Ships & Modules

Actually having a cloaking device on a ship and a good ss in a system make u be 100% safe forever:

i want propose to set a limited time that at least covert ops cloaking device can operate continuously, smth like 1 or 2h max (maybe based on meta lvl of the item for others if this can be extended to named version) and a "cooldown timer" (to prevent ppl to deactivate and reactivate it after few seconds) that is in a fraction (just some seconds anyway) of how long it has been countinuously on.

For example, if 2h will be max time a covert ops cloak can operate continuously and max cooldown timer is set to 120s, a covert op frig that has run the cloak continuously for 1h won't be able to reactivate it for 60s .

Still the actual reactivation delay threshold should be the lowest cooldown possible - maybe changing actual valors - (so 5s for covert ops frigs = 300s of continuous operativity of the cloak: meaning tha a covert frig can run the cloak continuously for 5 minutes before start getting a penalty on reactivation delay or 30s = 30m of continuos operation for a T3 with covops sub and covop cloak: that also will mean that after 30 minutes of "stealth mode" both covop frigs and T3 will have exactly the same reactivation delay but for lower period covops will still be able to reactivate the cloak before the T3)

This will keep the advantage of covops ships but will even force pilot to plan the afk time or be awake at the pc

Another way, more simple to explain and understand but maybe harder for developers, could be to carving out the aforementioned "variable cooldown period", keep the max time a cloak can be on continuously (still 2h for example) and let that 2h timer be reset by pilot by proving he's at the screen (passing ship from 0 to max speed or vice versa, changing direction, anything else requiring some kind of imput from player that can be done without need to decloak the ship) letting ship even be cloaked forever (but somebody must be there to reset the timer :)

Pls understand that numbers i used are just an to make examples

What do u think?
No bullshit pls, no time for that :)

So introducing a significant penalty to anyone who uses covert ops vessels for camping/hunting/scanning actively. All to essentially eliminate one of the probably intended purposes of cloaking.

Seems a flawed premise from the beginning.

Only 100th? I thought we would be well past that by now.

there needs to be a sticky in all caps and red font color: AFK CLOAKING IS WORKING AS INTENDED

This feature already exists, confirming i cannot afk cloak during downtime.

I am not totally unopposed to the idea of making, for example, cloaks consume capacitor and stopping cap re-gen when ship is cloaked.

Only problem with that is ofc that warping around consumes capacitor so any mobile cloaked ship would burn through it's capacitor reserve rather fast. Perhasps make it so that ships that can use cov ops cloak do not use capacitor when warping. Or have a different capacitor.

Making them burn some kind of fuel, on the other hand screws over the wormhole people.

Anyway - at the end of a day afk cloakers are an attitude problem not a game mechanics problem. All you need is some buffer, cyno and some friends in range.

Why do you care if the cloaked player is ATK or not???

Is this a stealth 'I wanna check if my boyfriend is really playing EVE like he tells me' thread???

What makes you think YOUR thread will be THE ONE that will make the devs change their mind on introducing completely useless mechanics???

In before the lock.

Naughty Fenix,
Do you or one of your alts fly in deep null space shooting rats all day?