vampire fixed, misc gripes itt

[Crumplehat]

It was changed... I don't know when, but I think it was when vampires were still new, maybe? I can't remember, but the reason at the time was that the cloak effect was always on and obvious as hell if you had thermals or were a robot. And the thing was robots/AI's would narc the everloving shit out of you at the drop of a hat. This effectively made the thing totally worthless if you had any cybernetic PCs running around at all. Which was an okay idea at the time but it ended up being a monster, because not only was it hard for a cloaked person to tell if they were still cloaked (especially vampires when the lighting code was changed and it was hard to tell if you were "in the shadows" or not, and oftentimes the effect didn't disappear even when the cloaker became visible, outing them to people who could see them), but on the other side of the fence, even with thermals you couldn't be sure you were looking at a cloaker unless you caught sight of that swoosh.

So basically it's been fucked for ages now in several ways, but nobody's gotten around to fixing it.