Player Features and Ideas Discussion

There is nothing, NOTHING worse than a cloaky sitting afk in your system ALL FREAKIN DAY. Yeah HTFU or go to a different system, but what I'd like to propose is a way to detect cloaky ships.

As with all good ideas, its been used before, and its been done by Star Trek. I propose something similar to the Tachyon Detection Network used in the episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation Redemption II.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Redemption_II_%28episode%29

And specifically

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Tachyon_detection_grid

Check it out on Netflix, I'll wait.

http://www.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70177963

You done?

Anyhow the idea for those not Trek savvy is to send out a fleet of ships that are emitting a beam of Tachyon particles at each other to form a grid or web of beams. Any ships crossing that path will be detected, not sure if that means they'll be de-cloaked, or appear on sensors.

My proposition is to create a high slot module that will send and receive this beam of particles. In order to use this method, you need to have at least two ships, so both can send and receive the beam.

Ideally I would like it to be so that you place your ships in strategic points across your system and activate the beams. The beam would fan out like a cone in the direction of its sister ship. If you wanted to create a larger grid on more axis, you'd have to have more high slot modules to link with the other ships in the system.

Alternatively you can just make it so the ships on a system grid can create the grid of beams. I prefer the larger system-wide grid, but I also like to PvE in peace.

Once the grid is active and a cloaked ship intersects the beam, the ship is immediately decloacked and cannot recloak for 5 minutes while the ship degausses the manifold sprocket to unscramble the diodes (or whatever). In that time a scanning ship can scan down the ship, get a warp in and then pop it with much satisfaction.

Of course a non-afk cloaker could be made aware of the de-loaking attempt and allow them time to find another safespot, change system or wait in glee for its prey to warp to it.

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StimpyCat

AFK cloakers are a necessary response to the use of local as an intelligence gathering tool. Any attempt to target AFK cloakers that does not limit the ability of the residents of an area to use local to detect all threats would be seriously unbalanced and a non-starter.

Remind me again how afk cloakers can hurt you? Grow a pair.

All I am doing is introducing an element of risk for AFK Cloakers. Whether you're the prey or the predator, there should be an element of risk otherwise its too easy.

It sucks when the cloak comes off. there is risk. :P

most cloaky ships are brittle as hell, (note: Not all) thus sometimes their only ability to survive is to cloak up.

With no safe place in eve cloak is a must have in my opinion. Some players, yes I'm one of them, need to hit the safe spot and cloak up to take a leak, or more importantly take care of a child.

No pause button, sometimes no place to dock, a safe spot and a cloaking device is the only answer to a few of those things.

And in response to the cloak being the balance to local. I say keep the cloak and remove that stupid local. ESPECIALLY in null sec. It is so dumb that a channel broadcasts everyone who enters and leaves a system. I think all Null sec systems should have no instant local list. Exactly like wormholes.