I have a request for cloaky ships. Im pretty sure im not the only one who has these problems.

1. Can we have a proximity alarm for when you delcoak so you know whats up? Its hard wif you have different overview sorting to keep tabs on the closest target. Nearly impossible to see in time.

This is necessary because you begin to decloak long before your ship model is visible to you. By the time you can see you are decloaking..youre dead. Its happened to me countless times. I cant have everything on overview all the time so there may be a can or some crap that im next to, and i cant see it.

So..if you are cloaked and some object gets within 5k of you, start sounding it.

2. Can you make the cloak activated module look a bit different? Its so faded green and you cant see it all the time, on green background...its bad. And lots of other ones too. Make it all flash green not just the outline. And if it turns off, have it red please.

Thanks

PS
...and all you hardcore players who "Well you need 8 eyes and 9 hands, so better get used to it..." shove it. :)

I wouldn't object to audible alarms where there are already text notices. Rather than pings or alarms or anything like that, a unique cloak/decloak/failed cloak set of sounds would be fine.I play without audio, so that's still no excuse to do away with the text warnings.

I'm pretty well against proximity warnings though. If you can't manage your overview and know how far away things are, then you don't need to be trying to sneak within 10 km of something cloak.

I frequently decloak inside of 3 km from targets. The proximity can result in irrational behavior and trips up less prepared pilots. I don't want persistent alarms telling me I'm at risk of being decloaked while I'm scraping past wrecks to get the range I want. I know what I'm doing, and if I *do* get decloaked I'm well aware of the risk. (And no, adding a toggle to turn of such alarms is not a good idea, we've got too many toggles already)

Fck sake, cloaky faggots got really huge advantages with cloaking and crying more options for cloak ? LOL

THe problem is not the risk of decloaking or the mechanics of it, the problem is that YOU DONT KNOW when its happening. Why do I have to keep repeating myself?!

Isn't there already a decloak alarm? It's called "Oh ****...I am visible again!". As it stands this screams "I want to afk cloak and be alerted when someone catches me!". With that said, I agree. I also think alarms should be added for a whole crapload of things including new reds, neutrals and war targets in system.

Learn to read noob. This is only a change in the client/interface...not in game mechanics.

But since your too dense to see let alone capable of understanding that....yell/cry away.

THe problem is that you actually decloak long before you are visible. You are targetable long before you are visible.

"I was cloaked! How the F*** did this happen?!"

A distinctive sound you make when decloaked, that is different from regular decloaking when jumping into system,.

No afk alarm.

The only time this would be useful is if you were Afk.

Also for those of you who thinks this has anything to do with going afk whilst cloaked; your an idiot. If your safe up and cloak no one is every going to be in proximity to you. Ever. You guys are crying n00b about this topic, but it is obvious to me, that it is you who are the n00bs.

Noob ? Maybe you moron.
Who talking about game mechanics ? This is crying from an AFK cloaker, who want to hear, when his ship uncloaked, when he not at his computer. Crocodile tears.

Fewer n00bs in topic.

Oh i forgot i killed you, so many times.

But i'm really, noob yes. :P

Not need AFK alarms for noob like you

What legitimate reason do you have for this feature OTHER THAN being afk and/or having your client minimized while cloaked? Go ahead, I can wait. There hasn't been a justifiable reason to have this feature written yet.

It would stand to reason that if you were at your keyboard, you would notice your ship decloaking.

I would support this if it were a visual alert instead of an audible one.
An audible alarm is a poorly disguised buff to afk cloaking.

There's only one.... as far as I'm concerned.

Dual Boxing/Multi Boxing...

But then most could wave that off as well.

Actually that's a pretty good reason. Didn't think of that. I can admit when I'm wrong and this would be one of those times. However this is also a major buff to afk cloakers and for that I can't support this.

Lets get this "It will help afk cloakies" rubbish sorted shall we?

No one really likes AFK cloakies. Even they themselves don't enjoy it. Would an audio notification of cloak failing help them? No, practically never. I hate to have to explain why, but here we go.

If they are truly AFK, the audio wont reach them. That's a pretty obvious one. If they are in a safe spot cloaked, no one will ever get near them, so their cloak will never fail, so no help for them there.

So lets take a situation where it (on the face of things) appears as if it may aid them in their AFKness.

So.. Idiot in a cloak is sitting 50km off a station AFK, because for some reason he thought that would be a good idea. He is alt tabbed and doing something else. His alarm goes off, he hears that he has been uncloaked and so he alt tabs back to his client to save his ship. Alt tabbing takes a while, and he stumbles to find something to warp to on his overview, aligning takes a while too of course, which is too bad because by that time they had blown up his pod some time ago.

