When AI cloaks... does it work?

[Lemmy]

they can get past your ships but mines will still hurt them, i found this out the hard way. I built a fleet with only cloak ships and one construction ship to head into enemy territory and capture enemy ships and techs...they all (4 ships) were destroyed going through the second warp point

[Suicide Junkie]

I suspect the cloaks were deactivated because the ships ran out of supplies while attacking.

Since the cloak uses up supplies, it shuts down when you run out.

On the next turn their fleet may share some supplies and they'll be able to recloak.

[raynor]

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Since the cloak uses up supplies, it shuts down when you run out.

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In the data files, it shows the cloaking device using 100 supplies. But you don't burn any extra supplies either activating the device or moving around. However, you automatically de-cloak when you run out of supplies and can't turn it on without supplies.

Is that line in the file just so you can't cloak when you run out of supplies? Or, do we think Malfador probably intended for them to eat up some extra supplies when it is either turned on or you move with it turned on?