The cloaking device you're talking about would completely destabilize balance. The Osiris used to be the most whored ship in the game; it hasn't been since the nerf but if we gave it a cloak, what could it do? Slip right up behind sitting fighters, uncloak, and pump two Mortars into them. They instantly explode. It can do this over and over and over. How are you going to get around THAT, hm? Allowing a cloak will produce DOZENS of situations like this. Hell, I RP my Bretonian Battleship (Outcast aligned) with a cloaking device (albeit, it rarely works, because cloaking devices are essentially metagaming). What do you think would happen if we actually implemented it? There wouldn't be ANY skill left (albeit, there's too much involved at the moment, but this isn't the way to reduce it), it'd simply be a game of Cloak, No Cloak. Where's the joy in that? Cloaks are currently restricted to RP, and that's what they SHOULD be: RP-only.
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