Rules around Cloak and Rp Clarification

[Aazalot]

So, one thing I will say off the bat. I didn't start this topic to be about the Rp that occurred. There are plenty of places where that is and can be discussed.
I wanted this topic to discuss what the dos and don'ts of a cloak is.

By what I've read from the replies it does feel like its a case of "using a cloak is fine, use it how you want until you use it how we don't want you to" Which is a very inefficient way or being.

Examples that have been floating in my head are things like A bounty hunter using a cloak to follow a target then decloaking, hopefully dropping lines, then attacking. Or a Pirate sitting at the end of a trade lane whilst cloaked waiting on a transport to come through, then uncloaking and doing what pirates do. Are those sorts of things allowed?

With the example of the Noth ship. If i know they are an enemy and i see them go past or know they are in my system and I think to follow them under cloak to see where they go? Is that action itself allowed? As as been said it was what was done with the information more then then use of the cloak so what do we do about the information gathering aspect. If things like that are subject to staff approval could it be done as an SRP/Player Request/Faction Request? Perhaps cloak info gathering has to be done over a period of time without being caught before the information can be used/shared.

I have my own opinions about what occurred but as I say this isn't what I created this topic for. I feel that the recent Rp highlights that actions under cloak are too much in a grey area at the moment.

A question for the Dev's surrounding hidden bases. Is it possible to have an anti cloak field around them? Or a similar counter?

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