(05-29-2013, 01:44 PM)Xelon Wrote: The cloak wasn't made for people to autoescape whenever they have a cloak on their battlesip or transport.
The way it works now is just fine.
But on cruisers and fighters it was used for escape only, really. (before the cloak nerf)
There is a reason we had sort of a taboo on cloaked cruisers in our RNC raids - because those were too vulnerable to missile spam, had rather short cloaking time, very limited tactical use for offensive operations and cloak was falling off after several BS missile hits.
Cruiser cloak is only good for those who either do not face enemy battleships/battlecruisers, or doesn't plan to. I.e., Piracy and anti-piracy activities, for those who plan to run away when they encounter enemy battlegroup.
Devs fixed the fighter issue giving it 3-4 seconds cloaking time (so you have a chance to activate it before someone realises), but if I'm not mistaken, cruiser one is still same.
The way battleship cloaks are/were used is totally different from cruiser and fighter one, obviously - mainly it comes from huge difference in light and heavy battleship performances at different distances (it's like, you have 10% to win at one distance, and 90% chance to win at another one), huge difference between DPS of a battleship with drained powercore and fully charged one (as a result of cruise drain), and inability to thrust, making it hard to quickly maneuver through the battlefield.
