Gunboat Cloaks

[Biggles]

As one who have gunboat+cloak , i can say it perfumes very well , even without CAU6 (i have CAU5 on it , but it would be only slightly weaker with HAU ) . It has sufficient armor , and even in heavy combat i manage to cloak and confuse opponents with that fast 20 second cloak activation , just to move away a little , and attack again . It don't need lighter cloak , it is fine as it is .
Besides , it leaves some advantage to people who decide not to equip cloak and go for heavy CAU instead !

You are lucky that you have one of the three gunboats that allow you too do this then. As I said in the first post the vast majority of gunboats are unable to do this which is why I think it ought to be changed.

People keep coming up with ways that a cloak gives you a PvP advantage on a gunboat to justify the limitation while ignoring the fact that cruisers and battleships can mount cloaks with CAUs no problem, despite the fact a cloak gives them a considerably greater tactical advantage due to their burst damage as Spazzy said. There is inequality even within the gunboat class, since three factional (no civilian option) gunboats are able to use CAU 5. This is why I would like a dev response because it seems irrational and unfair. Either all caps should be able to mount CAUs with their cloaks, or none of them should.

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