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Cloaking devices on enemy ships are annoying. Very, very annoying.

Is it possible though to create an event that ONLY destroys ships with cloaking devices. If the enemy hasn't got a cloak, you can't use it for an easy kill via events.

Or could it only affect "scripted" ships that come with a cloak by default and not randomly-assigned ships?
I know Captain's Edition has the augment that prevents enemy cloaking but that can be used on any enemy encounter, even those where it'd be a waste of power (same with the Radiation Projector on an automated ship. The dialogue seriously needs to match the encounter).

It's just an idle curiosity. But yeah I want to destroy cloaked ships with a vengeance for forcing me to wait for them to finish being all stealthy. (15 seconds... might as well be 5-years)

If I recall, DryEagle's Scarab broke enemy cloaking devices at the start of each counter. IDK how he did it, but it's somewhat similar to what you're looking for--?

I know that if you put too much available power into Shields, every layer after 5 will be damaged and require repairs whenever you start a new game or reload a saved game. Maybe something had been done for cloaking devices to make it work?

But no it's not the droid I'm looking for. I mean utterly destroying ships with cloaking devices. Teach them a lesson for trying to cloak on me!

CE sometimes uses a dummy weapon to permanently ionize the cloak. The icefield beacons I think. And also one of the combat augments. Not sure if you can use that to destroy the ship, but you can make it so they can't use it anymore I suppose.

Dealing damage to enemy ships is impossible unfortunately, so scrambling their system might be your best bet.

Damn, guess I can always settle with "Ship surrenders because they fear you'll destroy more than just the cloak"