Give Djinn a Cloak

I'm not so sure about that. I like units with single uses. Also cloak breaks underwater anyway.

See this post (after the quotes): https://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/35938?postID=255624#255624

quote: Let me belabour this point as it is an important one. When someone says...

I think this is an issue of not being inventive with djinn and always using it for deep infiltration of enemy lines.

Context:
Djinn allows you to move units across extremely long distances.

So why do we not see:

Rapid transport to the front in the form of a Djinn? It can bring heavy units to the front much quicker. Gives much-needed reinforcement in heavy battles.
Evacuating VIU away from the front line? You plop Djinn near cons, open up a portal and bring back that 1000HP grizzly for immediate repair.
Redeployment around the front line? Need to move from one spot to force a breakthrough? Have Djinn teleport the bulk of an army to other part of the front.

I picked these three specifically because adding cloak does not help much - Djinn should never be in the firing lines anyway.
Cloak would make Djinn do one job - infiltration, when we have not used it in innovative ways first.

I say let's try to find a use for Djinn, and only if we find nothing but infiltration then give djinn the cloak.

As an aside, infiltration of enemy lines probably should remain risky and costly. Djinn is one of the few units able to teleport anything from a glaive to an 8K metal army into the opponent's heartland and do so completely undetected.

So then, um, WTF are the Charon and Hercules for? The last time they seem to have been updated seems, as in, 'I don't know when, haven't checked, and am going off context clues,' to have been before hotkeys was a thing, as the button to do the action of transporting units literally has (Shift) as part of its description. Oh, yah, and nobody uses them. If we could have like, a really slow multi unit cloaked unit carrier, that would be nice. And, no, this is not meant to be rude, I'm just Very curious.

Djinn is quite strong as is IMO. The fact it is not used much has little to do with Djinn and more with nature of players - they lack initiative to innovate. Having hercules bring in a couple of Djinns behind enemy lines could be very fun in a team game, and the key reason this is not done is lack of foresight. Also one can conceivably build Djinn with Athena if cloak is desired and a suitable location is available. Arguably, most ZK maps lack appropriate places to hide such an operation reliably due to how radar works, which may be the actual reason Djinn sees little use.

If I play a lobpot I'll try using it more though - it is fun and deserves love.

katastrophe yea. its kinda cool as is, you can often walk it from water undetected for enough to tele dante on a beach or something silly as that

giving djin a cloak could be nice, tho its not that much of pain in covert ops, ploping constructor with its cloak usuall sorts out that problem of long term hidden djin, jumping otoh could be nicer (or adding lobster dgun to athena with 3x lobster reload, or at least one riot unit to its unit pool)