Vasari scouts can cloak briefly. Cloaking in general could be totaly Overpowered. But I'm sure they considered it.

I think cloaking on actual units could become really hard to balance, it would be really cool to have fleets just appear out of nowhere but I think to balance that sort of thing would need an overhaul of the game.

However I think cloaking scout ships would work well, I believe they're designed to be fast but if there are hostile ships at the planet my scout has jumped to they can usually get away once, but if they jump to another hostile planet then they're dead. Sure they could just turn around and come back but then you can't scout into enemy territory very far.

I would probably want it that they aren't completely invisible though as otherwise they're basically invulnerable, perhaps just that they are invisible to ships but planetary defences can see them. This would mean that if a scout jumped to a planet with ships and planetary defences that the defences could target the scout but not the ships. I could see some people calling that a flaw, I think it would be fine, but you could change it so that the planetary defences 'negate' the cloaking device within the gravity well so that all ships can target it.

Sorry for the long post, just my thoughts. I think that cloaking in that way could be quite cool, though I would probably see it as a rather high research, 5th or 6th level, and I think it'd be more use than the infallible jump drive.

I would prefer to see Sins without cloaking. Cloaking is good for games where micromanagement is key, and I admit that you still have to micro in Sins (but rarely, especially with capital ships, in my week of playing the game). Also, I don't want to have to purchase a special detector unit in order to see a swarm of cloaked little ships that are chipping away at my flagship. You may be invisible, but you still emit infrared radiation. Considering that the Sins universe is ahead of our time, they should be able to use infrared cameras, but I don't know if that is affected by the cold of space. Oops, rant.

Anyways, if cloaking is to be implemented, I say that it should only apply to scouts, and that they wont be able to attack while cloaked. Yeah. A more pressing matter to me is space elves, not cloaking ( I despise them).

Lol well Im just throwing the idea out there and leaving IC to do the balencing and such. Ships cant attacked while cloaked or else that would make for some crazy advent attacks