EVE General Discussion

All these things are answerd by the item in game.

1. The cov-op cloak lets you move at full speed, but you can not activate a prop mod when it is on.

2. If there is something withing 2km from you, you can not activate the cloak and if it is already on then it will turn off.

3. It depends on the gate camp, where you land, and if you are fast. If you land right next to a instalock tackle, then you are gonna die, if you land 20km from everything and activate your cloak as soon as you start to align you should survive.

In Low-Sec you should be virtually uncatchable by any conventional means if you use the cloak right. Only an insta-locking fleet or a pipe bomber might ruin your day, but those are rare enough not to be of concern.

In Null-Sec bubbles and interdictors are your worst enemies. Warping into a bubble usually means you're still cloaked so you can quietly sneak away. However, jumping into a system and getting caught by a bubble camp on the other side is a different story. Especially if it's an interdictor, your chances of survival become very low. With the MWD cloak trick you still have a chance to make it out if you know what you're doing, but it also takes a healthy dose of luck.

No one has mentioned it yet - you can get caught by gate campers through the use of smartbombs still. They don't need a lock to activate so the first you'll often know about it is when you go pop :)

Campers set up dirty gates, a lot of abandoned drones and cargo cans, wrecks of victims, corpses, then they wait on the gate, hoping this stuff will prohibit cloaking so they can insta lock you. If you did not catch a dirt, they will try to decloak you and bump you out of alignement. sometimes they succeed. You better use scout in some fairly often dirt camped routes, like the route to high sec islands in low sec space.

In Tama on the Nourvakaiken gate that often happens. It's a good gate to avoid, even with a covops cloak fitted.

be quite nevil

Just remember that most explorers die with their cloak down...

A covert ops cloak is not a guarantee to get through gate camps.

Having a covops cloak is good for low sec, but still it doesn#t mean you are safe.

- You can not cloak when there is something 2000m nearby
- You can nt cloak when you are locked by someone else
- You can move at 100% speed, but you can not activate any module, so no prop mod

This means that you can get caught, even in low sec. All the gate camp has to bring is either a instalocking stiletto (with lock times below 1s and ideally playing from europe), or any fast locking frif that gets remote sensor boosts, and you won't be able to cloak because EVE runs on a 1 HZ tick, called the "Destiny" tick.

Once you can not lock, it is just a question of wether the enemy can get enough points viascrams/disruptors on you. If you have a ship that aligns and warps in below 2s, you can not be caught by a low sec gate camp either way, because the moment the scrams/disruptors activate you are already in warp. This means for a fast aligning ship (below 2s), a covert ops cloak isn't necessary at all.

In null sec, things are different. A proper gate camp will bring bubbles. An MWD sabre can go above 6km/s, and a good pilot will spot the direction in which you are trying to escape his bubble and decloak you, especially if you have no experience with getting away. If the gate camp not only brings bubbles, but also has an insta locking stiletto, they WILL get you.

The most secure way of traveling through 0.0 is a fast aligning interceptor since it is immune to bubbles.

If you want the best of both worls, take the Victorieux Luxury Yacht. It's both nullified and can fit an covert ops cloak, and if you buy some faction mods for it, it even aligns in under 2s, und is thus literally uncatchable unless pilot error.

Not sure where the 2s comes from but it is possible for an instalock to catch a frigate that is already aligned to destination before it begins to decloak, I have yet to see it do the same thing with a shuttle.