[Karibu]

Only cloack I ever use is Stealth armor and that is only because of its ECM bonus. Well, not only, because it grants invicibility if enemy does not have experience enought to have scanners of any kind. I agree that cloacking device is worthless, because all scanners are so cheap to get.

I have never been able to find out any minefield beside ramming/sweeping them. At the moment it is balanced, because you can sweep them easily after you find them, but you must have sweeper with you all the time.

There should be some alternative to it. One scanner to counter one kind of cloacking. For example: inertial nullifier would counter gravitic scanner, Electromagnetic circulator (would turn any EM signals toward ships instead of sending them away) to counter Hyper Optics, etc.

In practice, you would have to had all kind of scanners to counter all kind of cloacking. Well, Ihaven't thought this through to the end yet, but you get the idea. Also, cloacking should include some percentage to be ineffective against a scanner of certain level (MOO3).