I can personally think of no instances where it would help someone who is afk.

Now, a few of you are saying "Who needs it? Its easy to tell when you get uncloaked." If you find it so easy, you have no reason to post here. I know I will just get a load of "your a n00b" comments following my next few sentences, but oh well.

Good PvPers in general have their camera zoomed out to get a good idea of what the battlefield "landscape" is like, so you cant visually see if your cloaked anyway, your ship is too small most of the time. You can watch the cloaking mod, but frankly when im counting hostiles on overview and making sure I've got it right for reporting intel (and that im not too close to anyone), I have more important areas of the screen to look at. Never mind the whole host of situations where plain forgetfulness comes into it.

It should always be perfectly clear, even without looking at the subtle green flashing of that mod, whether your cloak is still intact.

I say again. If you don't have a problem with this, then you have no reason to complain that people might like an audio notification. If your worried about afk cloakies getting benefits, then your.... misinformed (to be polite). If your screaming "Ah, just don't be a n00b and it will be fine", well what if you actually are new? It would be nice for it to be more intuitive.

This is a clunky UI issue, and that is all it is.

Good PvPers in general have their camera zoomed out to get a good idea of what the battlefield "landscape" is like, so you cant visually see if your cloaked anyway, your ship is too small most of the time.

Oh dear god. Are you stupid?

This has NOTHING TO DO WITH AFK CLOAKIES!

I feel like im banging my head against a brick wall here. I see you trolling in every cloaky related thread. If your trying to prove a point, at least try and prove it intelligently. Your just making yourself look bad.

Oh dear god. Are you stupid?

This has NOTHING TO DO WITH AFK CLOAKIES!

I feel like im banging my head against a brick wall here. I see you trolling in every cloaky related thread. If your trying to prove a point, at least try and prove it intelligently. Your just making yourself look bad.

"Dont lie. Everyone see when the ship is not in cloak. That is not truth and just an "Camera zoomed out" alibi.
Everyone see it, when looks at it onto the cloak module. Active cloak module have green flashy effect.

You can watch the cloaking mod, but frankly when im counting hostiles on overview and making sure I've got it right for reporting intel (and that im not too close to anyone), I have more important areas of the screen to look at. Never mind the whole host of situations where plain forgetfulness comes into it.

It should always be perfectly clear, even without looking at the subtle green flashing of that mod, whether your cloak is still intact.

Supported. Cloaking devices should have disadvantages. Interface ambiguity about whether or not a cloaking device is currently functioning shouldn't be amongst those disadvantages.

I agree, somewhat:

Why only for cloaking, what about a sound for the end of session timers like aggression etc. or when your hold is full of ore; for when research is complete.

It would be great to be able to add sound alerts to events - a tool to select the sound and add it to the event would be a fine addition but it should be client side, like your overview setting.

A neat object oriented tool to add sound alerts, but why get so complex?

The game is so broad, you don't want to open the floodgates cluttering the GUI. Simply have an elegant tool with conditionals that filter the events only setting off an alert when the match is found.

Sink this crap idea.
No alarm for AFK cloakers.

You obviously didn't read the thread.

If you did read the thread, then your a drooling, uneducated, borderline-iliterate idiot.

As I should probably say something more constructive than this - Read the thread. It is quite clear that this will never help Afk cloakies. People have explained it enough already, nobody wants to do it again. Try using your brain before putting fingers to keyboard.

You obviously a fcking AFK cloaker f.a.g.
Sink this thread. No alarm for AFK cloaker noob, who can't check his screen.

No alarm for AFK cloaker noob

Agreed. Stop AFK cloaker whines.

This wont help afk cloakers. If you can provide an arugment for why this might aid afk cloakers Im sure people might concede, but I dont think you can.

Shouting "Your a dog!" at a sheep all day will never make that sheep a dog. Just like saying this will help afk cloakies over and over will never make it so. Unless you have some kind of logical reason to think this, then your comment wasn't worth posting.

Everyone know that, some players why crying for a sound alarm when their ships decloaked.
Some player use cloaker alt pilots at enemy systems, while they playing with their main characters in same time.
This is why they want a loud warning sound when their ship is decloaked.

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THIS!!!

Everyone know that, some players why crying for a sound alarm when their ships decloaked.
Some player use cloaker alt pilots at enemy systems, while they playing with their main characters in same time.
This is why they want a loud warning sound when their ship is decloaked.

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