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New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: 11sparky11 on March 22, 2014, 10:52:34 AM

Title: Commercial Passive Sensors
Post by: 11sparky11 on March 22, 2014, 10:52:34 AM

Can a passive EM/Thermal sensor be made to be commercial like an engine can or are they always military? Thanks.

Title: Re: Commercial Passive Sensors
Post by: sublight on March 22, 2014, 11:11:09 AM

Any sensor 1 HS or smaller is considered commercial. This is true for both active and passive sensors.

Title: Re: Commercial Passive Sensors
Post by: 11sparky11 on March 23, 2014, 04:14:26 AM

Ah thanks.

Title: Re: Commercial Passive Sensors
Post by: MarcAFK on March 23, 2014, 06:23:31 AM

You can get alot of utility out of a size 1 Active sensor even in the early game, options include a 500 HS sensor for detecting commercial ships (>25,000 tons), or perhaps a higher resolution sensor which could detect a destroyer at 10 million kilometers, or hell even resolution 1 you get a million kilometers which is great for detecting beam ships or fighters which may be sneaking up on your commerce.
Of course personally I like to equip my freghters with a resolution 16 sensor, for er, detecting FACs which might be sneaking around 'preying' on my ships.