Developer Notice: Cloak Changes Trial Phase

[Trogdor]

After various suggestions from the community, cloak plugin is now adjusted so cloaked ships cannot talk in local and system chats anymore. This is only a test period to assess the impact of this change on the server gameplay and no decision is yet made. The trial phase will be running for two weeks from the time of this post and then this change will be re-discussed by the admins team to see whether we'd want to keep this change on Discovery GC or revert back to how it's been until now. Until then, use this thread for discussions, suggestions, and any possible bug reports regarding this change.

P.S: No, this does not include ammo-based cloaks. Those would have to wait for the next actual mod update.[/align]

Probably would have been better to wait until ammo based cloaks, because then you'd have more people actually dragging their cloaked ships out of the closet.

I still want to know, as I asked before the relevant thread was locked, what behavior(s) related to cloaks are undesirable to the admins? What sort of 'working as intended' state are they attempting to reach?

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