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PoS or Station add-on System Wide Decloaker.
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NeoShocker
The Dark Space Initiative
Scary Wormhole People
#1 - 2012-06-08 01:54:57 UTC
Whether it is for disrupting ratting, cloaking stealth bombers on the enterance of 0.0 gates, whatever it is. Its been a very long time, and its generally accepted as part of the tactics (psycological too) against the enemy's home/forward base.

Its a powerful tactic, probably too powerful. Virtually untouchable as soon as it warps out and cloak somewhere deep space in the solar system. You can't scan it nor can you probe a cloaking ship.

You'll never know whether it is a cloaky alt, an cloaky character with covert cyno to bring in cloaky fleet, or a simply a cloaking character(s) waiting for target of oppurtunity for pvp.

Why not add additional sovereignty benefits for the defender?

A decloaking PoS module or a station add-on. The follwing what it can/should do:

PoS Decloaking Array:
Decloaks any cloaking ships in the system
Disables re-cloak for XXX amount of time (say 30 minutes) in the system, both friendly and hostile effect.
Only one per system to be online.
Requires:
Between Strategic III to V

Station Decloaking add-on:
Function the same feature and requirement as mentioned above, except the decloaker is only available to station system.
It is destructable add-on upgrade. Similar to upgrade mechanics for the station upgrades (except those station upgrades isnt' destructable).

I think its really possible and easily implemented. Why? Well, I was a -5.0 pirate. When i'm in empire, I noticed I cannot warp cloak because of persuring NPC faction ships. So if CCP have that implemented, why not add it for defending alliances? Sure it works a little differently, but it still has the same "cannot cloak" as long as you are a pirate in a certain sec status systems.
Katalci
Kismesis
#2 - 2012-06-08 02:58:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Katalci
Remove local and this "problem" of cloaks working as intended will cease to exist.

For now, HTFU. If you can't deal with a cloaker then you are very bad at spaceships.
Vinn Kelsier
State War Academy
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-06-08 03:05:49 UTC
Will this topic ever die?

Did you get tired of complaining about the UI? Now we complain about a module that works as intended, and just because people use it effectively that is a problem?

I would like an anchor-able device that disrupts mining lasers system wide. Since I am no longer able to sneak up on miners in my cloaked ship, I want to be able to disrupt their ability to shoot rocks.

Vinn
tankus2
HeartVenom Inc.
#4 - 2012-06-08 03:44:14 UTC
for various reasons, no. This is a passive ability and, on the whole, CCP is moving eve away from passive stuff like income. If anything, a ship should be able to divine where a cloaky is (somehow, though I'd frown at an AoE pulse), not a structure.

Where the science gets done
Danika Princip
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#5 - 2012-06-08 08:42:47 UTC
NeoShocker wrote:
I am not 100% safe from everyone red when I'm in deep nullsec. CCP please change the game to make it even harder to lose ships to roaming gangs so I don't have to PVP.



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Robert Caldera
Caldera Trading and Investment
#6 - 2012-06-08 11:33:03 UTC
no.

space isnt yours so you everyone should be allowed to be everywhere in space for how long they want.
Jint Hikaru
OffWorld Exploration Inc
#7 - 2012-06-08 11:46:11 UTC
Jeebus, yet another 'hardcore 0.0' dweller who cant stand having anything dissrupt his carebearing.
Waaa, there is an unknown in 'Local' everyone stop ratting/mining/whatever and dock up.

How about remove cloaked vessels from local. Make Cloaks really cloaked. (remove their access to local for balance)

Now you dont have to p*ss your pod every time you see an unknown in the local window.

Jint Hikaru - Miner / Salvager / Explorer / SpaceBum In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.