before you flame the idea think about the sort of game play that can be created.

Wormhole death wall. Sure sounds fun for everyone.

Obviously certain class of modules would not be available to be fit to prevent it from being to overpowering.

Ships that cannot fit warp disruption?

I'm going to go with no and for this reason: All of a sudden you are alphaed off the field and have no fracking clue by who or how to counter it (except in the Kill Mail).

I think you need to think out these ideas a bit more and provide reasons for + and - in your OP and not use "because it looks cool in the movies".

Cloaks work now because either they are on Cov-Ops haulers or they have a targeting lock delay when they do drop cloak so 1) you have time to react 2) they aren't overpowered.

I don't mean to be harsh but a little more fleshing out and you may get some juices flowing.

Ships that can cause damage while avoiding damage completely (one cannot lock or shoot cloaked targets)?
This is just broken from day one.

Broken in todays eve..

Think out the box and be creative.

bad for two reasons:

1. shooting while cloaked is totally overpowered for some obvious reason like no one can shot back.
2. In order to make this mechanic work (if by some idiotic reason CCP decides to put something like this in game ) there will have to be a new mechanic that will allow decloaking ships besides the 2500 m proximity and that will be bad because it will ruin the all ready existing cloaked ships in game that uses cloak as a defense and surprise attack.

2. In order to make this mechanic work (if by some idiotic reason CCP decides to put something like this in game ) there will have to be a new mechanic that will allow decloaking ships besides the 2500 m proximity and that will be bad because it will ruin the all ready existing cloaked ships in game that uses cloak as a defense and surprise attack.

PvP with invisible opponent is never a good idea for MMOs. No amount of thinking or debating will change that.

Why is it a bad idea to add a mechanic to decloak ships?

I am thinking something along the lines of some sort of pulse that has an area of effect of perhaps 25km. When the pulse emits ships caught in the are of effect are capped out forcing the cloak offline.

You see what I did there?

Yes, you made it impossible to run through gatecamps. As well as impossible to defend yourself. Well done.

Why is it a bad idea to add a mechanic to decloak ships?

I am thinking something along the lines of some sort of pulse that has an area of effect of perhaps 25km. When the pulse emits ships caught in the are of effect are capped out forcing the cloak offline.

You see what I did there?

shooting while cloaked gets a def neg 1 from me.

huh? why the edit, you actually make some good points if this idea, was to ever come to the game.

Why is it a bad idea to add a mechanic to decloak ships?

I am thinking something along the lines of some sort of pulse that has an area of effect of perhaps 25km. When the pulse emits ships caught in the are of effect are capped out forcing the cloak offline.

You see what I did there?

OK it seems that you are incapable of thinking about a new type of game play that is not within eve's current offering. Yes the idea in todays eve is unbalanced, but you've acted like a drone and not actually debated anything. "It's so unbalanced" - but what could counter-act a ship that can fire cloaked.

This is debating and brainstorming and is perfectly acceptable in the section named Features & Ideas Discussion.

OK it seems that you are incapable of thinking about a new type of game play that is not within eve's current offering. Yes the idea in todays eve is unbalanced, but you've acted like a drone and not actually debated anything. "It's so unbalanced" - but what could counter-act a ship that can fire cloaked.

This is debating and brainstorming and is perfectly acceptable in the section named Features & Ideas Discussion.

Why is it a bad idea to add a mechanic to decloak ships?

I am thinking something along the lines of some sort of pulse that has an area of effect of perhaps 25km. When the pulse emits ships caught in the are of effect are capped out forcing the cloak offline.

You see what I did there?

first of all such a mechanic will render cloaked ships useless.....cov ops, bomber recons t3 when they use the covert cloak they trade off dps speed and tank for the ability to use them and the cloak is their main defense. Adding a mechanic that decloaks everything in 25 km will make passing throu gate camps impossible.Will render bombing runs on the gates on drag bubble and of any different spots useless if u can just click and decloak all bombers.
Second of all putting new game mechanics that will brake another game mechanic just for the sake of fighting cloaked is insane at best and no matter how many arguments u can bring to the table its still something that will be over powered and game braking .
I know its the ideas discussion section of the forum but posting game braking ideas just for the sake of posting anything its not best way to spend your time on the forum.

I agree - bad idea. It hasn't worked or been done in any other game. Because it's overpowered. Any sort of mechanic that disables your ability to attack your target is overpowered and even by adding in things you can do. Its still overpowered, even if you manage to decloak them with the thing you have to do. Only then does the fight start

And that is different to a falcon sat jamming you or an arazu sensor dampening you or a pilgrim being under your optimal with tracking disrupters.