There was a discussion on Planet cloak in our legion, and an idea was brought up... was wondering what you all thought of it:

This started when one of our members was asking questions about how cloak affects planets... I had scanned a planet with 900 cloak while doing a blitz, but only had 680 scan at the time (I was only a rank 50 or so). He had mentioned that it seemed like a waste to even bother cloaking a planet in this fashion, and we started tossing some ideas around.

What if the cloak acted like it does on a ship? Cloak would still obviously be used to hide from people scanning it, but it doesn't seem enough this way... so what if cloak had an added bonus for planets? Say if a planet had 1k cloak, and you were lucky enough to find it with 700 scan... but then to see it's resource productions, you'd have to have 1k scan. Then to see what the player is producing, 1200 scan... and to see the structures and defensive values, 1500+ scan. Even more scan to see the current effects.

From where I'm sitting... cloak just isn't worth doing. I'm only a rank 78, so this may be different at higher ranks, but I feel it would add a new aspect to how players attack and prepare invasions... as well as how they build their ships. As far as I can figure, this idea wouldn't really affect the truly high level players.

IDK, let me know what you guys think.

just so people know how planet cloak works right now....
i came across this post recently...
viewtopic.php?p=26087#p26087


....now to go to the previous post's comment...
per dan's explanation of planetary cloak, you will never be able to find a planet with 1K cloak if you're only using 700 scan...
on the other hand, if you have 1K scan, you'd have a 30% chance of succeeding at locating a planet if it has 700 cloak

though i think you have maybe a few good ideas in there