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Yet another idea to ⌠smooth perma-cloak down a bit ?
New module mecanic :
When you activate the Cloaking device module, just like it does now, you will cloak.
But this time, it has a cycling timer.
A long one, very long one. I was thinking about half an hour, maybe a whole hour, or even more.
When it reaches the end of its cycle, the player has 10sec, 20sec, itâs up to Eve designers to choose, to reactivate it.
In the meanwhile, the player would still be cloaked, if he clicked before the short timer, if he did not, he will uncloak.
But thatâs not all !
At cycle 0, your ship cannot be probed down with combat probes : thatâs how cloaking works, right ?
At cylce 1, your ship can be probed down with combat probes, BUT, just like Anomalies, the player trying to probe you down, would have an approximative result. Depending on his scanning skills.
At cycle 2, the signature strength of your ship would go up.
At cycle 3, up again for an amount of X%.
But even at cycle 246, you would not be able to be Directionally scanned down, or seen if youâd be on the same grid of another guy.
With this, if youâre an active cloaky sneaky thingy, your âgameplayâ would be enhance, youâd have to be carefull of combat probes, and be aware of your cycles.
The counter to it would be : âOh yeah ok great idea ! The guy could still just change system to put his signature strength back to 0â.
Yes he could, but that means heâd have to cross a gate or a WH, and therefore, going out of Cloak giving away his position, and potentially getting killed.
Hereâs my idea :for going back to 0 signature strength :
Once you uncloak, a new timer will appear : just like Jump Fatigue.
Depending on the number of cycles your module did, your signature strength will slowly go down by X% every Xseconds.
If you jump (gate/WH/Cyno), dock, or change ship in station, or space, this timer would still be there. Until it reaches 0.
What you guys think ?
Instead of adding this mecanic to the module, we could think about a Structure that would make this a thing system-wide on Cloaky ships ?
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I super rat with cloaky campers in system sometimes 
last one kept trying to get my attention by chatting up a storm I just kept at it. Problem?
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Guys please, read my thread.
Itâs an IDEA thread, not a WHINY thread.
Read more than the 2 first lines. 
Thanks.
Did you search for existing âcloaky camper threadsâ? Guessing the answer is noâŚ
My point is a show of force solves your issues instead of asking for game mechanics changed.
You can even use less expensive assets for bait such as a rattlesnake with a cyno or another ship cloaky following the bait as it rats
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also can someone explain to me how this afk cloak â â â â is still an issue after I donât know ever since the cloak ever existed.
as more I see this upcoming I wont to find out whos main making all this posts and afk cloak the â â â â out of him.
afk him till he demolishes his pc in rage
afk him till he pays me 15mil for not being afk
afk him till he legit leaves the eve universe and wont bother changing something about it.
ever went to j space?
se afk cloakâs like a preparation to level up to become better at eve and someday you be able to live in j space
Your post only contains tears. Thereâs nothing much of an idea in there.
You obviously did not read it then. 
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I lived in Jspace for a year, alone.
But thanks for the heads up nontheless.
Yes, indeed.
You can spend your entire Eve Online experience time trying to bait a cloaky camper who is probably not in front of his screen anyway.
What an experience !
But thanks for the advice.
Thanks to you now, i feel like leading a 200men fleet to charge a cloaky ship ! we could orbit the sun at different ranges hoping we could uncloaky him !
I canât wait to have this experience !
I havenât Sir.
Because mine was a suggestion to Devs.
Not a "OMG i hate cloaky campers frack you ccp :â( :â( :â ( 
"
And it was honestly.
I donât give a â â â â if some playersâ motives are to disrupt some other playersâ fun.
Thatâs mankind nature.
I did and itâs the same âideaâ thatâs been shot down for dozens of reasons every time it came up over the last decade. Your âideaâ is just âCCP remove the bad afk cloakers because I canât take care of myselfâ-whining in disguise.
No it is not.
You should read it again.
(with a dictionnary this time)
Yes, it is.
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Yea it is
I really suggest you both to read it again.
Truely.
I did read it as well, and yes it is.
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Thatâs why i said âagainâ.
Reading it âagainâ doesnât change the words, nor their meaning. Itâs still a badly disguised whine post.