Author Topic: Cloaked Tractoring Etherjets?  (Read 786 times)

Offline Wanderer

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Cloaked Tractoring Etherjets?
« on: January 30, 2012, 09:19:21 pm »
Are Etherjets supposed to be able to tractor AND cloak at the same time?  Well, I'll admit, that's a pretty nice buff if that was the outcome of the 'buffing' discussion... it's also a bit brutal.   :o
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Re: Cloaked Tractoring Etherjets?
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2012, 09:39:52 pm »
That's how they always were. But, something can't cloak and shoot at the same time. Previously they had a tractor range low enough that they would always shoot at whatever they had tractored, thus negating the benefit.
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Re: Cloaked Tractoring Etherjets?
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2012, 09:48:33 pm »
That's how they always were. But, something can't cloak and shoot at the same time. Previously they had a tractor range low enough that they would always shoot at whatever they had tractored, thus negating the benefit.

Ah hah!  That makes more sense.  Thanks!
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Re: Cloaked Tractoring Etherjets?
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2012, 09:49:13 pm »
You bet!
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Re: Cloaked Tractoring Etherjets?
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2012, 10:15:39 pm »
Heh, no more need to power them down to keep them cloaked?  I'll keep that in mind.  :p
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