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Telemicus Thrace
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Posted - 2006.11.09 06:45:00 -
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 Originally by: James Duar
I was just wondering if anyone has managed to use cloaking devices to do something movie-esque awesome, like decloak a bunch of ships to spring a trap on someone or something.
Basically, something more interesting then cloaking a carrier at an SS.
Well I don't know how you'd rate these as movie-esque but if the baseline is hiding at a SS I'll spill.
Probably the most dramatic was on a cargo run. My Prowler got chased accross five systems by an interceptor. He was right on me. We'd jump through a gate at the same time and I would only just get to warp before he locked me on the other side of the gate.
When I got to my destination I had to do a 170 deg turn to warp and decided my luck had held long enough. I warp towards the gate most in line at 60km and cloaked as soon as I got out of warp. I started to align under cloak and watched the inty run straight through the gate. I decloaked and warped off, before I dropped out of warp he had reappeared in local so the trick didn't fool him long.
Long enough though.
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Posted - 2006.11.09 07:36:00 -
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Originally by: Valtaya
Originally by: James Duar
I was just wondering if anyone has managed to use cloaking devices to do something movie-esque awesome, like decloak a bunch of ships to spring a trap on someone or something.
Basically, something more interesting then cloaking a carrier at an SS.
Problem with using cloaks to spring a trap is that they have a recalibration time preventing you from locking targets, and with a Prototype cloak, and cloaking 5, the shortest you can get that time to is 15seconds, which is quite a long time :(
Smartbombs are unaffected by this. 
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Posted - 2006.11.09 09:40:00 -
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Originally by: Nathan Grey
Originally by: Telemicus Thrace
Originally by: James Duar
I was just wondering if anyone has managed to use cloaking devices to do something movie-esque awesome, like decloak a bunch of ships to spring a trap on someone or something.
Basically, something more interesting then cloaking a carrier at an SS.
Well I don't know how you'd rate these as movie-esque but if the baseline is hiding at a SS I'll spill.
Probably the most dramatic was on a cargo run. My Prowler got chased accross five systems by an interceptor. He was right on me. We'd jump through a gate at the same time and I would only just get to warp before he locked me on the other side of the gate.
When I got to my destination I had to do a 170 deg turn to warp and decided my luck had held long enough. I warp towards the gate most in line at 60km and cloaked as soon as I got out of warp. I started to align under cloak and watched the inty run straight through the gate. I decloaked and warped off, before I dropped out of warp he had reappeared in local so the trick didn't fool him long.
Long enough though.
Zzzz. I had four intys chase my Prowler out in Curse. Couldn't stop me.
What do you want? a medal? I get chased about in my Prowler all the time. That incident was one where I used the cloak. Like what the OP asked about. Point?
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