly how to use it?  The civilian ship center built a colony ship my home system, currently showing as an unknown contact ("Unknown #19 T100 (TP:615) 69km/s") on the system display.

I click the Contacts tab and it is on the list.  I select it and hit the Query ID button and I get the Tactical Intelligence window.

But this area is completely blank. There are no entries, either in Current Class Members of the All Current Contacts tabs.

What should I be doing?

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Post by: Steve Walmsley on July 17, 2008, 03:15:24 PM

The tactical intelligence window will only show ships and races where you have carried out an active scan. Try detected the civilian ship with an active sensor and see if that fills in the TacIntel window.

Steve

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Post by: Laurence on July 18, 2008, 09:02:33 AM

Ah, that did the trick.  Thank you.  Is it deliberate that only Active Scans show up there?  Because of the possibility of tech data scans?

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Post by: SteveAlt on July 23, 2008, 01:47:42 PM

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Ah, that did the trick.  Thank you.  Is it deliberate that only Active Scans show up there?  Because of the possibility of tech data scans?

It's because only active scans can identify the class of a ship, and therefore the original builder

Steve

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Post by: Charlie Beeler on July 23, 2008, 02:38:25 PM

Pehaps active transponder data could be added.