Everybody loves scan (unless it's being used against their planets), but cloak seems a little hit-and-miss for players. On the extremes, you have the people who love it and can't get enough (then go Zolazin Spy) and those who consider any pure cloak mod a waste of space and upkeep.

What do you consider enough cloak? If you plan on hacking a ton of people and are above rank 200, how much cloak would you consider "adequate"? What if you are above rank 1k?

Hiding on the BT should be irrelevant, since a serious player should be used to getting disabled/hacked every now and then. I do not consider critical hits sufficient reason to waste deckspace for S/MSBs.

In any case, for S/MSBs, I tell them to check the wiki and try to run enough scan to find the good Elite NPCs for their rank, but dump cloak. If they are really worried about being hacked, they can raise scan, but an arti or two will drop their scan and/or cloak making their efforts moot.

In short, I figure the advantage of a LSB is to keep adding modules, so no reason for them to not keep adding cloak. For non-hacking S/MSBs, cloak should be mostly irrelevant, and even for S/MSB hackers, they can add cloak when needed.

So I'm kind of getting that you consider cloak a luxury item, and I would tend to agree in that it's far less essential than say, energy, attack, or scan.

If somebody enjoys having a lot of cloak on their ship but isn't a hardcore LSB (large ship, not afraid of adding stuff, but still picky about mods -- if a mod is going to add decks, prefers them interesting or at least efficient), what threshold would you set as "worthy" cloak mod? What items are must-have, what do you consider filler/trash (seems that there are a ton more Cloak Mods of Questionable Ability than scan mods)? Or should you just go all-or-nothing with cloak?

Ah, I see what you are asking. I like hacking but have limited deck space. I deploy the four top researchable modules due to the space efficiency, CipherBot 2.0s for the hacking bonus, and Coalition Databases for the % bonus, which are my "must haves" (if I am hacking). The "worthy" cloak mods are modules deployed for general efficiency (multi stat modules) like Parsers, Cybernetic Link Interface, Decryption Senary-Frames, etc. In all honesty, the multi-stat modules are usually deployed more for the scan, and all of the modules mentioned above stay on my ship currently due to me hacking a lot. Back when I was on a raiding binge, all the pure cloak modules came off in favor of weapons.