Question about Plasma Storms/Magnetic Clouds etc.

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i've noticed that there are several types of non-colonizable grav wells with some pretty exotic looking names and graphics. These are your plasma storms, magnetic clouds, etc.

My question is this: do these types of grav wells have any effect on your ships or are they just for show?

I've tried to examine this myself a little bit and haven't come up with anything yet. I haven't looked very carefully, but i did briefly monitor things like rate of hull, shield, and anti-matter recovery in a Plasma Storm and it appeared normal. I also checked ship movement speed, which appeared normal. Ability cooldowns were normal too.

Does anyone know for sure? Its possible my observations were inaccurate of course or the effect is something I hadn't considered and didn't look for. Does anyone know for sure?
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Magnetic clouds disable all abilities, and plasma storms disable fighter/bomber launch
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Actually Plasma storms don't stop launch, They will prevent launch if your Fighters/bombers are in the Ship but if you Phase in with them they can fly around freely, so really there is no drawback to plasma storms. Magnetic clouds are great fi your enemy is Support/Capital ship heavy
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Actually Plasma storms don't stop launch, They will prevent launch if your Fighters/bombers are in the Ship but if you Phase in with them they can fly around freely, so really there is no drawback to plasma storms.


That's actually a bug :P They are supposed to be grounded with no exceptions, and I was told it'll be fixed ;)