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Offline Lightning (OP)

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Re: Detecting PDC's
« Reply #15 on: January 23, 2015, 04:35:25 PM »
Already in the works :)
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Re: Detecting PDC's
« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2015, 11:55:23 AM »
Last I checked, PDCs were undetectable* until they fired, at which point they showed up like any other target.  The flavour text was thaty they were buried in/under mountains or otherwise behind hundreds of feet of rock.

*Except for their sensors, which they almost never turned on since planetary tracking was always better.
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Re: Detecting PDC's
« Reply #17 on: January 30, 2015, 02:11:02 PM »
Does planetary tracking count as an active sensor contact? I thought it didn't.
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Re: Detecting PDC's
« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2015, 02:43:19 PM »
Quote from: linkxsc on January 30, 2015, 02:11:02 PM
Does planetary tracking count as an active sensor contact? I thought it didn't.
Its a large passive sensor. Think Hubble.
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Re: Detecting PDC's
« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2015, 05:44:51 PM »
Quote from: Father Tim on January 30, 2015, 11:55:23 AM
Last I checked, PDCs were undetectable* until they fired, at which point they showed up like any other target.  The flavour text was thaty they were buried in/under mountains or otherwise behind hundreds of feet of rock.

*Except for their sensors, which they almost never turned on since planetary tracking was always better.
Nah, PDCs are detectable with active sensors like anything else.
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