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I have a request for cloaky ships. Im pretty sure im not the only one who has these problems.

1. Can we have a proximity alarm for when you delcoak so you know whats up? Its hard wif you have different overview sorting to keep tabs on the closest target. Nearly impossible to see in time.

This is necessary because you begin to decloak long before your ship model is visible to you. By the time you can see you are decloaking..youre dead. Its happened to me countless times. I cant have everything on overview all the time so there may be a can or some crap that im next to, and i cant see it.

So..if you are cloaked and some object gets within 5k of you, start sounding it.

2. Can you make the cloak activated module look a bit different? Its so faded green and you cant see it all the time, on green background...its bad. And lots of other ones too. Make it all flash green not just the outline. And if it turns off, have it red please.

Thanks

PS
...and all you hardcore players who "Well you need 8 eyes and 9 hands, so better get used to it..." shove it. :)

Overview management. I have a cloak tab that shows EVERYTHING and is sorted by distance. I'm not surprised by something getting too close to me.

Supported. Cloaking devices should have disadvantages. Interface ambiguity about whether or not a cloaking device is currently functioning shouldn't be amongst those disadvantages.

Umm it seems that a lot of you cannot see the difference between "better game-play & interface" vs "tactical, overpowered advantages"....put your thinking cap on and

How does changing the color of the cloaking blinky thing make this overpowered and having a proxy alarm which can be turned off if you wish, be also overpowered? If the proxy alarm goes off you should have maybe 2-3 seconds to react so this unlikely to help you unless you are paying attention and know what you are doing. Right now when cloaked you have ZERO warning that you are being decloaked, which is a major oversight. There is neither a text or a graphical warning , either on the modules or the ship. YOUR SHIP IS TARGETABLE BUT THE SHIP MODEL LOOKS CLOAKED...i mean wtf. This needs to be fixed. When you decloak, you decloak, you dont make the ship targetable but only lose the cloak 10 seconds later. Its purposefully deceitful! hehe. And besides, decloaking by proximity objects is overall just lame the way its set up now

Give me some sort of graphical warning on the ship that its being decloaked...like i dunno, some electrical discharges going across it. What I would do Is I would have the following

1. When cloak is active the module glows a bright green ITSELF not around it..
2. When cloak is being deactivated manually or automatically, make the module glow red for 10 second
3. When the cloak breaks because of proximity of objects - have the ship model decloak either instantly or some way that I can see it happening.
4. When proxy alarm is tripped have that nice neocon sexy voice say "Danger, unable to maintain cloak due to objects being too close to the ship.

All those of you who see this as some sort of new uber cloaking tool, im sorry its not. This addresses the interface, common sense and just plain better and more convenient game-play.

I would classify this right there with the following in game warnings

1. Market buy warning for excessive prices - this shouldnt exist either right
2. Contract warning for zero price public contract - humm? how about this
3. Steal warning? - no this is overpowered
4. Module overheat display makeover - no no no just burn the guns, overhead needs to have huge drawbacks its overpowered already..
5. Jumping into low sec - NOOO!! let the stooopid die
6 Autopilot being able to dock on its own as it can jump gates on its own but in a way that doesnt actually do everything for you. --- but NOT, we MUST JUMP EVERY JUMP. Docking is overpowered
7. Warning that "You failed to jump because you are cloaked"...NO but CLOAKY OVERPOWERED ALREADY, let the SOB sit at the gate.

I trust you get my point....if You dont, then go mine

The person saying "Fck sake, cloaky faggots got really huge advantages with cloaking and crying more options for cloak ? LOL" THe point of being cloaked is that you have huge advantages, BUT these advantages are heavily compensated by huge limitations. (Unlimited cloaking times aside, I do not agree with afk unlimited cloaking ...but meh, its not up to me).

I mean really, if anyone suggested that autopilot be able to dock on its own, it would get a hail of opposition from the elitist ignoramuses who have no clue about making a game better because they are unable to see past their own experiences and limitations, which is why they need to stay away from designing games

I wouldn't object to audible alarms where there are already text notices. Rather than pings or alarms or anything like that, a unique cloak/decloak/failed cloak set of sounds would be fine.I play without audio, so that's still no excuse to do away with the text warnings.

I'm pretty well against proximity warnings though. If you can't manage your overview and know how far away things are, then you don't need to be trying to sneak within 10 km of something cloak.

I frequently decloak inside of 3 km from targets. The proximity can result in irrational behavior and trips up less prepared pilots. I don't want persistent alarms telling me I'm at risk of being decloaked while I'm scraping past wrecks to get the range I want. I know what I'm doing, and if I *do* get decloaked I'm well aware of the risk. (And no, adding a toggle to turn of such alarms is not a good idea, we've got too many toggles already)

Learn to read noob. This is only a change in the client/interface...not in game mechanics.

But since your too dense to see let alone capable of understanding that....yell/cry away.

Isn't there already a decloak alarm? It's called "Oh ****...I am visible again!". As it stands this screams "I want to afk cloak and be alerted when someone catches me!". With that said, I agree. I also think alarms should be added for a whole crapload of things including new reds, neutrals and war targets in system.

Well there is already a visible warning. See that little green circle with the picture of a cloak in the middle? When it stops being green and changes to red, that's your cue to be somewhere else.

Of course this is assuming you are not an AFK Cloaky. If you are, tough. Should've been paying attention.

As has already been pointed out, this isn't really that much of a problem if you have your overview set up correctly.

I do feel that it does give another advantage to the cloaked ship. If you are AFK cloaky and you hear a warning, then you will change to that toon to see what's happening, so it's just giving AFK cloakers another 'layer' of protection that they really don't need.

Noob ? Maybe you moron.
Who talking about game mechanics ? This is crying from an AFK cloaker, who want to hear, when his ship uncloaked, when he not at his computer. Crocodile tears.

Yeah, unless you're an absolute moron AFK cloaking should never bring you on-grid with something that can uncloak you, much less 2 km away.