EVE General Discussion

I love cloaks. They make transporting goods through hostile territory a lot easier, they allow people to escape harm as well as to spy on others. Having said that, there is some serious need for allowing players to effectively country this one sided advantage. aside from cloaks there measures and counter measure with most if not all other modules. So why are cloaks left in a state of imbalance with the other modules. Why is it that a cloaked ship can remain cloaked for 5 full days in one system and the corp that owns that system is incapable of locating that hidden ship?

This is extremely one sided and should be addressed by the devs.

Some people have proposed a timer that would cause the ships to de-cloak after period of time and would require a recharge time before it can be used that was based on the length of usage. I think I have a better idea.

My idea would be to either create a new probe that has the capability to seek out cloaked ships based on skill level. It would not locate or show anything that was in system unless it was cloaked. then using the same process to locat anything else, you could eventually locate the position of the hidden ship.

What ever the case, something needs to be done to correct this one sidedness. a ship should not be allowed to remain cloaked in a system for 5+ days without being challenged by those that own that system or territory. The use of probes would still allow the integrity of the cloaked ships to remain to a decent degree while allowing others to locate cloaked ships whose players continue to use this as an unfair advantage. I like probes over timers because it allows the player of the cloaked ship to be able to use the cloaks until they are located.

I would like input from the Devs please. Thanks.