FTL - Faster Than Light

[jez9999]

For cloaking on flagship phase 3 - what you want to do is trigger cloaking a little early relative to the first laser surge, so it ends as quickly as possible after the surge passes, so that its cooldown can recycle just before the second surge impacts.  (DON'T cloak the first missile volley on phase 3, cloaking the laser surge is more important.)  Also, the fourth shield layer and engines 6-8 do help noticeably against the surge, although those are expensive of course.

Yeah, I think I did cloak their first missile volley which prevented me cloaking the first surge. What do you do if that volley takes out your cloaking system then? lol

Have you learned about milking enemy ships for skill training?  Find an enemy ship that has no way of penetrating your shields - most typically this happens in sector 1 or 2 after you upgrade to two shield bubbles, when you find an enemy ship with no more than a two-shot laser and no missiles or beams.  When you find this setup, you can sit idle as long as you like until your pilot and engines guy both reach max evasion skill.  You can also get skill in shields and weapons with this - set one weak weapon to autofire if it won't ever break through and damage the target.  Opinions vary on the legitimacy of this tactic, but I've always used it.

Yep, I read about this quite early. Pretty much always get my guys trained up to gold standard.