Ok your idea has been used a thousand times. So once again... no.

Try this.

Your cloak is something designed to bend light around you so you look like you are invisible. Light is energy. Radio waves are also energy.

SO WHY ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH WOULD YOU KEEP YOUR F***ING COMMS RADIO ON WHEN YOU'RE CLOAKED?!?!? In the military we call it noise and light discipline.

Removing local would be a bad idea. But you know how when you jump into a new system you are already temp cloaked? Well when you move or sit there too long or turn on your own cloak, you are visible. When you are cloaked you should disappear from local. When you are uncloaked you show back up on local. Even for that brief second while transitioning between temp cloak and your cloak.

This presents another problem though. Now you have a whole bunch of people cloaked up in local and noone is on local. You have no idea anyone is there. Hmm...

I see there is a lot of emotion against cloakers circling around.

On the idea to simply remove the cloaker from local. While this appears to be a solution against cloakers, the one with the cyno in the Haven (or similar) waiting afk for a ship won't be affected. Basically any cloaker aiming for destruction/interruption instead of intel doesn't really care about local. And in worst case even an intel cloaker could simply decloak, screenshot, recloak every minute and he has all the intel he wants. I don't think this would solve any issue except for making intel cloaking slightly more annoying.

I don't think...

Without a doubt afk cloakers can be the worse type of player in the game. And yes, many people are consantly trown off by a 24/7 cloaker that does nothing more than stay cloaked within your system for 3 weeks.

1. I believe that something has to be done to remove theior ability to be a non-active pilot. It is simply idiotic to sit in someone elses sytem for a week without even moving your ship. I see the point of reducing the effectiveness of military and industrial levels of a system.
2. Sitting in a system for a week (or longer) is too much. That's what lowsec is for. Camp a gate and go for the freighters carrying the big goods. Or venturing into nullsec for a rorq kill. Sitting in one place has to stop unless you are active.
3. I see nothing wrong at all with making a pilot more active. A module or even an I-HUB upgrade would be the best solution.

I like this idea. Nerf or not. If you're not active you should at least make the pilot become uncloaked for 5-10 minutes for every hour that they use cloak. Something to insure that a pilot is actually using the account and not wasting others time that would otherwise be used in a much more constructive manner. You still have the ability to pirate all you want but 24/7, 7 days a week is a bit too much.

Just trowing my idea out, thats all.

I think we should leave covops cloaks as they are but maybe change the other cloaks somewhat.
For example, reduce the penalties of fitting them but add some way of finding them. As people have pointed out so many times ships with covops cloaks are more or less pre-nerfed. But what annoys me is that any other ship can use a prototype cloak to hide. And this ahs nothing to do with local but rather an annoying incident with a guy hiding an orca in my WH system and me not being able to do anything about it unless I would sit with combat probes around the system 23/7.

Maybe add the suggested probes that can find cloaked ships, but not ships with cov ops cloaks, and make it really hard or impossible to find anything small so that less threatening ships can still hide, but BCs, BSs and capitals wont be able to simply warp to a safe and cloak.