Posted by: davidb86
« on: June 05, 2020, 01:11:16 PM »All's well that ends well
It doesn't necessarily. But when I know the strength of the sensor and its resolution, the only missing factor for determining the range is the sensitivity. It was very safe to assume that the alien sensor sensitivity was not vastly inferior to my own. So knowing that their sensor resolution was finer than my ship, it was clear that I'd been on their screens....Also this means they've been watching my intel boat sit 4m km away for their planet for these many days and done nothing about it at all. That seems a bit odd, but who knows with these aliens.
Maybe not. Just because you detected their sensor does not mean that they detected you.
...Also this means they've been watching my intel boat sit 4m km away for their planet for these many days and done nothing about it at all. That seems a bit odd, but who knows with these aliens.
I've tested that SM-ing sensors on a ship in orbit, I didn't need to move it around. If your ship has only passive thermal sensors and the ELINT sensor, and you detect the EM signature of something, that probably means you're getting the intelligence data from it.My ship isn't in orbit. If it was in orbit, it would almost certainly be a debris field on account of being at range zero of 30,000 tons of alien hulls. I wouldn't think that's making the difference, but who knows.
So I SM-edited in my current compact EM sensor (and took out a big chunk of the fuel allowance) on my intel ship. It detects the targets. I'm still not seeing any evidence of intel points accruing after a few (grindingly slow) days of time advancing. The wiki claims the expectation should be one point per day?I've tested that SM-ing sensors on a ship in orbit, I didn't need to move it around. If your ship has only passive thermal sensors and the ELINT sensor, and you detect the EM signature of something, that probably means you're getting the intelligence data from it.
The population intel points are still reporting zero. I'm not sure where I'd even find the points counted against "AS #8", but I'm certainly not seeing any reported.
Going to try flying away and then flying back, though I would be a bit surprised if that helped.
So 'they don't work as sensors' seems like burying the lede to me - the more important fact I'm seeing is that you can get intel without needing to care about the (broken) ELINT strength, because another EM sensor can do the detecting in their stead?You need a working EM sensor paired with the ELINT sensor to make it work.
I've got aliens. Probably spoilers, since they're a couple large apparently stationary craft parked over a mostly empty world on year 18 of the game.
My scout fighter found they had a GPS 189 signature. I want to know more about that, naturally.
So I built a <1000 ton ELINT ship and sent it in close enough to get the planet inside the "vs ELINT signature 100" circle on the map. As others have reported, this doesn't result in the alien ships showing up as contacts. (The ship has no actual sensors - it's just an ELINT package with propulsion and crew compartments.)
I've had it hang around for a few days now. I can't figure out how to tell whether it's actually doing anything.
I could move it even closer and try to get the colony in range, since I know where there's a display for population intelligence points. But I'm afraid that experiment might be prematurely terminated by irritable alien defenders.
Can anyone cast some light on what's happening and what I need to do?