Hound and Ship Trails
Flying ships leave a trail. This update adds Hound, a scout that can read those trails.
Ship trails
Every hex a ship flies spends energy. That energy lights a short trail on the map. The trail fades over time.
You only see foreign trails. Your own ships do not show this way. A commander with a Hound of their own can still read yours.
Hound
Hound unlocks with Signal Tracing after Line Warfare. Inside its 30 hex scanner range you can see trails on the map.
Loud and quiet
Trails appear bigger and more vibrant the more intense the trail is. A bigger ship or a ship blasting on Sprint will leave a bigger trail than a small cruising ship.
You can see a big fleet possibly for a week whereas a small ship's trail fades within a day.
Hover or tap a patch of cloud to see Intensity.
Time and nebulae
In open space trail strength halves every 20 hours. A loud trail lasts longer than a quiet one. Inside a nebula the same trail halves every 2 hours. Crossing a cloud is a way to drop off the map faster. Ships also fly at half speed in nebula hex so that trip takes longer.
More on sensors: scanners.
Clear skies, commanders.
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