effectiveness of cloaking

[Ruatha]

One useful thing of cloaking (Stealth armour is good enough)is in multiplayer games that has "Show only own score".
By cloaking your ships and keeping them in a system where you have no scanners, you can hide an impressive fully trained fleet from your partners. So if they backstab you thinking that you are weak as they can see "all your ships" they will get a nasty surprise.