Krell Kroenen wrote:3. I would love to see some means to combat cloaked ships. As someone else in the thread stated you should never feel 100 percent safe in Eve. That should include cloaked ships.
Try
a) log it off with hostiles in local
b) decloak and engage with hostiles in local
c) realise that a sub 20mil ship and 5 seconds is all the hostiles need to counter you
d) realise that some cooperatation makes your blob more powerful than any cloaker ever
It's only dumb players who are afraid of cloaks. No offense meant. But the three tools we small scale PvPers have at our disposable against blobs today is: cloaks, WH, and highsec wardecs. You used to be able to add 'superior tactic' and 'speed' to that list, but the amount of players (and Falcons) EVE have nowadays makes it near-impossible to pull that off.
I went to a hostile nullsec some days ago, in a Recon and a regular combat ship but with a cloak fitted. Someways throught he pipe I had ten guys in a system ahead, so I cloaked up. The gate behind me now quickly filled up with 50 guys, including several combat probers and at least five dictors. If I at this point logged off I'd died 100%. If I decloaked I'd be hard pressed to kill anything before I was tackled myself. The hypothetical question here would be which of these groups that are a worse threat to EVE (combat wise)? The second question is what risk a PvE ship that cloaks up and hide from you is from your PvE income?
TL;DR cloaks do zero harm to their game, they only annoy people who can't find the pilots. Personally as I said, I use cloaks alot, but I also hunt other cloakers. And I'm quite successful. With some brains, bubbles and/or combat probing, you can catch every cloaker in this game, from cloaking ratting Drakes to Recons to hell even Capitals.
The cloakers arn't safe, and with any introduction of a way to 100% find cloakers, you have reduced one of the best ways to hunt and/or live in hostile null. You have also completely dumbed down the game for stupid players who don't know how to find cloakers. And ignorant players who believe cloakers are a threat, just because they don't know how to fleet up and/or probe and/or bubble and/or scout.
Only bad players die to cloakers. And none of your rats die to that cloaking PvE ship in local, as long as you stay there. If you're so annoyed to see them in local, I suggest you close that window and use the dscan instead.