Nomad infinite cloak

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It's fun. Very peaceful. Not being shot at by the ridiculously powerful NPCs and gates is probably the best part.

So far, the delay on the snub cloak seems a little low. 30 seconds isn't a long time. A 400 m/s freighter can't catch a Nomad snub cruising away at 350 unless it's within about 4k range when the Nomad types /cloak.

Up it to a minute, maybe. It's supposed to not be used to flee after all.

It has great trolling potential for those who are into that kind of thing, and that's why "we" (that being K'Hara) already have some rules in place for faction members' usage of cloak.

How indies end up using it remains to be seen.

Oh, and..

Or never actually decloak to begin with.

How is your gameplay affected by this, exactly? The only way Nomads that never uncloak affect you is.. Nothing. You don't see them. If they're K'Hara, you won't find them typing anything to you either.

You can see them on the player list. Oh no. How very inconvenient for you that they're clogging it up so you have to scroll more.

Edit: Just saw this.

joining the 4 unlawfuls again who were now all shooting my single VHF.

There's a reason that first engagement message said "Many". It's because there were five of you, including a full-flak Carrier and a Solaris Liberty Gunboat.

You then tried to missile spam my CM-less (because cloak) Assassin to death, so I cloaked again. Because you weren't paying attention to my shield not getting back up for 30 seconds (can't blame me for this, can you?), I could cloak and wait until there was a better moment to engage once again and finish the job I started.

If you think it's "poor form" to deal some death when the ship you're flying is called an "Assassin".. Well, yeah. Not to mention that specific Nomad has been shot at by Libertonian lawfuls and their mercenaries time and time again. It kind of makes sense to shoot back at them once in a while.

If you expected me to type you a novel to enter an ongoing engagement, sorry to disappoint.

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