Player Features and Ideas Discussion

OK lets face it, this game is RISK = ISK and the more risk the more isk.
Isk also comes in many forms, however what isn't taken into account is the isk loss you can force upon a Corporation or Alliance. While you directly aren't earning isk while camping a system in a cloak ship, you are forcing your enemy to be make less of it and thus are hurting them.

Now First off I'm not proposing a cloaking system that relies on cap use, nor am I suggesting special probes to scan down campers.

What I AM suggesting is that once a ship activates a cloak they start building a signature due to the distortion of space. This signature would be marked as an anomaly and the strength of it would increases over time making is easier to scan down
The idea being that it would be possible to scan down the anomaly (cloaky ship) after 30min-60min with max skills, longer with non-max skills.

Suggestions would be to have an exponential rate of signature growth with regards to time.
Movement would increase the rate of growth by a factor; such that the risk off staying still, being scanned down and warped upon would measure up with the lesser chance of being warped upon due to the movement.
It would also stand to reason the size of the ship would affect the rate of growth, however this might not be necessary as signature growth rates could also be affected by module choice for the cloak.

This would prevent someone from going AFK and camping a system with out risk with out reducing the usefulness of cloaks.


Open to ideas, suggestions. Let me know what you think.

Theres a thread for this type of drivel already. Seek the sticky section young padiwan.

Here is the thread you are looking for

damn. beaten to it