Ships & Modules

Cloaking Field generator.
A high Slot module with fairly high CPU cost. Only able to be fitted to Black Ops ships but gives those ships a bit more utility. When activated this module cloaks other ships in the vicinity (though they require the apropriate module fitted to make use of it. Requires the skill Cloaking Field Generation; the prerequisite of this skill is Cloaking V (or maybe just IV) and each level in this skill increases the radius of the cloaking field. Can be kept active during warp


Remote Cloak Receiver. Fittable to any ship and functions just like a regular cloaking device when active, but can only be activated when inside a cloaking field generated by someone in your fleet (I am actually thinking it should require the Cloaking Field Gen ship to be set as the Squad Booster) ; it requires Cloaking IV (or maybe V) to use. The trade-off is massively decreased penalties compared to regular cloaking devices. It is able to remain active during warp as long as the ship warped with the accompanying Cloaking Field Generator


Essentially Black Ops will allow regular ships to warp while cloaked; the downside is the black Ops itself still can't warped cloaked and you have to form up before hand for it to work, so you can;t stay invisible the entire time from gate to gate due the distance the gates drop each person from each other and the need for all the ships to be aligned before warp. If used properly, it can let you get the drop on somebody, but using it well requires some skill and attention by everyone involved.

Another possibility is having a T2 version of the Remote Cloak Receiver allow normal ships to use covert jump portals (or maybe have that as a separate module or rig)

Wondering (and this may have already been discussed before) if there will come a time when we'll have a module that will allow fleet cloaking?

Of course the fleet would have to be within a certain range and the regular cloak restrictions would apply. If one member of fleet does an action that would normally break cloak the entire fleet has cloak broken. The module itself would be like a command module and require some major Cloaking and Leadership skills to fit/use. It would only work on a Covert Ops.

Just an idea...