Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Imagine you're a bad ass sniper or intelligence gatherer working deep behind enemy lines you've managed to work your way through vast swathes of enemey territotry towards your target........for hours you have slowly moved closer and closer to him til eventually you get your shot POW now everyone knows your there you need to get out and FAST tense hours of fleeing from enemies til you finally make it back to safety.....how does this correspond to Eve?

Well in a sense because of local it doesn't because no matter what you are flying you may as well be driving an ice cream van screaming 'I'm here guys come and get me!'

What I'm suggesting is this

1: If you're in some kind of covert ops / black ops ship you shouldn't appear in local chat unless you are spotted (uncloaked by either yourself an object or an enemy) or you choose to engage in conversation in which case you /fail at covert stuff

2: Once spotted it is you're responsibility to engage and kill your enemy and gtfo, any member of the enemy you're engaging in system should within a certain time window be able to warp to them and help them (not sure of that window size sure others can help and maybe the guy spotting the enemy or engaged by him if not locked could produce a temporary bookmark of where he thinks the bad guy is kind of spot the ball??) in the case of intelligence gathering not sure how that would work as you can literally sit there cloaked and never be noticed maybe a random chance the longer you sit there of your cloak having fluctuations and therefore being physically spotted?

This is something I have been running around in my head in how to add a sense of cloaky ships and black ops bods being able to fulfil their role without taking out a large advertisement saying 'im cloaking watch out' also it removes the point of afk cloakers cos they become utterly pointless you want to cloak up and go shopping good for you i cant even see you, dont see you in local you sit therecloaked whilst you're off buying fruit in kmart or tescos....

I'm sure someone will quickly point out flaws somewhere but TLDR someone flying a ship made for a covert / black ops role should be afforded the chance to utilise it to its correct extent...and that goes for everyone on all sides in wars you know there are spies and guys that attempt to kill the enemy behind enemy lines I'm pretty sure they don't take an ad out with a nice picture in the local paper

Like I said I know there's whoels there it just seems that if you take the time and effort to make your way behind enemy lines to gather intelligence without being spotted you deserve to be rewarded for that effort I'm not saying the ideas perfect by a long shot BUT something along the lines of what I'm suggesting makes more sense? So you want to sit cloaked for hours? Then you havew to move set a timer or something give people a decent chance to see that ship cloaked power grid fluctuations if you're cloaked and dont move for 30 mins I don't know but it just doesn't seem right.......Oh hai I'm just in your area hading out free assassinations you maybe one fo my targets here's my business card yes it even tells you nicely who I'm working for and gives you their contact details

nah ive already trained minmatar for those