[Suicide Junkie]

After viewing some of SJ's suggestions - I'm not sure about a few items. First of all, I don't believe that cloak-detecting sensors should require cloak technology. For example, several races (Feds/Dominion) at times seem adept at detecting cloaks but themselves do not have the same level of technology to use them. Furthermore if all races were to have access to cloaking, this method could potentially result in many, many redundant entires in comps.txt which for the purpose of the lone feature of comprimising another races cloak tech may not be worth it.

The basic anti-cloak sensors go up in tech level just as in normal SE4.
If you capture a Cloak, you get a BONUS to detection against that one race's cloaks.
If you have developed that cloak type yourself, you also get a bonus to detection against (your own) race's cloaks.

Basically, if you have captured some examples of the romulan cloaking device, you will know which imperfections to look for, as jimbob said.

You will have two options:
The brute force, check everything plus the kitchen sink, way, or
The finesse way, by checking for that 534,745 Hz vitural particle harmonic in the Romulan cloaks made before 2410.5

What you get is a sensor that you've researched normally, but has a special feature of defeating Romulan cloaks +1 level higher than normal.

Furthermore if all races were to have access to cloaking, this method could potentially result in many, many redundant entires in comps.txt which for the purpose of the lone feature of comprimising another races cloak tech may not be worth it.

Hey, we have at least 64,000 components to work with, so I don't think space will be a problem. And I'm willing to write a little program to generate the extra components, so its not going to be an unbearable amount of work for me either.