Recons should be no more than 10% faster IF cloacked. 20% when not.

IMO Juances brought that up to balance it. If the Recon isn't cloaked while on a CP, the recon is vulnerable. if he wants to cap faster, he'll have to remain un-cloaked. If he's paranoid about taking damage and wants to play safe, he'd cloak, but pose part of the capping bonus as a downside.

I think the Guardian only gets/gives the bonus while using his shield is to promote Guardians supporting their team, as opposed to leaving their shield unused until they battle someone.

I was under the impression that there were already cap speed differences between classes. If a Guardian is standing inside a cap, it's basically impossible to take from him, but if you're against others it just seems to decap faster.

Oh, I can't say with certainty. It may just be down to the fact that guardians mostly stay in place (on the CP) while other classes typically move around a lot, giving the impression that guardians take/hold points better than other classes, since they tend to go in and out of teh CP regularly.

Could be just that; I've never paid much attention as I've usually been preoccupied to think too deeply into it; I've just always felt that sneakily taking caps from other players was a lot easier, unless I was against a Guardian, in which case I couldn't seem to take the caps.

The point of the game is to capture with your teamates, not just going out alone, which is the dumbest thing that you can do in LD. If you want strikers to have less mobility around the map, double the time it takes to recharge their booster. It will make it so that they have to choose between being able to move quickly around the map or using the booster offensively. Recon is fine the way it is since the recon's cloak can be used for extended amounts of time. I do believe that the guardian should have that ctr since people need to use the guardian more.

Being able to hide and play safely while also capping is a bit OP. To further this, while you're trying to cap and someone appears, you could just hide in cloak on the CP and out-cap them while dodging hits against all but a bomber.

That doesn't really make sense. I've never seen a Recon evade anyone, cloaked or not, who is standing inside the control point. As I pointed out before, a Gran Faust swing covers like 2/3 of the control point. A recon risking staying inside the point and evading an opponent seems utterly impossible to me. Any Recon will move outside the point and try to kill the Striker or run away, not stay put.

~Sev

Sev, you don't need to stay in the CP to cap it while cloaked. You can easily just run circles around the blind opponent, and and out of the CP. They can swing around blindly and it won't take much for you to attack them back, inside the CP.

Even so, it's not about that so much. It's more about the fact that while you're decapping, you cloak. That way that if anyone passes by, they won't see you're there unless they pay attention to the cap circle decreasing. A good decapper will see this and step out as they pass, then step back in once they're gone, completely avoiding the fight. By staying visible (and thusly capping faster) you're making it obvious to anyone that you're there. Even if you see them and cloak quickly enough, they'll still know roughly where you are, but more importantly: that you're there at all! Remaining cloaked the whole time prevents them from finding out that you're there, and even if they do, they don't know exactly where.
Thusly, reducing the cap time while cloaked gives a balance, and gives you the choice of playing it fast or playing it safe. Allowing them to cap just as fast cloaked gives them all the benefits with no risk or disadvantage; you'd never have any reason to not cloak while decapping or capping.

and Brady, leaving the point for a while when a striker squad appears, you essentially lost those points for your team.

Not many passing strikers will take the time to fully recap their point, even if it is halfway decapped. They tend only to worry about it if it's neutral or otherwise. And even then....
Point is, it's not too hard to avoid fights as a decapper. Even if they do take the time to cap it back, they'll leave afterwards, unawares of your presence, allowing you to simply step back on it and continue decapping. They won't likely 180 and come straight back. Mind, a decappers job isn't to pick or win fights; it's better to hide and let them waste some time, than to fight and potentially lose, wasting a lot more of your time. Decappers are supposed to keep quiet, safe and alive, and run around the place safely.

If a swing is fast you can combo and cover the whole CP pretty quickly. When I roll assassin and see someone cloaked and decapping a CP (by watching the circle decrease) I just pop up and swing roughly around the middle. Virtually always get them.

I get that that's a wee bit different becasue I do it from cloak, but strikers can quickly boost onto the screen before you really have time to react just the same. Point is just that a slow sword can easily cover a large portion of the CP and hit any recon who isn't standing at the very edge.

Mind you, I also partially blame that on recons precisely for not standing at the edge. Anyone attacking a CP will always go for the middle; it takes little to stand at the top corner edge where you can pretty much avoid ever being hit by surprise~

Although yes; standing at the edge also affords the opportunity to merely step outside the CP and completely avoid even fast GF combo/swings. Problem is that a lot of recons simply don't give themselves the opportunity to do so~