Explanation: Canon vs Non-Canon Roleplay; Cloak Roleplay Etiquette

[Emperor Tekagi]

I appreciate the non-canon/canon clarifications (which should have been common knowledge and common sense but oh well, good to have) but I really don't get the talk about cloaks.

Buff cloak disruptors. Keep the system disguise mechanic. Bring back the cloak beep and make it ~1-2k longer in range than the auto-decloak.
Simply restrict FR and Bounty application (or for your fancy rule interpretation convenience: Roleplay Consequences) through a completely cloaked encounter as being invalid. It's the favorite action to artificially reduce ways of playing the game after all. Although in this case, it's surprisingly justified!

Cloaker gets to use their cloak with all its features still. The one being stalked has a sign if the cloaker strays too close. If the cloaker wants their observations to matter, they just have to reveal themselves.

Sure, cloaker could sit then at max range for a while and claim it as valid. But it would be the same as if I dipped in and out of scanner range with a superior scanner (like a Wiretap) and listen in to all your convos outside of your own scanner range. So uh.