You couldn't be more wrong. Battleships have already 15 minutes of cloaking juice and there has never been a problem with a battleship being cloaked for too long and avoiding interaction. Claiming that is stupid. The only problem most people have with cloaks is the fact they got buttcloaked somewhen and are not complaining for the sake of complaining. People don't use cloaks to avoid interaction. People use the player list to avoid interaction and log only when it is convenient. The Cloak is a security measure for all people who can't be arsed to get playerlisted over and over again. If you think cloaks are bad, you should ask yourself how bad it would be to remove a feature as essential as cloaks. You'd piss off people with that and cause them to log even less, because matter of factly, not everyone wants to get certain encounters forced upon themselves. People should always have the choice whether they want to interact with people or not.
Removing cloaks will just make not logging at all, flying off-plane or the consequent use of the player list more likely.
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Apart from that, how many people have a permacloak? K'Hara, Wilde to a certain degree and Oracles. You won't find people having a lack of interaction with those. When they log, they are available for interaction.
