Posted by: Andrew
« on: Yesterday at 09:44:32 AM »It sounds like you are using EM, and Thermal passives, these will never give any information other than the Thermal/EM signature of the population and ships present. Many spopilers will have no planatery EM or Thermal signature or only one of around 10. IF you have a large EM/Thermal singature in the thousands or more you have a real NPR population. To get passive intelligence gathering you need ELINT Modules with a long enough detection range against the EM Signature.
With active sensors you can get the tonnage of ships and ground forces (the ground forces tends to be an understimate if they are dug in) however it is almost certain your long range active sensors are useless. You need to be able to detect very small targets, long range sensors with high resolutions do not detect resolution 1 contacts except at point blank range. You probably do not have a Res 1 sensor with a 100 million km range if you do , please tell me how big it is and what techs you have for active sensors as I want to be impressed!
So to get the ground forces signature you have to be close. A missile with an active sensor could spot them but I doubt it would get close enough without being shot down.
Once you have the ground forces on Actives you will not be able to identify the amount of STO weapons until they open fire.
With active sensors you can get the tonnage of ships and ground forces (the ground forces tends to be an understimate if they are dug in) however it is almost certain your long range active sensors are useless. You need to be able to detect very small targets, long range sensors with high resolutions do not detect resolution 1 contacts except at point blank range. You probably do not have a Res 1 sensor with a 100 million km range if you do , please tell me how big it is and what techs you have for active sensors as I want to be impressed!
So to get the ground forces signature you have to be close. A missile with an active sensor could spot them but I doubt it would get close enough without being shot down.
Once you have the ground forces on Actives you will not be able to identify the amount of STO weapons until they open fire.