Cloak duration & warmup time changes

[Haste]

Nomad cloaks already have much longer warm-up times. 30 seconds for the Nomad snub cloak and 45 seconds for the Wild snub one. The "human" cloak is still significantly faster to charge.

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[McNeo]

Nice, I did not know this. Thank you for the clarity.

[Binski]

Light cloaks charged too quickly and as a result were very hard to stop. They were, not quite, but almost get out of jail free cards but didn't really last long enough to do anything but run to the nearest base or jumphole. Often supported/enabled poor gameplay from a certain type of player.

Increasing their charge time and duration is definitely an improvement in both areas.

Yeah we should favor other cetain types of players as always. What you call poor gameplay is just posturing for 'remove what gets in my way' when its been this way for years and was not really causing any problems, except to those who claim its a waste of time to be here unless their opponents always die easily.

Ok so you wanna make this fair? Time for regular CD's to no longer work against charging cloaks. You want your 20s so bad, use it well or lose it. Or we just finally killed cloaks except to lurk pointlessly or evade an interaction completely.

Think of something other than that selfish drive for blues on an rp server and remember that denying you a blue also requires skill, and should be perfectly legit to rp. Boo hoo hoo if you get so angry and hormonal over losing a kill because you're playing a more compicated space game than star conflict.

The best way to fight back against the gankers was to dissappear on them while they frenzied to gun you down! I never even complained. Its fair to gank, should be fair enough with 10s charge time while being spammed with 3 CD's on your butt. If you let up and one gets through, thats an good achievement for them. PVP'ers addicted to blues ruin things to suck in a few more from those who probably put more work into their situation. I have like 10 small cloaks that are useless. NEMP's gone and useless. All to save weaker minded players from inconvenience when they should have been told the whole time to suck it up!

[Black.Cat]

Very good update, thanks guys. Now Groshyr will never find me in Enclave space.

[sasapinjic]

So,some newbie snub manage to activate cloack and escape from ganking and you decide to increase charge time ,because you want to do what, save your CD ammo?

That is stupidies reason i hear for change and balance.

Tired of lauching one CD every time you desheild snub? Thats one CD 9 secunds after you deshield him, if you deshield him every 5 secunds, that 14 secunds betwen each Cd lauch, to much for you ? By the time you deshield him 10 times, he will already be dead, uless you really suck in battle (or oponent really good, and in that case, he will not run away).To cheap to spend 10 CD per newbie?
Light cloack was only way for newbies to survive, i know that from first hand , and fight other day,this change is meant to take that away from them and alowed more easy blues ,you are getting thin of them,because you chase away newbies by selfish changes like this.
But carry on, good job,you have 9 players on line right now...

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[Skorak]

Of course the people who are fighting with every bit of skill they have without ever going to conn complain about this.

It's a good change. If you have the coders go for the jump drive next.

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[Egon Bigmemes]

meh, dont really like the change but it's whatever, dont have any snubs with cloaks to begin with

[Groshyr]

Very good update, thanks guys. Now Groshyr will never find me in Enclave space.

>_> my CLD3 has 9.5k range, just fyi. Don't even try to fly in a cloak in the Hebrides :3