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Kotorr Vepar
Caldari
Irillia Corporation
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Posted - 2006.11.23 02:20:00 -
[91]
 Originally by: Adriana Cita
The cloak offers a level of uncertainty to the play of the game, you donÆt always know where your enemy/victim is IRL, so whatÆs the difference. For me to jump into system and then not show up on scanners, while your sitting on the gate scares you. You cannot see where I am and you donÆt know if I have any buddies coming through. Its a tactical advantage...
Cloaking ships like the covert or recon warp in cloak to do RECON, its unseen surveillance. Ships like a battle ship (and you can use a cloak effectively on them) have to warp in uncloaked, true they can sit at a safe spot cloaked, but to move again they have to de-cloak - nullifying their ability to get up and personal without being seen unless they were sitting there already. And even then they have to wait 4 to 10 seconds to fire, and at a slower rate to lock.
I have to agree with the first part. I like the uncertainty of EVE. To be honest, I don't think there's enough uncertainty. As it is, you already know exactly where everyone is when they're not cloaked. That's way too much information. It shouldn't be that easy to find someone, even when they're not cloaked.
It would be nice if prototype cloaks did not entirely shroud its user from detection, but rather reduce its detectability by 50-75%. The improved cloak could reduce detectability by 75-90%. It's difficult to make this work with the current sensor system though, where you're either detected, or you're fully cloaked. The sensor system currently used in Eve would have to be overhauled in my opinion, but that's not a bad thing. At least one type of sensor system overhaul would allow for this, and there's a link to it in my signature. 
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Sophia Stormbringer
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Posted - 2006.11.23 08:10:00 -
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Penalize cloaking devices more in any way and you might as well remove them from the game completely because nobody would be using them anyways, simple as that!
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James Duar
Merch Industrial
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Posted - 2006.11.23 12:00:00 -
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Hm...the idea of manually firing your guns appeals to me just because...well I like the "submarine warfare" feel to it. But it has issues since it reduces the effectiveness of jamming vs large targets. As it is I think with Kali giving us the ability to scan down cloaked ships and current techniques for uncloaking (sweeping an area with ships/drones) we should just see what it's like.
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Agrias Hellion
Diligentia Sodalitas
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Posted - 2006.11.24 06:38:00 -
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Meh kinda defeats the purpose of being cloaked.
Sonar wouldn't work too well, the amount of **** that floats around in space would give some, interesting results.
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