Balance: Unkillable Battleships

[SnakThree]

During the massive furball in Manhattan yesterday, I was watching the LN battleships fight. In short: Lots of shooting, very little hitting.

The one LN dread that was effective was the one sneaking up behind people, uncloaking, blurting out some prewritten engagement notice and then immediately unloading point blank into his target. Then he'd run away, refuel, and do it again.

I don't like this. I don't like the temptation of 'hey, maybe if I exploit this, I might actually be effective for once'. Change this such that when you cloak, you lose your weapon pool, but you can still cruise, and you keep your shields.

Then fix bs missiles and give bs an anti-cruiser sniper turret plzkthxbai

That sounds like me, though I do most of RP before dropping engagement preset and uncloak, thus not really a bad sportsmanship, right?

Let's compare these devices used on Battleships:

Cloak is put on CM slot and is CDable. Using cloak deshields you. Takes 60 seconds to charge.
JumpDrive is put on special slot and is not disruptable. Using JumpDrive doesn't deshield you. Takes 30 seconds to charge.

Cloak has 4 disadvantages compared to JumpDrive. The only thing Cloak Device is good at is ambushing the crap out of slow or unsuspecting targets while JumpDrive is not able to do the same.

I am pretty sure that cloak is the lesser evil here.

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