Waves

Description

Waves are used to gather information on other planets through the use of scans. You must have built at least one Wave Amplifier on the Construction page to be able to use scans. The more Wave Amplifiers you have, the better the chances of your scans getting through. Similarly, the more Wave Distorters you build, the lower the chance of scans getting through on your planet.

For those who have played Planetarion before: Wave Amplifiers are no longer used up with successful scans, and there are no Asteroid Scans this round either. You can initiate roids directly from the Mining page.

Another new feature is the use of stored scans. Any successful scan your results will be stored (max. 50 shown on waves page) on the PA server, and can be accessed for the next 24 hours through the Waves Page. You can share the scans with other people by giving them the URL of the saved scan.

Initially, you will only be able to use Planet Scans. You can have your planet's scientists develop new scans on the Research page.

Scans available

Planet Scan

Planet Scan Returns general information about a planet. This scan includes general information about then number of guards and agents the planet has as well as what the planet has in production for each factory type. The scan indicates whether production is light, medium, or heavy as a percentage of the planet's total resources in production. Light indicates that the planet has less then 34 of its resources in the given production area, medium indicates that the planet has between 34 and 66 percent of its resources in a given area of production and heavy indicates that the planet has greater then 66 percent of its total resources in a given area of production. This scan costs 1000 of each resource.

Landing Scan

This scan works only when you have an ETA 1 fleet to attack/defend a target and displays the number of attacking/defending fleets at ETA 1. It ignores distorters This scan costs 2000 of each resource

Development Scan

This scanr eplaces both of the Surface Analysis Scan / Technology Analysis Scan A Combined scan that shows the constructions and the research of the target planet (same output as the old type but in one scan) This scan costs 3000 of each resource

Unit Scan

This scan gives you an overview of all ships the target planet has, excluding Xandathrii ships. This scan costs 4000 of each resource. Unit scans have random interference on them of up to 20% higher or lower than the actual number. Therefore, the data returned will not be entirely accurate.

News Scan

The News Scan will try to intercept news transmissions at the target planet. Due to the rate of news becoming available at another planet, it will not show any news entries from the last 3 ticks. This means that when attacking to find out information on potential in galaxy defense a news scan must be done at eta 1. This scan costs 5000 of each resource.

Incoming Scan

Renamed Fleet (Analysis) Scan "Incoming Scan" for clarity This advanced version of the Unit Scan can only be used towards another planet when it has sent a fleet towards you. This will show the fleet composition heading at your planet. This scan costs 6000 of each resource. A incoming scan does not show Cloaked Xandathrii ships except in total numbers at the bottom of the scan.

Jumpgate Probe

This scan will reveal any fleets traveling to the same planet, both hostile and friendly. This scan costs 7000 of each resource. =

Advanced Unit Scan

This scan gives you an overview of all ships the target planet has, including cloaked ships. It is 100% accurate. This scan costs 8000 of each resource.

Scan Success

For a scan to work, you must have more Wave Amplifiers than your target has Wave Distorters. In mathematical terms,

The following statement must be correct:

your_amps - their_distorters >= 0

As a new r15 feature, you can scan any galmate or any member of your alliance, regardless of the number of Distorters.

Alliance scanners

Oftentimes, one or more members of an alliance are 'scanners'. They build a lot of Wave Amplifiers (meaning their scans would be more likely to succeeed) and focus their research towards the waves branch of the tech tree. 'Scanners' generally distribute scans to all alliance members. You can often request a specific scan from such a person via the alliance's IRC channel. As a new PAN feature, 'scanner' will be an official alliance position, and such a person's scans will be paid for out of the alliance fund as opposed to from that player's personal resource stash.