Originally by: Xelios

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Now there is no surprise in fleet combat or small skirmishes.Many people attempt to get my postion when sniping using a cloaker but I always know thye are there and warp off as soon as their mates jump into local.The fact is covert ops are just a minor inconvenience for the expert player and no threat to anyone in a bs.

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Well yes, that's one of their purposes really. Without that cloaked ship you wouldn't even have to warp, you could wait until they jump in, snipe their support which is mwding toward you and warp out as soon as you feel threatened. Once they have a covert ops in the system, and you know about it, you are effectively eliminated as a threat. They may not kill you, but you won't kill any of them either, not without dying yourself.

Not to mention their extreme usefulness in warping to probed safe spots, setting up warp in points for fleets, setting up sniper points and gathering intel on enemy deployment/strength. The fact that every half decent fleet has at least one covert ops is testament enough to their value in pvp.

So no thank you, I'd rather not have them invisible on scanner and in local. Know why? Because as soon as you see local blip once you'll have to safe spot and literally log off. Even if local blips again who knows if that was the cloaked ship warping or jumping out? Or deploying probes? Or just turning off cloak for the hell of it? That cloaked ship could still be in system 30 minutes later, just waiting for you to go back to your belt. A group of cloaked BS could just sit cloaked in a random belt until you feel they're gone, then jump you as soon as you start mining or whatever.

Horrible, horrible idea. If it's ever implemented they'd better implement system wide scan probes that can pick up cloaked ships too.

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