xavier69
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Posted - 2007.11.25 02:10:00 -
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Can a cloak be activated after a jump, and before the initial decloak?
Is there any way to discover or kill a cloaked ship?
If I fit a prototype cloaking device on my ship and activate it after every jump, can I consider myself safe from attack?
#1 No, however you can start the align and recloak before anyone could ever target you with max skills, however be advised you will go so slowly while cloaked with a crapy cloak dev someone with a mwd could bump you and decloak you.
#2 While cloaked no however no ships other than the cov ops frigates can warp while cloaked, On those you can even turn the cloak on after you start the warp and turn it off during.
#3 The best way to answer this question you will be safer but not the safest. Using the basic cloaking device is really a taste of how good it can get, The biggest problem with standard cloaking devices and danger factor, 30 sec re-activation time, so if you bump something with in 2km you have to wait 30secs to turn it back on, in the ships intended to do this its 5 secs, also the -speed factor is the other major issue.
Suggestions, train up the cov ops path, its very rewarding in empire as no suicide ganks can get you or scan your crago. Also its a +10 donĘt war that guy he will spy on me and come back while my pants are down mining and own me in my hulk.
The core facts
1. Cov ops frigates warp while cloaked, the only time you have to drop the cloak is jump or dock which if timed right is less than 2secs.
2. Speed factor cov ops frigate has 0% movement pent I do 599M/S while cloaked normal speed.
3. Speed factor in the Stealth bomber, +37% movement speed while cloaked (ThatĘs right I go 122M/S faster while cloaked.
4. Once your targeted you canĘt cloak. 30 sec recloak cool down in a tight spot is death, 5sec is easily doable and if not a damp or scram always works, but 30secs reactivation time is death.
Something I will point out the only place you are completely safe is in an npc station in empire, however outside of that you have different levels of safe. A cov ops pilot with the sp, real exp and guidance of other cov ops pilots are the hardest to be killed in the game hands down. Not because they kill the other guy in his Uber ship but because they are never found by him. However when they are itĘs always in a situation of their choosing and they certainly have the upper hand in the battle about to begin.
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