EVE General Discussion

I've been thinking about "targeting systems" in the EvE online. When you cloak your ship, and uncloak, you can't lock your target since you're calibrating your systems (example: normal cloak in a non-covert ship).. So it says..

So, would it be logical that when you uncloak your non-covert vessel, your ship starts to calibrate locking systems and it would need same amount of time to get in warp than lock? Since when you try to warp (ie. corpse/drone) it says something like can't lock into target to warp because the object is too small.

Also been thinking about cloak mechanics concerning afk cloakers. I know its sooooo old topic, but even I like to play coverts/recons A LOT i've started to think solutions for it.

A) Cloak uses cap when activated, it drains cap like down to 5% of total amount, and keeps it there OR

B) Cloak has its own capacitor (example: blue cap circle) which stays on certain amount of time (depends on skill), lets say like 2-3h before it goes empty and ship decloaks, and uses a cap booster OR theres a some 5 minutes recharge time w/o booster when its full again.

ofcourse there would be major differencies with non-covert/recons and normal ships using non-covert cloaks.

Your warp drive locks on to gravity wells and beacons. Whereas your electronic targeting systems lock on to small signatures. Completely different kinds of locking.

With that said, I'd say the best change to cloaking would have the cloak modules accumulate something similar to heat while active, and cool down to their normal state while inactive.

nevermind that by definition an afk cloaker is not trying to lock onto or warp to something

That's a goodd point, but still its based on locking systems as told in the game.

All the game does in this regard is use the word "lock" for two completely different subjects. Cloaking shuts down your electronic systems, but it does nothing as far as the warp drive is concerned. Take a look at covert ops frigates, they can warp around just fine with a cloak on.

Thats true, but was talking about non-coverts.

So you were. My bad.

I don't think such change would have a visible impact on AFK cloaking, though.

Whats your problem? Getting things purposely wrong or?

Eh, wormhole corps deal with cloakies all the time by blowing them up. How? By actively scouting our space as well as the space adjanced to it, by working for our intel and knowing when someone comes over, which in return gives us the opportunity to blow them up. We manage to do all that despite all of the connections being randomly spawning at places that we have no advance warning of, stuff don't just magically appear on our overviews to let us know that "hey, maybe this thing labeled stargate is where they're coming from". Despite that, we do it day in and day out. I don't believe for a second that nullbears are as bad as they make themselves appear to be with posts about the afk cloakers, it'd be nice to see them show my belief to be true, even once.

The gravimetric targeting systems suggest otherwise.