Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Personally I feel its frustrating to go into lower security areas of space, particularly sov space and find that your cloaky hunter is almost useless becuase of the local channel, and I would also like some sort of highly specialized 'cloak' hunting ship or black ops module.

I think they should tie in local with sov costs, sov alliances pay maintenance to have a local channel (available to everyone and no they shouldnt be able to turn it off and on at will, although tying it in with a sov or pos structure might prove interesting) it would also give a logical reason why npc space (including empire) would have a local channel and make tonnes of unclaimed sov systems just like wormhole space.

Decloaking....

What was that bumping noise?

OMG, hostile thread on the first page! Dock up!

Yeah, this thread serves CCP by illustrating an effort to consolidate cloaking complaint threads.

Winning.

I appreciate the linking.

Hopefully something will happen to eliminate complaints about cloaking, like understanding of balance more objectively.

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It also made for an excellent bump.

I think that is a great idea, and I appreciate that link here!

The key point of the idea, is that I worked from the vantage of how to balance hunting cloaks against cloaking, and just tweaked the details as little as possible from existing game mechanics.

The differences between it and cloaking?
The module, when activated, doesn't cloak the ship. It just enables the sensors and any probes controlled by the user to detect cloaked vessels as if they were not cloaked.

Number of targets? As dictated by the ship being flown. Same with your targeting range.
Can you use other modules besides this while it is active? No.
(This means you can't shoot cloaked vessels, just spot them)

What do you do when you spot them?
You lock them. Existing game mechanics won't allow a locked vessel to cloak, this simply allows specially equipped ships to lock already cloaked ships.

What happens next? Same as existing game play for any vessel capable of cloaking that has been locked. It either fights or runs, and other ships can also target and shoot at it.
The spotting vessel can also shoot, so long as it toggles off the spotter module before engaging any weapons.

I think this needs to be stickied, so noobs can see how their ideas aren't new!

Indeed. Because it seems some can't even look past page one, to see if this topic has been discussed before.