Something that has been bugging me for a while is the fact my Romulan Temporal Destroyer has no cloaking device. I suggested sometime back that it be equipped with one, being it's Romulan and all. Unfortunately this really isn't possible due to the fact that both the Temporal Destroyer and Temporal Science ships are 'generic' vessels all with identical stats regardless of faction - they simply get reskinned depending on which one you choose.
Since this is the case (and I don't see Cryptic giving them ALL built-in cloaking devices, otherwise they would have done that when they were released), why not add these Temporal craft to the list of ships that can use the Universal Cloaking Device Console?
Makes sense doesn't it? This way Romulan and Klingon Temporal vessels could have the option to use a cloak or not, and even the Federation could do so as well since I would definitely think that these future ships would fall into that 'special' category that is an exception for Fed cloak usage.
What do you all think?
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2. Game balance abstractions don't need to make sense. Every ship can't cloak because they want cloaking to be "special" in some way and it's more or less arbitrary what can and can't cloak. In canon, every ship can cloak just install a little device. There is no rational reason not to have one on everything.
3. The cloak consoles are a complete waste of space.
That's why I wasn't asking that a cloak be hardwired into the Temporal ships. They must give up a console slot in order to use one, trading away one advantage for another. It also requires the purchase of another ship which comes with the Cloaking Console - actually increasing profit for Cryptic, while keep 'cloaking' Temporal ships somewhat rare. It would be fantastic to at least have this option available.
(My OCD.... Rommie. Ships. Must. Have. Cloak. )
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I love the Tlaura, i love it… but it really does not need a cloak, that little ship is a beast!
Lol, neither do any of these.... Dreadnought Cruiser, Tactical Escort Retrofit, Avenger Battle Cruiser, Fleet Avenger Battle Cruiser, Fleet Tactical Escort Retrofit, Fleet Dreadnought Cruiser, Aquarius Light Escort, Fleet Aquarius Light Escort.
Yet they can all equip it.
It's time to add Temporal Ships to that list.
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Aesthetics might be nice, but it's a little hard to think of them and play them as temporal warbirds when they are just fed ships with a different skin.
Well, no, there wouldn't be different versions. They would remain exactly as they are now.
I'm simply asking that they be added to the list of ships which have the option to use the Cloaking Console.
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To me, cloaks are entirely unnecessary.
I agree with this. Only reason anyone probably thinks cloak is necessary are PvP gankers, IMO.
- bypass swarms of enemies in mirror invasion, or any map, to get anywhere fast without being forced into red alert
- enhanced battle cloaks for stealth torpedo bombers & sciscort
- ambush bonuses and buffing alpha strikes including science, extended with Reman species trait, other traits, etc.
- trait interaction: ex. honored dead to maintain dmg res buffs
- escape from incoming damage and nullify threat, ex. T5 Scimitar console for cloaking with shields up, starship traits (ex. Aelahl)
- PvP <-I don't do this in this game but others can tell you its merit there
- positioning, go almost anywhere to unleash sudden specific attacks without suffering damage (Ex. Scimitar Thalaron pulse)
- self-healing & passive regeneration by escaping red alert easily
- synergy with singularity core abilities
- turn rate boosts while cloaked (Romulan)
- duty officer abilities: ex. aux power boosts while cloaked, enhances stealth & anything scaling off of Aux
- console set bonuses that include basic cloak
I just never see a need for cloaking except for occasionally needing to slip away from a battle if you're about to blow up. And I seldom need to do that.
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Which is why I am of the opinion that all temporal ships had an OP cloaking device before they were sent back in time. Probably could fire weapons while cloaked, have a cloaking AoE, and 25th Century weapons would just pass right through the ship. The reason why it can't use 25th Century cloaks is the cloaks aren't properly calibrated to work with 29th Century ships. So a 29th Century cloak would work on a 25th Century ship, but not vice versa.
"Hidden Payload" 2pc set bonus is nice, but only works when at 0% throttle and out of red alert. Yes it works with mask energy signature, so can bypass enemies with it, sit still anywhere, and cloak, but that's about it. Better than nothing.
Also, so many powerful abilities in the game, having a cloak on KDF & Rom timeships is hardly worth a mention for balance's sake.
Same applies to singularity warp cores & abilities that already result in lower total subsystem power levels, one less starship class-perk, and having to pay 2x for both warp cores and singularity cores on Roms. The cores also drain when out of red alert, lower stealth rating while cloaked, and have cool-downs and charge-up times, so these can't be spammed even with the two or three warbird consoles.
And Roleplayers like me.
From that perspective, every Romulan ship should have a cloaking device, regardless of what century it's from. Klingon ships are hit or miss in this aspect (as they were actually never supposed to have them in the first place - a single line of dialog missing from the Search for Spock (ST III) stated that Kruge stole the Bird of Prey from the Romulans), and Fed ships would be 'special' cases only.
Again, if you don't like having a cloak on these ships, that perfectly fine, don't mount the Console. I for one would like the OPTION to do so - especially when it comes to RPing a Romulan ship.
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Or use Cardassian Intel ships on your fed Characters as those have a cloak.
Well, the captain of the ship is Romulan, and I like Romulan ships. So substituting another species ship is not really something I would do.
As for the Rep cloaking power, I have that, but 5 seconds active with a 5 minute cooldown really doesn't work for me as a substitute.
As Baddmoonrizen said above, these ships most likely had cloaking ability before they were stripped down and sold off. Why not simply allow us to put a cloak back on them, as an option, taking up a console slot that we could use for something else. That way everyone is happy. Those who want to put a cloak back on these ships can, and those that don't care, or don't want a cloak, don't have to. That's why the Cloaking Console idea is a great OPTION for these ships.
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Certainly. However, they might employ a different cloaking principle; one that requires the temporal gubbins the powers at be stripped from these ships so we don't go back in time to mess with paleolithic art and give Galileo a pat on the back.
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