Fair enough, so it can't be an ap pull otherwise it would be too common specially for players with high ap per hour. Then maybe we can do a repeatable mission that will only do certain number of repeats so it will not over take scanning.

with only passive cloak and no passive scan, eventually no one will be able to find anyone on BT (well, for ppl who eventually end up in the rank 2000 range lol~ cause rank 1200+s will be able to pull enough by the time they grow that size to be perma cloaked)
This is very far away, but will defintely happen eventually~

And because passive scan will mess with the 100% safe cloaking of planet, we know that passive scans will be no-no

Therefore, a linear increase of perma cloak indefintely is probably a bad idea.
if it was really rare(some rare NPC drop only) then it's almost worthless
if it's not rare, the eventual "can't find anyone" will happen.... eventually.

On the other hand, a non-linear growth might be a good alternative.
For example, the first +5 cloak only require 1 of those artifact, but the 2nd will require 2, 3rd requires 3 and so on.
It would be easy to gain you first 100 or so cloak, but as the amount goes up it becomes increasingly hard.
Ofc, this growth rate is a bit extreme because it would be hard to even get 500 out of it that way, ideally speaking, the amount of cloak growth should be something like this:
For a fairly big but not extremely hard effort, you can hide from all the ship that doesn't have a scan buff on. (while you are unbuffed ofc), something like requiring 2000 of the artifact
But it would be extremely hard, if not impossible, to hide from ships that currently have Continuum Beacon on, something along the line of requiring a total of 50k of the artifact.
And it would be pretty much flat out impossible to hide from ship that have both Continuum Beacon and Stryll Seeker on. (again, while you are unbuffed). It won't be technically impossible but would require like a total of 50 million or more of the specific artifact.


So I'm not against passive cloak(or idea of that sort) itself. But I see a linear growth(or rather exponential growth as your AP shipment get bigger etc) as a problem. It need to be diminishing growth.

It doesn't if the bonus to ship is fetched from the "planet" column. The two are not sumed up for total calculation until they reach the "total" column.
Therefore the planet cloak value is static

Darth, you're obviously making this more complicated than it has to be.

Planet has 1,000 cloak.
Add that to the ships cloak

The code would essentially be "Take value from column B, tack it on."

Darth, you're obviously making this more complicated than it has to be.

Planet has 1,000 cloak.
Add that to the ships cloak

The code would essentially be "Take value from column B, tack it on."