Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hi.

My idea for you is to use the search system, it Convenient, free, and already in place!

This will also decloak people actively cloaking and attempting to set up a lul-bomb or just trying to get to that gate safely because that stupid bubble caught you and not 20 seconds later someone showed up at the bubble trying to decloak any unlucky guys. But you were lucky and got out beforehand.

So no.

A novel idea, but it lacks the downsides that we all know and love.

POS module, Coronal Agitator. One possible per system like cyno jammers.
Upon activation it generates a solar flare that irradiates the entire system and forces cloaks to cycle off .. radiation is a fickle thing however so at the same time all exposed shields (ie. not docked in station/outpost) are reduced by 20%. Secondary effect is that all capacitors of undocked ships are instantly refilled.
- Use to decloak holstiles.
- Use to move capitals around at break neck speeds (who needs EHP anyway!)
- Use with spy to cripple shields on structures prior to attack.
- Use for ratting .. hahahahaha!

Won't matter for long though as the announced probing changes points towards local getting axed soon'ish (what you don't see can't annoy/harm you, ostrich rules!), question is we will see a counter to cloaks introduced at the same time.

The problem with that explanation is that the cloaks work by bending electromagnetic radiation around the ship.

Posting in a crying-about-cloaks thread.

AFK cloakers are zero threat to anyone why do you want mechanics to force them to decloak? Are you so bad you can't find active players to shoot at?

I'm getting pretty bored of reading the same sorry excuses for AFK cloak whines on the forum by people who both lack the imagination to think of counters which exist in the game currently and lack the sense to search the forums for the many, many iterations of the same whines by people with equally lacking imagination in which the solutions have been posited.

If you did a bit of research you would come up with all the possible counters to AFK cloaking and thus join the multitude of people who read these whine posts with vitriolic scorn and a certain pride in not being "one of those anti-cloak whiners".

I and many like me have previously explained the many methods of playing AFK cloakers (and in fact not AFK cloakers who are actively waiting for people to think they're afk so they can hot drop on them) at their own games. I won't repeat them here. If you want to find them do some research.

oh forget, ccp will fix drone ai soon, who knows anti-cloaking sniffer drones ? seek'em all

In order to balance this I would also suggest that each solar flare prevents all mining in a system, which incidentally would wreck your botting business.

Cloaking is a tactic, not a broken mechanic, botting however breaks the eula and harms the player driven economy, so I know which one is most acceptable to ccp.