Ships & Modules

To find those cloaky ships. Some sort of high-slot module that can ping out to a proximity, maybe only fittable on certain types of ships, to find cloaked ships. Similar to how destroyers at sea find subs under the ocean.

No, no it does not.

Or just add a "Space distortion analyzer" Probe that you can use to scan down cloakies, and once you have a 100% lock, the probes will appear around it and disable it's cloak for 1 minute whilst you can warp to it and kill it. Requires good skills in scanning to pull off etc.

Sound Navigation and Ranging

How exactly would that work in the vacuum of space, I wonder...

or weapon sounds. or visible laser beams. or warping through planets.

you get the point.

Why?

People who ask for Cloak detection go straight to the Destroyer and use RL Destroyers as an example.

Seems like a good choice but IRL it is actually Frigates and Destroyer Escorts (US Name for Frigates.) that did the IRL brunt of the ASW Warfare

Almost every ship had Anti Sub Rockets and Depth Charges in WWII but the Destroyers main goal since creating was as a Blue Water Heavily defended Torpedo Boat for Destroying Capital Ships while having enough guns and Armor to slug it out with smaller vessels. Unlike in EVE Armor does not have HP so either a round pierces or it doesn't, bent armor is still just as thick just a different shape. Small Boats were becoming obsolete because more and more ships with heavier armor made there guns useless so the Torpedo was developed to even the playing field. Torpedo Boats were just too small and thin to be used in far off shore combat and high seas were as big a danger as the enemy hence the Destroyer was developed.

Older Torpedo's traveled slow and you had to get close. A Battleship has a ton of inertia behind the warship and it took 5 or so Km to come to a stop with the screws in reverse. So Destroyers were a fast and well Armored Ship that could steam in closer and drop torpedo's in their path.

When Subs and U-Boats started rolling around there were still plenty of Battleships, Cruisers and other big ships so Torpedo's were their main role with secondary AA to screen fleets and 3-6" Guns for fighting smaller Ships like other Destroyers, Coastal Torpedo Boats, Frigates, Light Cruisers and Corvettes. ASW Weapons were included on pretty much every ship including Destroyers but they were not purpose built nor designed for ASW unlike other ships.

Ships like the Tacoma Frigate, Everts DE and River Frigate did the majority of ASW Work while Destroyers were more Multipurpose Ships with a focus on Torpedo's. They were to expensive to be used for hunting subs since Destroyer Armor mattered very little when dealing with 500-1000lb of explosives on a Subs Torpedo. Lighter, faster, cheaper, more maneuverable ships like above were created with the specific task of finding subs.

Now days their is little difference between Destroyers, Frigate, Blue Water Corvettes and Cruisers. Their Size makes for little in their designation and most ships of these classes carry mixes of SAM, SSM, ASW and AA weapons independent of any designation. Warships are now sort of a grab bag of weapons and sizes with a random class chosen and shoved on.

My point is that I like the idea of a Sonar Module and think a T2 Destroyer would be an excellent platform because their is very little RL. Also a half ass'd history lesson.

This is stupid as hell. You could just do a scan and see where you're being watched, and where you're not. It'd ruin the entire point of cloaking.
Stop making these threads! Every time, it's the same thing -- show distance to a cloaker, using a destroyer hull for some dumb reason. No. Cloaking is fine as it is.
"I want new ships and new skills" is not a valid reason to change game balance.

This quote is physics approved.

Obvious troll is obvious. But okay, to clear that out for the not-so-smart: Why should someone find cloaked ships?