Otherwise cloaks will be an issue again. Particularly with the Nomads too when we have to deal with farmers.
Just be sneaky and subtle with the way you activate your cloak, it's fine as it is.
Agreed, having to CD a fighter in that exact 3 second interval in which it charges it's cloak isn't that easy if you time it well and combine it with your shield being down anyways. Getting out of a fight you're about to lose is already easy enough as it is, anyone who has played before the era of cloaks will tell you that. I'd vote keep it as it is.
P.S. Instead of nerfing the CD why don't we buff it's counterparts so people have a reason to use them? Why was the Mini Razor nerfed anyways, did people really cry that much about being shotgunned?
The MR actually got its damage nerfed because 2.00s were buffed across the board. Anyway, the cloak times need to be closer together. 15-45 seconds between for fighters and battleships wouldn't be too bad. Right now its pretty much impossible to CD a cloaking fighter before the shield activates, and also impossible for a battleship to escape a fight with a cloak. Both should be hard but neither should be impossible, and unfortunately that's the case right now.