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| What the AI will //not// do however, is cheating itself more resources. So it is possible to starve the AI out. As the AI never deconstructs ships or stations, it has no way of recovering, once it has no freighters and less than 160 Dilithium left (to build a new freighter). | What the AI will //not// do however, is cheating itself more resources. So it is possible to starve the AI out. As the AI never deconstructs ships or stations, it has no way of recovering, once it has no freighters and less than 160 Dilithium left (to build a new freighter). |
| ===== Cloaking Uses Energy ===== | ===== Cloaking Uses Energy ===== |
| Although not explicitly mentioned, when cloaking ships, an amount or 100 special weapon energy is used up at the moment of cloaking. Very often that does not really make a (big) difference, but for some units (e.g. the [[raptor|Raptor class]] of the Romulan faction) this means after decloaking they will not be able to use their [[special weapons|special weapon]] right away, as the energy is too low. Also when energy is drained and drops to zero, the ship may decloak momentarily, as it happens for instance in the [[Factions#Romulans]] mission [[single-player_campaign#tasks9|Call to Power]]. | Although not explicitly mentioned, when cloaking ships, an amount of 100 special weapon energy is used up at the moment of cloaking. Very often that does not really make a (big) difference, but for some units (e.g. the [[raptor|Raptor class]] of the Romulan faction) this means after decloaking they will not be able to use their [[special weapons|special weapon]] right away, as the energy is too low. Also when energy is drained and drops to zero, the ship may decloak momentarily, as it happens for instance in the [[Factions#Romulans]] mission [[single-player_campaign#tasks9|Call to Power]]. |
| ===== Phoenix Bug ===== | ===== Phoenix Bug ===== |
| The [[Rift Creator]] of the [[Phoenix]] has a control key definition bug. By default, all normal [[cloak|cloaks]] are used with the ''F5'' key. This also goes for the Phoenix, which actually has a cloak. But as its special weapons F-key slot is also activated by ''F5'', the cloak is not usable for human players. It is neither visible as a button nor can it be used with the F-key. Instead, the [[super_weapons|super weapon]] is triggered. The AI on the other hand can use both functions independently, which leaves the AI with the advantage of being able to send the Phoenix into battle cloaked. | The [[Rift Creator]] of the [[Phoenix]] has a control key definition bug. By default, all normal [[cloak|cloaks]] are used with the ''F5'' key. This also goes for the Phoenix, which actually has a cloak. But as its special weapons F-key slot is also activated by ''F5'', the cloak is not usable for human players. It is neither visible as a button nor can it be used with the F-key. Instead, the [[super_weapons|super weapon]] is triggered. The AI on the other hand can use both functions independently, which leaves the AI with the advantage of being able to send the Phoenix into battle cloaked. |
