Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I have just finished reading a lot of threads on how cloaking is overpowered and there is no fix for afk cloaking and stuff like that. Here are my thoughts and my idea on this sensitive topic.

Well, cloaking is a vital part of the game. I do feel that it is a very capable tool in the fact that it can't be tracked down and provides valuable information for people using it for scouting/bombing purposes. That being said, I believe that there should be a special case created for the discovery of a cloaked vessel.

Currently when a ship gets close to another (assuming that one is cloaked) the cloaking device will shut off, and that's fine and dandy, but that's at an extremely close range and no good scouter in his right mind will ever get within those parameters. I believe a new ring of "discover-ability" should be added, say, within the modest range of 100km. Once a ship passes within that 100km bubble its sensors will pick up a distinct anomaly that can't identified. It's also unable to pinpoint where that anomaly is coming from either, only that its figuratively within 100km of the ship. Only the pilot of that ship will see that information and may choose to relay that to other players via the local channel or whatever form of communication he/she so desires.

This creates a rather interesting situation, for now the one who discovered the anomaly not only knows he/she is being watched, but that there is something within 100km of him/her-self that he/she may now be able to expose and only has a short amount of time to act before that knowledge is known to the other party. After an appropriate amount of time the person who is under cloak is relayed a delayed message saying that his/her position has been compromised. This creates a fun game of cat and mouse in which active players take the stage. The discoverer can now actively pursue his/her lead on the anomaly, while the discovered can actively relocate. Afk Cloakers however, shall not be so lucky as they won't be there to notice the warning on their screen, and, depending on how the active player reacts, may be uncloaked and killed.

Here is my solution to the "overpowered" cloaking device. Making it possibly fun for the active players, while discouraging inactivity. There is always room for improvement, however I feel like this could be a temporary if not permanent solution.
Problem solved? Tell me yes or no in the comments.

I could see where you are coming from with the whole skills and modules thing and as I have stated there is always room for improvement. You can rest assured I have read and re-read my post many times before posting, and compared to most ideas, this one doesn't sound so un-achievable/un-implimentable. I believe that what I have here, is, at the very least, a small stepping stone that will finally help with this so called "problem".

Make a special probe that can only find cloaked "anomalies" to within a hundred-ish km, and a pulse generator that decloaks everything in 50km. Make the ammo for the pulse bulky and somewhat costly to produce. If you think they're within 50km of you, pay the half a million to decloak 'em. If not they aren't? Oops.

Then every gatecamp would have one of the decloakers...

Then give it a spool up, too. If it takes 10-15 seconds to spool, your cloaky hauler will be long gone. The point is to have a mechanic that a skilled player could use, not a godlike hack to make cloaks useless.

I would remove the 2000m decloak to 0 (Bump to decloak) and also remove the Charakter out of Localchat as long he is cloaked (or writing while cloaked).

I don't believe you have read it and understood much of anything. If you had, then you would have included the mechanic that plays a major part in AFKing.

Go back to the current thread on the subject and read it again. This time try and see all of the mechanics being used and then make your suggestion.

QFT

Cloaked ships are only dangerous when they're about to decloak, point your hump and unleash the bees.

No input for 10min, you log out of the game.

There you go. No more AFK cloaking, or AFK anything else for that matter.

To be honest cloaking is already a perfectly balanced feature. Not everything in eve has an anti or counter module nor should it. If cloakers were able to fire under cloak I could understand. The only issue here is your potential safety being compromised because someone is in system cloaked. Sorry to burst your bubble but that happens without cloakers too, ever heard of log in traps?

Cloaking is a passive way to get around and scout its used to gather information, most covert ships pay that price by reduced DPS and defenses. If a bomber is giving you issues than you clearly haven't learned to deal with them yet. What you are asking for is a way to potentially decloak someone, this is a bit rubbish give the level of firepower and defenses coverts have. If you wish to add in a function to seek out cloaked ships then I think its only balanced to give cloaked ships better DPS and Tank to at least have a fighting chance.