I like active Nomads, an dangerous space.
The large problem is the permacloak.
It is an absolute killer for interaction.
I was witness to two of the New London killing sprees after it seems Khara members got HQ permission to uncloak-engage everything. What it resulted in was a silly slaughter of defenseless ships, and a cloaking away when someone arrived that could actually fight, or a "stay cloaked" if something powerful came around.
This kind of "interaction" left the inferior attack victims unhappy (they had zero chance), the search parties that tried to find and attack the Nomads were disillusioned and logged off (they had zero chance), and the whole encounter just proved that permacloaks are bad. In the end, not even the cloaky-players seemed content (they had zero challenge), I had the impression from the Teamspeak conversation.
I don't know what your policy is at the moment, but if you go on like these 2 days, I am pretty sure not only IDs wil be changed (which is a necessary 1st step - also for other IDs), but also harmful permacloaks are going to vanish.
I'll quote a typical things from an emergency channel:
Quote:[1/1/2016 2:42:29 PM] X: K'Hara|Nergal New London Bretonia 49 0 0 17 minutes, 16 seconds
Kuzunoha'|Aoi New London Bretonia 47 0 0 45 minutes, 10 seconds
Mendez|Aoi New London Bretonia 51 0 0 54 minutes, 17 seconds
[1/1/2016 6:23:28 PM] Y: the sad thing... likely cloaked.
[1/1/2016 6:24:09 PM] Z: i'd stake my house on it
[1/1/2016 6:25:05 PM] Y: if you have them engaged, call
Then I bring something. But hunting permacloaked stuff... is a no-go [...]
I do not think that the permacloak factions should be allowed to decide completely when they want to interact (most likely: when they know they win), and when they avoid interaction easily (when they would lose). No faction should have the tools to dictate the battlefield like this, and - more importantly - reduce interaction in an already difficult situation.
Yes, the Nomad and Wilde cloaks will have to be revisited then. But cloaks need change anyway because there is no use for them that is not somehow bad in the sense of gameplay & interaction, which this game is built around.
