Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Suggestion:

Make cloaking a more interesting game of hiding by giving Combat Recon Ships a unique role, the ability to fit a


••• Detection Sphere Generator •••


This module decloaks hostiles at a 25(t1) 35(t2) or 45(faction) km radius. Due to the currents caused by jump portal generators, the module cannot be used in the proximity of stargates (detectionradius+5km).

Note: CR's cannot fit a covert cloak.

I dont see a reason to spend a Slot for this

This is a great idea!

However, in order to maintain balance all cloaking modules should no longer have any negative penalties for use, should have no lock delay, should give +25% resists across the board and give a 200% hp bonus.

/sarcasm

in all seriousness, no thanks.

Alternatively let combat recons use probes to find cloaked opponents? That requires a bit more effort and planning.

I shall attempt to translate the OP

1: Dear CCP, make gate camps impossible to bypass so I can get easy kills
2: Dear CCP, make bombing runs impossible so I don't get bombed
3: Dear CCP, I am bad at your game

While there are merits to being able to find/decloak ships having some form of bubble effect do it for you is patently bad game design. Probes as a method have been suggested a million times but honestly short of introducing a new gameplay mechanic or module it's the best way to achieve this.

I'm leaving this thread due to lack of value.

Rather than a bubble, it can be a pulse weapon type that can be activated once every 3 mins and generates a pulse 10 kms in radius that will decloak all ships within the radius.

perhaps it is view point... so many people see the cloak as something that is active making a ship "invisible"... we are talking about space here... something the size of our ships, for the most part wont be visible to the human eye, unless at extremely close range and are only visible to some sort of electromagnetic detection....

when a cloak is "activated" it is not making the ship "invisible" it is masking the electromagnetic signature of the ship, making it invisible to detection by active electromagnetic means......... turning off excess power systems... dampeners on the engines... using maneuver thrusters instead of main drives .... special internal shielding to mask internal electromagnetic systems.... this shielding would have the side effect of making those same electronics harder to disrupt by some sort of "burst" of energy near by

it is not "put on the magic ring and no one can see me" type of item

some sort of "decloak" bubble , is sending out some sort of burst of electromagnetic energy in a sphere out many kilometers... the amount of power required would be significant, in addition, by nature, stealth ships would be equipped with absorbent materials on the hull that make them significantly harder to detect (hmmm, maybe that should be a rig...something to reduce signature radius by a bit with slight penalty on armor.. blah, that's another discussion)

sending out a burst of energy in all directions just wont cut it for ships to detect cloak

The problem is the range of SB's are 30 km and 30 only, you need to be able to counter that has a SB, by adding velocity or something to your bombs, maybe that means adding mid sloes modules to make them go faster.

Altho i think this module could not be activated on gates. Or in higsec for the matter of it forcing someone out of cloak is aggression in some ways.

Yeah... I'm going to go with "no".