Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I should start by saying that I am a cloaky pilot. I love my stealth bomber and cloaky hauler. There are times though that I feel it seems a bit overpowered.

To explain a possible solution i will use existing game mechanics to try and paint a possible solution.

Each race has 2 Tier 1 Destroyers but only 1 of the Tier 1 Hulls are used as the Interdictor. In the case of Minmatar you have the Talwar that doesn't have a Tier 2 counter-part.

The Tier 2 Talwar (T2T) would use probing skills but instead of a launcher (though a launcher could be used) an Emitter would be fitted to a high slot. The purpose of this emitter would be to send out a Tacheon burst (borrowing from Star Trek) that would 'paint' all cloaked ships within the range of it's "burst". This would impact ALL cloaked ships within the pulses range.

As far as skill requirements and what should be brought into factor: Range Finding & Pinpointing make sense. A new eWar skill should be in order I would think. Also, the emitter would have a cool down based upon the range requested. If firing a 32 AU range then the cool down could be as high as 5 minutes but compared to a range of 4 AU with a cool down of 45 seconds.

The skills could also impact whether the T2T is able to warp directly to the target or do they only get within 1 AU and are required to use dScan from there. It would make sense to use these in tandem with a ship utilizing Combat Scanner Probes. This would bring a "cat & mouse" game to cloaked vessels and provide a tier 2 hull for those left out tier 1 destroyer hulls.

I'm looking forward to the feedback & discussion.

Yep. Would have saved you a lot of pain that will soon fill this thread. I do recall making such a suggestion while back after the second set of destroyers were released. One has to admit the hulls do lend themselves to concept.

you still have a chance, no one has quoted anything. Delete everything. We won't tell i promise. Well, I won't tell at least.

This thread can only be described as kicking a hornets nest. That said, I see where your coming from...you're simply looking to discuss a new and interesting mechanic. Unfortunately after all the discussion that has been had it is almost universally acknowledged on these forums that any system of cloaking detection would almost certainly break more things then it could possibly add for content; and while I myself have kicked around some ideas the reality is that it's a very complicated topic.

Finally, I said I would link this in all relevant threads, so here it is. A vision of the future.

How would there be action if they can only see them in d-scan? Would they be able to target then through d-scan or what?

now how do I go about requesting a lock of a 'frequently mentioned idea thread'?
oh yeah - the report button.

I didn't mention it in my post because I didn't think of it but I never intended this to be used near gates or Wormholes. The idea would be to use this only for Cloaking Modules

I wasn't intending this idea to be used to find AFK cloakies. Honestly I wasn't even aware that was an issue. I'm going off the premise of an available hull and another role that could be filled.

Its a great concept Sam, it really is, and you have my vote. Though personally I would like it to be expanded to being able to finding the AFK cloaky pilots. Think if someone wants to terrorize a system, they should have to be active in it. Moving around, whatever. Like AFK miners, come back to find you have been sent back from where you came from because you choose to be stupid and be AFK in game. But hey, some can dream, others will cry they cant go afk in a system, blah blah blah. in the end, were all just pixels on the screen.


Fly safe everyone.

I will post my usual stuff in these sorts of threads:

Leave all these bad ideas about cloaking/anti-cloaking out of wormhole space. We don't want it