I dont like getting into debates over which show was "better". The younger generation likes Voyager, and ENT. Probably because they didnt experience the shows that came before first. Though i can see the younger generations point about TOS being "cheesey". What do you expect? It was low budget, and made in the '60's! TOS thru DS-9 was good. Voyager, and ENT almost sank Trek. Absolutely Horrible Writing, and inept direction from the Killer B's are to blame. Though i have to give Manny Coto a lot of credit for almost salvaging ENT. The 4th season was VERY good with the exception of the series finale (written by the Killer B's of course).
We are working on a rough draft for a faction guide on each races ability's, and weakness's. Cloak will last as long as there is antimatter to power it. Usually good for about a few minutes, or so of cloaking. Long enough to warp into a system, and be invisible to target locking until you get set up for your alpha strike.
The enemy will know you are there (Ships will be visible on the empire tree), but the enemy cant lock you, shoot at you, or chase after you until you decloak. Similar to the cloak in Starfleet Command. Which is more than good enough for me. The Feds have some cloak disrupting ability's that could mess you up. The Klingons expect Romulan treachery, but dont care as long as they can get in a good fight. All you will do to the Dominion is piss them off even more when you come in cloaked. The Borg are the best faction to use cloak against. They cant assimilate you if you are cloaked. Unfortunately we cant make the AI use cloaking yet. More hardcoded nonsense.
The Klingons mostly use cloak to escape a very bad situation, or for scouting. Though there are some dishonorable ones that used it for a sneak attack (Chang, Kruge). Honorable Klingons do not believe in hiding during battle. They would rather let you know they are coming, charge in guns blazing, and with bat'leths in hand. Klingons do not "run away" from a fight ether. They retreat only to regroup, and fight another day. Only a few Klingon ships can cloak with reasonable efficiency (the canon ships seen cloaked like the B'rel, K'vort, Vorcha, K'tinga). There is debate if the Negh Var should be able to cloak, or not. IMO it should not, because it is the pride of the empire, and exemplifies everything a Klingon warrior should be. The ship that is big, and bad, makes no secret that its coming, and charges in guns blazing.
Romulans use cloak almost constantly. Their ships are designed from their foundation to use cloak. They are the masters of the sneak attack, espionage, and subterfuge. Therefore the entire Romulan fleet can cloak. Romulans should have much longer cloak times than the Klingons represented by much less antimatter usage (we need to work on this). We are also working on some "sneaky" ability's for them as well. Romulans would rather pit two opposing factions against each other, and watch from a distance. However when forced to fight the Romulans are no pushovers. Their ships are powerful. They will fight to the bitter end, and suicide (Ships need area of effect "glorious death" self destruct ability hint hint) if the situation seems totally hopeless.
Intened ranks amongst the factions in order of ships firepower, and durability. Note all of the non-Borg factions are very close, and will stand toe to toe for a very long time in an all AI test.
1) Borg (SoA 2 bad ass's. As it should be. Need an entire fleet to take down one Borg Cube. Need all four factions to beat them)
2) Federation (All fed ships are somewhat well rounded, and of jack of all trades. Some specialize in anti borg weaponry)
3) Dominion (Equal to, or better than the Feds with some ships (Jem Hadar), but weak in others Like the Cardassian "meat shield" ships. Breen specialize in disabling ships).
4) Romulans (Their advantage IS the ability to cloak. Ships pack a lot of firepower. However big ships like the DDeridex are very expensive, and not easily replaced)
5) Klingons (Most Klingon ships are expendable "attrition" units meant to overwhelm you in easily replaceable numbers. However Elite units pack a lot of firepower, shields, and armor. They are very hard to kill).
We aint done with the artwork yet 
Just restart the mod. The minidump is a known issue. Usually it wont dump again once you restart the mod.
