Selia Evrion
Gallente
Night-Stalkerz
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
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Posted - 2009.05.09 04:01:00 -
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I'm really failing to see the issue here.
So a cloaker is supposedly "shutting down a system". Let's look at this in basic terms.
You see a red in system. Presumably, you alert fellows to the possibility that he may be active and killing people. Either your intel gets heeded or someone says "he's been there all day".
Now, assuming you're ratting in a space that is relatively safe (I'm assuming most of us don't go into alliance border systems, in order to do our ratting  ) you should be fine.
Even if the cloaker is active, you will have friends around that can take him out. If the cloaker isn't active, you have nothing to worry about. So, all the people complaining that you "can't rat in system with a cloaker there" are obviously not following the "safe ratting" caveats:
1. Rat near friendly hubs.
2. Fly what you can afford to lose.
3. Look at your intel.
4. Get intel on the player - chances are they've been doing this for a while, so someone can report whether they're a cloaker or not.
5. Pay attention to your goddamn overview.
6. Pay attention to your goddamn overview. Really, there's no excuse for a ship coming out of cloak to have you locked down if you're paying attention. On the chance that you're ratting in something that takes longer to align than the time it takes them to decloak, wait for sensor calibration and lock you, then you should have long enough for friends to come to your rescue. Assuming of course, that you follow caveat 1.
And if it's not a ship that can warp cloaked, then you shouldn't have ANY problems. If he comes in while you're ratting, you'll see him on your overview.
If your only problem with cloaking is that you can't find that one guy in a cloaked raven, then your issue is not with him shutting down a system, it's with someone who has sacrificed something on his ship in order to increase his survivability.
tl;dr Cloaks are fine, follow safe ratting rules and you'll be fine. Don't be scared just because one red is in system.
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