You put the device on your ships and you bask in the glory of your higher passive evasion bonus.

thank you

The evasion bonus should be higher than the current 20% I think. Currently I'm finding it hard to find a reason to include a cloak in my ship designs at all, given the other options to choose from.

Check and balances. 20% is a lot for high evasion ships.

maybe cloak should make ships invisible to other ships unless they have high enough sensor tec.

Maybe. Now to find a way to make it work :)

I have been brainstorming this for a while since in the show, cloak can never realistically be utilized during combat except in a few scenarios. However, there's no real way to implement that in the game. Instead, I wonder if the cloaking device can just give cloaked vessels a "first strike" capability, and effectively change up the way Romulan and Klingon fleets move around.

Normally, when warping into a system, you essentially move to the edge of one system, and then you appear in the edge of another system, with a warp wind down time.

For ships with a cloaking device, would it be possible for them, provided they have line of sight, to warp directly on top of an enemy fleet in another system without winddown time?

This more or less allows a Romulan or Klingon to simulate the Picard/Tomalak standoff* - two fleets are currently engaged, one superior to the other. The cloaked fleet warps directly on top of the fight, tipping the balance in favor of the previously losing side. But ofc, "they've always been there, but have just now decloaked."

*Picard v. Tomalak:

From a game engine point of view - no, there is no way to do that.

From a lore point of view with current game engine. It could make FTL retreat available very quickly or immediately.

i could suggest thing to you guys all day, but the truth is the mod is epic

Feel free Erasmus, we always need more good ideas!

and you guys have better attitudes then the alpha mod guy....

I have no idea about the behavior of Alpha+ mod, I do enjoy his work, no idea how he is as a person. I do know we're more people. That's already a more laid-back and less stressful attitude. Not that we're working slowly, but you get what I mean.

I do