Topic says it all.

Why:

1. You are not playing the game but yet you still are

2. Your getting an indirect benefits in many ways and your still not playing the game

I don't realy care how this is dealt with. My solution would be a heavy water fuel bay to the claoks but thats my idea.


Now lets hear the whines next.

I'll just counter this by saying. Lets add the fuelbays and scans into the game. Is there a problem then?
And if you don't get the indirect benefits of psychological warfare, well thats your problem then.

I personally don't have a cloak-able ship on my combat alt that i enjoy using so i can only speculate on what i have learnt so far, the only way in which i can see there being a method to possibly appease both sides is to have a emission rating or heat rating on the cloak. This could then build up over extended use of say a hour or what ever length of time is suitable, you could then have a scanner to scan for these emissions or heat build up. The template is in place if they used a similar model to the planet scanning for resources where by white spots indicate heat/emissions, this would also mean if these emission are produced by all ships then the best place for a cloaker is on main routes. Alternatively if its heat based the sun or volcanic planets also produce heat as do big facilities.

And not to ruin continuity in low/null sec have interference on the scanner that makes it a lot less accurate so that you could only scan down to withing say 1au of the target. That way the high sec care bares get their counter measure that is partially effective, and cloaking ops are not totally compromised.

I mean if they use the heat side of thing for the build up AFK cloaking could still happen if they leave it near say a star but then one scan would give that away in the sense no heat spots else where on the map.

Anyway what you think? viable to both sides?

The way i would suggest doing it would be it is only a dominant showing of a heat signature if the ship has been on one spot for more than a hour, kind of a if you stay still the heat radius gets bigger making it hard to hide

CCP please create another T2 Destroyer with a anti cloak role.
Cloak disruptor Probe: X% chance to disrupt all cloaks in Y(Distance) (X based on Y)

Cloaking Modules can be re-engaged normally after (very short) cooldown timer (give active probers a chance to hunt for ship before it cloaks again.

Problems solved :)

And yes, removing cloaks from Local is also a good idea.