EVE General Discussion

Except you are prevented from cloaking as soon as someone BEGINS to target you. Not after they lock you.

I'm pretty sure it works like something like this:

if (targeted == true || cloakReactivationDelay > 0) sendCloakFailMessage();
else doCloak();



Or are you looking for a physics explanation for a phenomenon in game which does not exist in the real physical world?

Maintaining a lock requires a high energy particle beam to scan and track the target. This beam is of sufficient amplitude and composition as to disrupt the quantum sheathing that the cloak must generated evenly around the ship in order to render it invisible.

It is all very logical.

I don't think the principle hinges on visual detection as much as you make it sound like.

I think the purpose of cloak is to prevent you from being locked by making enemy sensors think you are not there. But once you get locked it would pointless to try that because the location of the mass has already been pinpointed. And even if you did various logical prediction procedures could have been carried out in order to try and locate the mass again.

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The cloaking device does not make your ship truly invisible, it simply masks most details about your ship and location to nearby and far away capsuleers. Once another ship locks onto you with their targeting mechanisms, their ship computers are keeping detailed information on your ship (heading, velocity, and other pertinent information), and so it is very reasonable to believe that should you try to cloak, it would be ineffective as the focused targetting system would know exactly where to look for you, and so your cloak wouldn't hide you. It is also reasonable that any ship targetting you would broadcast your position to other ships nearby, so that they too could instantly discern your position. In a day and age as far advanced as the eve universe is, instantaneous 3D coordinate relaying would be old technology.

As for why the cloak doesn't actually activate, that's a simple matter of game mechanics. Allowing your to activate your cloak with no effect would be far too confusing for many players, would not be of meaningful benefit to the game, and would further complicate things if the enemy lost their lost on you. Would the cloak then conceal your ship, preventing you from warping off, or would you then need to disable it, providing that you realized you werent truly cloaked all along?

Because they are cloaked ?

I would imagine locking to cause more than just guns and modules to follow the target. Instead, it would be more like projecting some sort of emission onto the target that interferes with warp and allows for superior tracking of targets in space. This would go along the lines of targeting not actually being based on visual acquire meant of the target but rather some sort of signature.

Example, instead if having my computer follow a ship visually, emote something that is easy for me to follow onto the ship. Now suppose a side effect of this radiation, chemical, whatever, is that it interferes with cloaking the ship.

This.

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The prototype of an advanced cloaking mechanism was one of the last major technological breakthroughs to come out of Crielere Labs. Although it does work it is not really a finished product and has some serious drawbacks, most notably the fact that the module creates high sensor disruption while fitted and can not operate unless at minimum velocity.

So any type of focussed electronics such as targeting systems mess with it's highly unstable operation.