because op

Consider this - the Sisters of EVE are not in anyway a war like organisation. Their ships have weapons, yes, but they are designed to defend themselves, and not go as the first gun; think of the 30 seconds delay as them having an older variant of the Covert Ops computer systems, which while having the computational ability to handle the Covert Ops system, does not have the capacity to handle the immense requirement to re-cloak immediately:

They after all a Humanitarian organisation and not one of the major 4 empires.

Posting in a "gimmie OP win button" thread...

It can warp while cloaked. Count your blessings, bro.

It could EASILY be worse. They had full justification to not letting us actually fit Cov Ops cloaks, so the SoE ships would show up on D-scan too.

Just pick your fights correctly, and you won't have to worry about recloaking.

No

Consider this - the Sisters of EVE are not in anyway a war like organisation. Their ships have weapons, yes, but they are designed to defend themselves, and not go as the first gun; think of the 30 seconds delay as them having an older variant of the Covert Ops computer systems, which while having the computational ability to handle the Covert Ops system, does not have the capacity to handle the immense requirement to re-cloak immediately:

They after all a Humanitarian organisation and not one of the major 4 empires.

Consider this - the Sisters of EVE are not in anyway a war like organisation. Their ships have weapons, yes, but they are designed to defend themselves, and not go as the first gun; think of the 30 seconds delay as them having an older variant of the Covert Ops computer systems, which while having the computational ability to handle the Covert Ops system, does not have the capacity to handle the immense requirement to re-cloak immediately:

It does make sense, they aren't T2 vessels specialized in the use of a covert ops cloak.

In fact, they are the only T1 vessels (faction or otherwise) that can use them at all.

not the case at all, its an exploration ship, and waiting 30 seconds to re-cloak after uncloaking is far too long, but cheers for showing your intelligence, or lack of it anyways

I believe my corp had the first PVP loss of this ship (according to Mittani) and the loss was to a gate camp due to this cloak reactivation delay. TS became a far happier place (apart from one pilot) as we discussed cloaking delays and everyone started playing around with vaious cov ops ships to more exactly understand the mechanics.
i am glad it wasn't my SOE ships that learnt this lesson the hard way but for the sake of future hilarity could you all stop drawing attention to the cloak delay feature as you will lower the amount of fun to be had from ignorance + gate camps.

woah, so if you uncloak on a gate... jump into a new system, you can get hit by the 30s timer?

Thats ******* terrible and has nothing to do with OMG PVP BALANCE.

not the case at all, its an exploration ship, and waiting 30 seconds to re-cloak after uncloaking is far too long, but cheers for showing your intelligence, or lack of it anyways

woah, so if you uncloak on a gate... jump into a new system, you can get hit by the 30s timer?

Thats ******* terrible and has nothing to do with OMG PVP BALANCE.

Why does my Stratios have a 30 second re-cloak delay? this is not normal for covops ships?

The Stratios is NOT a covert ops ships and therefore does NOT have the covert ops cloaking delay reduction.

Be ******* happy that you even get to use the covert ops cloak on a non covert ops or Recon or BR..because they could have just as easily made it so that they can only use a standard cloak..and I couldn't image the crocodile tears youd be pouring in my GD if that was the case.

Huh! I... hadn't really thought about it like that, in all honesty. That's actually a really good point! I retract my earlier statement.

Ladies and Gentlemen!
This is the first "Buff Cloak Thread" in EVE History!
Let this moment sink in...

OP, be realistic please...
You cannot really believe that a "Servant Sisters of EVE" offer you a ship that outperforms a specialized T2 racial Recon ship, made for military operations.

Yet the stratios already does outperform them, and outperform them specifically in the role of killing things? The RP-loremaster angle is pretty weak, since humanitarian ship kills better than the military ship and hides worse.

The whole notion that they aren't covops ships is absurd. Lacking a short reactivation delay does not make them non-covops. It merely makes them covops ships that happen to have a long reactivation delay.

The delay is by no means detrimental for the explorers, which is the main purpose of the vessel. Now if you are a wannabe ganker that's something else.

I for one LOVE the Stratios. It is excellent in its capabilities and I can;t even remember the last ship that I actually looked at while doing something in EVE. Usually I'm in tactical or the screen is covered in chat windows. The Strat is so beautiful ad pleasing to the eye it made me actually play the game by looking at my ship.

A couple of points tho:

1. The drone nerf was completely unnecessary. The dps is not high enough for 4/10 now. Same goes for sleepers.

2. Capacitor is VERY bad. It's the main cause for warping out.

Still, it;s an excellent ship and I owe the designer and artists a beer or two next fanfest.

to 1. Well, I would also not complain about 5 shiphull bonused sentries in a cruiser, offering 800 DPS, plus laser turrets, pushing it to 1000+ DPS with CovOps cloak. :D
Well, believe me, the drone mbit/s nerf was more than necessary. :)

We covered that in the SoE ships announcement thread. No one will fly a 400 mil ship like that. EFT warrioring =/= real life EVE.

Do you assume that the Stratios' cost of 400M ISK will not drop?
Furthermore, with 5 sentries I would fly the Stratios exactly the way how I pointed out above. 400M ISK or not...400M ISK would not really bother me, if I could fly an OP-ship.

I wonder why would anyone do such a thing when you can fly something cheaper that is actually made for pvp and can do as much dps as the eft warrior-paper only Statios fits.

I was in Amarr last night and if memory serves the cruiser was going for less than half that amount.

185mil sticks in my mind, but I wasn't paying that close of attention... so take that with a grain of salt.

LOL, maybe I'm thinking of the frigate.

Because the CovOps cloak with that crapload of DPS would allow me to chose my targets more efficiently, position myself much better, plainly win much more fights... :)

As others have said, the ships flaws are hindering it's worthwhile use in it's primary role.

Reduce the cloak reactivation delay to 15 seconds to facilitate uninterrupted travel.

Increase the sensor recalibration time to compensate.

The ship is not meant to be a hunter, it is however meant to be a traveller.

Right now it is incredibly frustrating to stealthily travel in.