Cloaking Device, Re-looked at.

[Jinx]

we don t even have cloaks, we have a CLEAR denial of cloaking devices even.... and still we argue so much about it.

i am VERY much against cloaks of ANY kind now. - the gap between the "established" community members and the "no name, casual player" is already quite big in terms what is allowed and what not. - many a casual players are yelled at what established players take as their "privilege". ( ships, equipment etc )

furthermore, i dont see MUCH difference in ingame roleplays of the very established factions and the casual player to justify superior equipment. it would be detrimental to say point blank that ... for example "the phantoms should have it for their superior RP" ( is invokes questions of various kinds )

in general - not a single faction "deserves" such a device, cause no faction has really shown the responsibility needed for an item that can destabilize the balance of powers. - i agree with epyon that any cloaking device will cause MUCH more trouble than provide benefits for any roleplay.

it would be easiest to *forget* about cloaking in general. - it is not possible... and since it turned out that we cannot RP it... we should really really consider that its not possible at all. - so we are not even tempted to RP it.

i think that the only ships that should be able to cloak and NOT cause any balance nightmare are unarmed ships. - so i wouldn t have a problem with cloaking devices with nice effects - if it was limited to ships with NO weapons and - possibly..... NO shields at all ( PURE high end scout ships for RP only.... every player, no matter how superior the factions RP is tempted to exploit a cloak for pvp... only if cloaking ships are fully and 100% unarmed they are really used for roleplay )

but there we are - the camera ship can be used for that task.... .invisible to the eyes its hardly ever used for RP operations as a forward scout for raids. - so i suspect that any cloak that is asked for will be used for pvp rather than RP.

so i d say - make the camera ship a visible ship with a neat cloaking effect when it needs to ... and leave it the only ship that can cloak. - give it a trial maybe... and look how many people will RP with it.

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