I have tried looking for this in the discussions but didn't find anything. (Maybe I didn't look far enough) My apologies if this has been addressed before.

How exactly is a faction like the UFP supposed to fight cloaking?

I have tried building starbases with the proper sensors and I have also tried to move science ships with my fleets and having assist in cloaking detection turned on. Yet as soon as I warp into a system with something like a Romulan fleet they just instant cloak and don't engage.

I don't have a problem with the cloak in general but the fact that my military fleets, at least so far in 2320, can't detect them at all seems a bit too strong to the cloak.

There are some modules, such as the plasma exhaust sensor, that would make it seem like it should help in detecting cloaked vessels, based on flavor text, but it doesn't.

Ideally making it so that getting into a system where ships are and then seeing them cloak would allow the ships to be detected and fought. This could even be done with modules that cause some other sacrifice. I don't mind not being able to detect the fleets moving around by a smart player or AI but once I corner a fleet I think there needs to be *some* counter play and at present it doesn't feel like there is any meaningful counter play.

Am I just missing something and there is a proper way to counter cloaks? Are there things in the works to bring cloaks down just slightly to allow counter play when done properly?

Love the mod otherwise and thanks for any help!