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Cleric
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Posted - 2003.08.02 17:16:00 -
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*******s to all that, just bring out a weapon called CTD "Crash To Desktop"
No wait... CCP has it and they use it repeatedly everyday. Nevermind 
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Sedsiss
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Posted - 2003.08.03 04:40:00 -
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Edited by: Sedsiss on 03/08/2003 04:55:36
Edited by: Sedsiss on 03/08/2003 04:50:21
Heres an idea
Why not make it so when you cloak theres a 99% chance of your ship self destructing, then all your isk being sent to a random person, followed by all your characters being perma-deleted! That way no one will use cloaks, god forbid a fun module ever comes out, nooo we need to make it to it not only is not worth using, but hurts phyiscally if you have the gall to use it.
Keep them extremely rare, EXTREME skill limits, and have counter measures that are also hard to find, and also require a lot of skills. The -100% shield factor is more than enough of a limit. Besides, I doubt it was ever the intention to allow them to to fire while cloaked. -100% shields means when he decloaks, he has 0 shields, they would need to recharge.
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Ruffles
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Posted - 2003.08.03 11:50:00 -
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Edited by: Ruffles on 03/08/2003 11:53:50
Please dont call it cloaking.
Its invisibility people are asking for plain and simple.
DAoC turned into a 60% of all pvp players were stealther types, and if you do something like this, you will get the same effect.
It is always overpowered.
If you aren't able to lock, that doesn't mean anything. You sneak up where they can't see you, and fire a FoF missile. Boom, the attack began and you got a free hit.
Please please please, stop and think. I really hope this isn't put in personally, the effect of running away from combat for 5 seconds and then completely vanishing without the ability to be tracked in any way, shape or form, means you are able to perform the perfect hit and runs with next to no issues.
You really need to have people stop and think heavily on this issue.
- What about passive targetting?
- Would that work whilst cloaked still?
- Fire and forget missiles, could these be launched?
- Could someone just cloak again in fight and escape?
- Will there be means to detect cloaked ships?
- Will you just be able to have a fleet of battleships all of a sudden appear from no where?
You can't just allow the shields to restore after coming out of cloak either, that makes the thing just too powerful. So what they have no shields whilst hidden, they can't be seen or targetted, so whats the issue?
Please, if anyone ever goes down this route, really have a seriously hard think about this, or this game like any other will just turn into stealth wars. :(
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Mark A
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Posted - 2003.08.03 11:57:00 -
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The fact that ships can't fire while cloaked is well-documented in sci-fi literature :)
The -100% shields should apply only while cloaked, ie when you uncloak you have no shields but they will start to recharge at that point.
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Entity
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Posted - 2003.08.03 12:09:00 -
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I just can't wait to see all the whining on the boards about cloaked ore thiefs when cloak gets in 
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ga'ia
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Posted - 2003.08.03 13:15:00 -
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I dont know if you missunderstood me or something, the -100% shield _HP_ is upon ACTIVATION, and will regen as usual. Sure, it has some balancing issues but a game like can¦t really be without it imo. I have full confidens in the devs to find a suitable solution to this 
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Zyrla Bladestorm
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Posted - 2003.08.03 17:11:00 -
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during a beta dev-chat in the month before release they said the cloaking modules were already finished, but they were waiting to add them till they had all the existing elements finished/balanced and had time to devote to making sure cloaking would be balanced when added.
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Apologys for any rambling that may have just occurred.
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Scragg
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Posted - 2003.08.03 17:13:00 -
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You can cloak now. It's called ECM.
Scragg, Tyrell Corporation
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ga'ia
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Posted - 2003.08.03 23:11:00 -
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cloak
Pronunciation: (klOk)
ùn.
1. a loose outer garment, as a cape or coat.
2. something that covers or conceals; disguise; pretense: He conducts his affairs under a cloak of secrecy.
ùv.t.
1. to cover with or as if with a cloak: She arrived at the opera cloaked in green velvet.
2. to hide; conceal: The mission was cloaked in mystery.
No, its not ECM atm sort to speak, but will be if this is correct http://www.eve-online.com/background/potw/dec1.asp.
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ViperMaul
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Posted - 2003.08.04 01:19:00 -
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No, its not ECM atm sort to speak, but will be if this is correct http://www.eve-online.com/background/potw/dec1.asp.
Interesting.
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