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If you're warping into a combat situation and you aren't certain of the status of your cloak, you aren't paying close enough attention. you will typically have ten seconds or more of time in warp to make sure your cloak is engaged. If you're blindly stumbling about making assumptions about your ship's operations, you earned your losses.

I frequently multibox a pair of cloaky PVP ships. I maneuver them both in close proximity of targets, decloak them, and engage the enemy with very little trouble. I'm still getting the hang of catching two ships on ambush, but that's just going to take experience.

A simple voiceover of "cloaking failed" used both when a cloak didn't active and when it was forcibly deactivated wouldn't bother me too much. It won't help AFK cloakers much mostly because they're ***AFK*** but also because they're going to be in a safe spot where the only way cloaking could fail is if someone bumped them. By the time they were able to respond, they'd be dead.

I just found this thread...

Why so little support?

Sounds like an awesome idea.

+10000 Internetz.

There is....but its bloody quiet...i think they kinda nerfed a few patches ago.

Making it more distinctive.....would be nice.

No afk alarm.

Eve has sound? The only time this would be useful is if you were Afk.

AFK-Cloakers aren't dangerous but they should be probe-able in some way. Perhaps an ultra uber probe launcher and probe.

Please...train reading and comprehension to level 1 before replying....your an embarasment if you don't.

Think of the children!!


As for AFK Cloakers...well for crying out loud...anyone with half a brain could figure that problem out with current mechanics....so AFK wise its irrelevant.

It could even be a quite alarm...or a little beep noise or whatever....something thats already present..like "hull breech eminat" warning you get when struct is gonna go "boom"

Killmail or it didn't happen.



Yes you are.



Learn to read.

There's only one.... as far as I'm concerned.

Dual Boxing/Multi Boxing...

But then most could wave that off as well.

Not really a buff....I'd classify this as an UI Feature thats no different to it screaming at you when your shields are about to drop more loudly than usual.

Granted AFK Cloakers would be extra lazy but in all reallity this isn't a damaging feature in terms of mechanics.

And that stupid argument will never go away anyway.

But I get where your coming from...as always.


PS: and yes...you have to be braindead to miss the fact your not cloaked anymore but most people are that dense/stupid unfortiantely. (and you know who you are)

Lets get this "It will help afk cloakies" rubbish sorted shall we?

No one really likes AFK cloakies. Even they themselves don't enjoy it. Would an audio notification of cloak failing help them? No, practically never. I hate to have to explain why, but here we go.

If they are truly AFK, the audio wont reach them. That's a pretty obvious one. If they are in a safe spot cloaked, no one will ever get near them, so their cloak will never fail, so no help for them there.

So lets take a situation where it (on the face of things) appears as if it may aid them in their AFKness.

So.. Idiot in a cloak is sitting 50km off a station AFK, because for some reason he thought that would be a good idea. He is alt tabbed and doing something else. His alarm goes off, he hears that he has been uncloaked and so he alt tabs back to his client to save his ship. Alt tabbing takes a while, and he stumbles to find something to warp to on his overview, aligning takes a while too of course, which is too bad because by that time they had blown up his pod some time ago.

I can personally think of no instances where it would help someone who is afk.

Now, a few of you are saying "Who needs it? Its easy to tell when you get uncloaked." If you find it so easy, you have no reason to post here. I know I will just get a load of "your a n00b" comments following my next few sentences, but oh well.

Good PvPers in general have their camera zoomed out to get a good idea of what the battlefield "landscape" is like, so you cant visually see if your cloaked anyway, your ship is too small most of the time. You can watch the cloaking mod, but frankly when im counting hostiles on overview and making sure I've got it right for reporting intel (and that im not too close to anyone), I have more important areas of the screen to look at. Never mind the whole host of situations where plain forgetfulness comes into it.

It should always be perfectly clear, even without looking at the subtle green flashing of that mod, whether your cloak is still intact.

I say again. If you don't have a problem with this, then you have no reason to complain that people might like an audio notification. If your worried about afk cloakies getting benefits, then your.... misinformed (to be polite). If your screaming "Ah, just don't be a n00b and it will be fine", well what if you actually are new? It would be nice for it to be more intuitive.

This is a clunky UI issue, and that is all it is.