There are currently 342 large cloaks on the GC server, with 139 being on transports and the remaining 203 on capital ships. Since it'd be a considerable workload to convert the transport cloaks after the release, it'd be up to the admins to decide whether they'd be willing to do it or not. I'm only talking with my developer hat on here.
This then suggests that none of the Cloaks are on Base, which I know, for a fact, is incorrect.
Quote:This means a transport with Mk III would effectively have roughly the same cloaking capabilities as a capital with Mk II Adv, but at the same time would have to sacrifice some cargo to effectively cloak, and traders would have to pick between higher profit margin or more effective cloaking.
With the current set up Transports that are trading, with cloaks, have to sacrifice Cargo space for the fuel anyway.
As for those Traders that use the Cloak to 'sneak past' areas, this isn't going to affect them as they balance the Cargo profit vs the loss of space due to carrying Fuel anyway. They only ever use short Cloaking times.
Another group of people that use the Cloaks in Transport Ships are the Pirates that use it to escape or jump upon unsuspecting prey. These are generally also short time Cloaking uses.
The last Group are those that use them as Spy Ships. Those Naval Forces that use them to scout out ahead of attacking Fleets, Police using this ability to track unsuspecting Smugglers to garner information. This Group will be heavily restricted with this implementation.
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