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Cloaking and bigger ships

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Airdorn
Tempest Vector
#1 - 2014-02-08 02:09:58 UTC  |  Edited by: ISD Ezwal
Bigger ships should take longer to cloak than smaller ships. I mean, seriously...

A carrier cloaks as fast as an itty-bitty frigate? It'd make sense if the cloak module was broken down into S, M, L, and XL ... but it isn't. So the idea of some tiny module making some kind of light-bending field that covers a massive carrier or titan as effectively as a frigate is just absurd.

So let's get on it, dev team.

Either make cloaks sized for ship class, or make ships take longer to cloak the larger they are!

Flame on, people! Let's talk about this serious Internet spaceship business.


*Snip* Please refrain from using profanity. ISD Ezwal.
Jaro Essa
Dahkur Forge
#2 - 2014-02-08 02:37:10 UTC
Larger and slower ships are obviously easier for other ships to bump and decloak, and this already balances the instantaneous nature of cloaking devices somewhat.
ISD Ezwal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#3 - 2014-02-08 22:30:12 UTC  |  Edited by: ISD Ezwal
I have removed some replies to the edited out part of the OP's post.
Advice to the OP: don't post such unnecessary hurtful things again please. Ever.

ISD Ezwal Community Communication Liaisons (CCLs)
Mag's
Azn Empire
#4 - 2014-02-09 00:10:37 UTC
ISD Ezwal wrote:
I have removed some replies to the edited out part of the OP's post.
Advice to the OP: don't post such unnecessary hurtful things again please. Ever.
Thank you.

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Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#5 - 2014-02-09 00:39:27 UTC
Awww... did you fail to probe down a ratting carrier before it could safe and cloak?



How about simply changing the speed of cloaking for each type of cloaking device? T1 should be the slowest, the t2 should be quicker, the higher the meta, the quicker the cloak. The cov ops cloak should remain unaffected due tot he fact that there are only a few choice hulls that can fit it anyways.

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Arthur Aihaken
CODE.d
#6 - 2014-02-09 01:39:01 UTC
Jaro Essa wrote:
Larger and slower ships are obviously easier for other ships to bump and decloak, and this already balances the instantaneous nature of cloaking devices somewhat.

Yeah, basically this.

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