Talk:Cloaking Device/@comment-70.67.200.76-20160221083251/@comment-27666888-20160221085049

It's there to prevent a headache, not cause one. If your cloaked ship is in the middle of an asteroid belt and you roll the decloak you might not be able to legally decloak. It is specifically designed to counter this rule: " So rather than having scum players grin, er, scummily and declare that the roll is invalid as they can't legally decloak, FFG forces you to discard your cloak token instead.
 * If a ship cannot decloak in any direction, it cannot decloak.