Should we remove cloaks?

[Lythrilux]

Yes or no? It is argued that cloaks introduce a new type of almost guerilla warfare, even if there isn't much substance with uncloaks to catch your opponent off guard in order to dish out shed loads of damage.
However, it can also be argued that cloaks do more harm than good.
If things aren't going a players way, he can just cloak away from the fight, avoiding the interaction. Stupidly, countering this can be stupendously hard sometimes. Cloaks also seem to bring about a lot of trolling, as people just cloak up and constantly try to ram other players. The worst thing is that nothing can be done to counter cloaked ramming, unless you get a lucky Cd.
Certain factions have also recently been gifted infinite cloaks. Now, I'm not one to complain hugely about this, but I tend to see these said factions using this gift as a means to avoid interaction and the RP that I personally miss from them. Others have also claimed that they abuse them.
So, should we really keep cloaks within the game if they're simply used to avoid interaction, abuse and troll other players and be used as a cheap escape mechanic? Also, as with another poll I did, it seems the majority of the community does not want the introduction of a tool to balance the detrimental aspects of cloaks.
Discuss.

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[Deatlev]

I've seen a lot of trolls with cloaks. We shouldn't remove the cloaks, that would be awful bad.

I propose that we make it sanctionable to troll, or abuse cloaks.

[Lythrilux]

I've seen a lot of trolls with cloaks. We shouldn't remove the cloaks, that would be awful bad.

I propose that we make it sanctionable to troll, or abuse cloaks.

It already is. It's not helping stop the problem though.

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[.Gypsy.]

I've never had one (I don't have the kinda credits required to ever get one) but I voted no because I think there kinda cool, and the more different sort of stuff here the better.

Maybe if ramming in a cloak is not allowed (is it?) then the Admins can just make a post about it or something.

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[AshHill07]

I dunno if you could make it so you take a stupid amount of damage if you ram something whilst cloaked. Not enough to instantly kill the person hitting (Accidents happen) but enough so doing it constantly will end in being destroyed fairly quickly.

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[sindroms]

Make cloaks as a SRP requestable item, allowing admins to remove them if needed. Refund all currently used cloaks.

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[SMGSterlin]

We don't need anymore SRP crap...

Seriously.

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[Garrett Jax]

* Garrett Jax is waiting for the "Do you want SRP's to be deleted" thread to start.

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[Laura C.]

If you remove everything what can be abused or used for trolling, I guess there will be not much left for playing and having fun. When you remove cloaks, some people will still troll others in visible ships (as they do even now). Do you want to remove them as well?

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On a ragebreak. Or ragequit. Time will tell.

[SnakThree]

We don't need anymore SRP crap...

Seriously.

Do you play the game?

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