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) 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.

Note that some scans have random interference on them; the data returned will not be entirely accurate.

Scans available

Planet Scan

Returns general information about a planet. This scan costs 1000 of each resource.

Surface Analysis Scan

Reveals constructions on a target planet. This scan costs 2000 of each resource.

Technology Analysis Scan

Identifies the Research Technology present on a target planet. This scan costs 3000 of each resource.

Unit Scan

This scan gives you an overview of all ships a certain planet has. This scan costs 4000 of each resource. Unit scans are inaccurate, giving numbers between 20% more or less than the target actually has for each ship.

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 4 ticks. This scan costs 5000 of each resource.

Jumpgate Probe

This scan can only be used if you have a fleet travelling towards the planet you are trying to scan. It will reveal any other fleets travelling to the same planet, both hostile and friendly. This scan costs 6000 of each resource.

Fleet Analysis

This advanced version of the Unit Scan can only be used towards another planet when it has sent a hostile fleet towards you. This will show the fleet composition heading at your planet, although it will not be able to decrypt the fleet's orders. This scan costs 7000 of each resource. Fleet Analyses are inaccurate to the same degree as Unit Scans.

• Please note you only get a list of ships a Xandathrii player has in total, not what they have sent. A fleet analysis scan on a Xandathrii player will fail.

Scan Success

In order for your scan to be successful, the following statement must be correct:

your_amps - their_distorters >= 0