Survey - Cloaking devices

[Big Bison Bessie]

I think the auto-decloak is a bit too extreme, it makes it awkward to use the device to the point of it being a turn off at times. I'd definitely like for cloaks to be more powerful than they are now. Cloaks are one of the neatest gadgets in scifi but with their current implementation here they're not the dream.
No I am not saying this as someone who has a cloak disruptor mounted on their hammerhead, it's fine, don't worry about it.

But seriously, with the speed increase to cruise engines, that further messes with cloaks. The amount of distance and time someone has to react changes rapidly now, like extremely rapidly now. If a guy shows up at 10k when you're cloaked and he's heading right for you at cruise, how long do you have before he's entered your decloak range? Less than 20 seconds. And if you're not at cruise you need to wait those 3-4 seconds to have your engines charge and accelerate and get away from that bubble of antimagic that surrounds his ship that breaks your cloak. Which is an even bigger ask for a cap, which has a longer cruise charge time and a much bigger cloak break bubble.

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