Could we at least get a primer on how cloaking mechanics work so people can stop jumping conclusion and inferred speculation based on one line of info.

- The cloak field is a piece of equipment.
- When selected the cortex is raised and you press fire to activate it.
- Once activated, it goes away and your weapon is raised. You can switch to other weapons/equipment while cloaked.
- You cloak. The amount of "shimmer" is increased as you move so standing still you will be nigh invisible, but when moving you will be noticeable to an extent. When cloaked, you obviously have no chevron or health bars, but the enemy reticule will flash red if you run past it.
- Cloak can be deactivated by selecting it and pressing fire.
- Once deactivated or it runs out it will start to recharge.
- Firing a weapon while cloaked will rapidly deplete the cloak field (a single shot from a sniper rifle, for instance, will decloak you)
- You can only fit one cloak field at a time.

Regarding decloaking before shooting, this would make sniping with a cloak effectively useless since you'll have the scope sway to deal with. I was hoping cloaked snipers would bring them out of the redline and into more strategic locations on the map. Stealth bombers in EVE have 0 delay between decloaking and targeting. Perhaps the solution is to have scout suits be able to fire while cloaked, all others would have heavy fitting costs and require decloaking first before firing. I do think you should immediately decloak 100% once you fire any weapon or pass within x meters of an uncloaked player/vehicle however. I'd also like to see deployable beacons that decloak anything in x radius.

I also think cloaks should ignore active scanners, but there should be a new proto active scanner that would only detect cloaks. It would have limited range and a long delay.

As far as getting the game perfectly balanced before adding cloaks, I completely disagree. The scout suits CAN'T BE BALANCED UNTIL WE HAVE CLOAKS. I don't want to play for 18 months with scouts being ridiculously underpowered before they get their turn for balancing.

Also TTK needs to be addressed, or else the cloak will be ridiculously OP. With the peek-a-boo shooter that we currently have, whoever gets the drop on the other player is 85% likely to win. If TTK was slightly longer than it was in 1.4-1.5 cloaking would be a major advantage in certain circumstances but not a guaranteed trump card.