Stevedog13: How about this? The "recharging" is actually acquiring weapons lock. This is why a more experienced crew member can get a faster lock. When an enemy ship is present the computer scans the sector and locks on the target, when there is no ship present the computer scans the sector and once it can identify that the sector is empty it simply readies the weapons. The Pre-Igniter is similar to a long range sensor but is highly calibrated to prescan the sector for use by the weapon systems only. When a ship is cloaked the targeting computer becomes confused and continuously scans and rescans the whole sector looking for the ship, it can tell there is something there but not enough of a something for weapons lock.

abrigati: So cloaks somehow prevent weapons from powering up. That has to be a bug.

polyorpheus: Yeah, it doesn't make sense, given that when you cloak, the enemy fires and always misses. Fine as it plays now, though.

AdamR: Simple. When a the enemy cloaks, your crew thinks that they are facing a ghost ship, so they are petrified with fear, and stop charging the weapons.

Telika: Listen, you people simply don't seem to get how cloaking works in this game.

When a ship cloaks, it emits a wave of counter-light that is tuned to the wavelength of his usual visual signature. But in order to fool alphascopic sensors, it has to emit both subdepression retrophotons and circular endospeculum (or else the postgravity range of alpha byproducts would resonate with the epicycloidal ghost effects, negating the whole transvibratory nucleation of its gaspic influx spinners - the resulting underwaves would be uptickled by the enemy's passive obstragostolemical perifrontispectarolographers, especially the left ones). So, to make the three detonic follispices coincide alternatively with the retrophononic subdepresser's broadeners and the echocircuiter's virtual pumps, you have to postpone the unshocker's detilts.

No wonder that the gyroaccumulator's gleams get undersliced out of sequence. It gets automatically anti-balanced by the tracting fluosponges along the whole beam (or most of it), shifting the broadeners towards introflobbical hammersauce - at least until the pink-most delinear robbles are resolved.

The consequence is a sterilisation of the grong that mulk the frip of the snatz that prine the gleb. Which, of course, takes the same time as the opposite.

Jonesy89: So basically it uses multimodal reflection sorting.

Telika: Listen, you people simply don't seem to get how cloaking works in this game.

When a ship cloaks, it emits a wave of counter-light that is tuned to the wavelength of his usual visual signature. But in order to fool alphascopic sensors, it has to emit both subdepression retrophotons and circular endospeculum (or else the postgravity range of alpha byproducts would resonate with the epicycloidal ghost effects, negating the whole transvibratory nucleation of its gaspic influx spinners - the resulting underwaves would be uptickled by the enemy's passive obstragostolemical perifrontispectarolographers, especially the left ones). So, to make the three detonic follispices coincide alternatively with the retrophononic subdepresser's broadeners and the echocircuiter's virtual pumps, you have to postpone the unshocker's detilts.

No wonder that the gyroaccumulator's gleams get undersliced out of sequence. It gets automatically anti-balanced by the tracting fluosponges along the whole beam (or most of it), shifting the broadeners towards introflobbical hammersauce - at least until the pink-most delinear robbles are resolved.

The consequence is a sterilisation of the grong that mulk the frip of the snatz that prine the gleb. Which, of course, takes the same time as the opposite.

Mustakhrakh1sh: Did some of you play old games? ... So I basically played blind. I had to figure the controls out, I had to figure the rules out.