[SOLVED] Zoltan powered Cloak doesn't recycle

[UltraMantis]

I don't remember reading about this one.

If your cloaking device is unpowered, and you send one Zoltan in the room the system will get 1 power bar free due to the Zoltan bonus. If you activate the cloak then send the Zoltan out of the room the cloak will of course depower and your ship will immediatley become visible. But guess what? There will be no waiting period after decloaking. You can immediatley send the Zoltan back into the room and cloak again. And again. And again... anytime you need to cloak, even for just a moment, you can do it without the long recycle as a penalty.

The explanation is that normally power allocated to a cloaking device is 'locked' while it is recycleing, but Zoltan crewmembers carry their free power with them, so no power can be 'locked'. If this is a bug it can be fixed by forcing the cloaking device to take power from the reactor if it has no power of it's own. Where this power would be taken from exactly is up to the code i guess. If it's a feature... it's good one but seriously overpowered. Almost perpetual cloaking is possible if you have 1 Zoltan on board.

[Weltall Zero]

My intuition is that this would work as well with teleporters, as they work exactly as the cloak (they get ionized after use). Is that the case?
In any case, this should definitely be fixed, as it's quite game-breaking (more so for the cloak than the teleporters, but still).

[barsooma]

I could not reproduce, although I'm still running v1.01

[UltraMantis]

I will try to record it, but it takes a while to get a Zoltan and cloak in any ship. I've had some rotten luck trying to play the #$%^&@* B type.

[Matthew]

Sorry to resurrect this old post. Were you ever able to reproduce it UltraMantis? Since this was after the last patch, could it have been you were just outside of combat and experiencing the "instant cooldown" of cloak that happens as long as the ship isn't in danger? Otherwise I can't reproduce it.

[UltraMantis]

Why are you confirming that i'm a dumbass. Have i offended you in any way?
j/k

Of course it was outside of combat, i just forgot to update this thread a million times.