You mean your ship was DESTROYED?!?! This is unthinkable!
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My point is, a counter to cloaking already exists.
Perhaps I misinterpreted your use of āridiculous.ā
have you undocked and baited the cloakers? theres the counter you need
For years people moaned āafk miners do something!! Think of the children!ā AFK cloaky campers -cricket chirps-. At least afk miners can be ganked, but no counter to afk cloaky.
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Afk cloakies donāt cause materials to enter the game changing the economy do they? Get real. Sitting cloaked is more similar to being docked up. They are not botting, generating isk, generating minerals etc.
They generate perverse deep and infinite hatred. Well, at least in my case. 
In an MMO it is called content - and it is something that the blue doughnut needs a lot more of.
If enough Remote Sensor Boosters and Sensor Boosters are active on the tackle and if the pilots ping is good enough. It is possible to lock a target before it can cloak. While the OP might be referring to some kind of Electronic Warfare module. While this would be interesting it is unnecessary.
They both have adverse affect upon game, only difference is active counter vs no counter. I know Eve is not about realism, but almost all aspects of life has a counter.
They generate tears and this threads though
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No they donāt.
AFK mining produces vast amounts of resources, distorting the economy by wrecking the supply vs. demand balance and providing considerable wealth to the people doing it.
AFK cloaking has a name in local, nothing more. Its game effect is exactly equivalent to a player that stays logged in and docked 23/7. And the only people who care about it are RMT botters and renter trash that canāt defend the space they claim.
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Wrong, you have a passive counter already and that is local. Free intel which there is no counter to. The fact that you can see them in local nullifies their stealth ability and allows you to do many things to either run away or kill them.
The cloakies must āAFKā because local is such a powerful tool that they must waste that much time so partially nullify it. Think about itā¦ you still know they are there no matter how long they stay. You can leave/log off and come back and guess what? Local still reports if they are there or if they left instantly. You can still set them up. They have absolutely no ability to truly be stealthy.
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No, it IS the counter to endles min/maxed-farming in complete safety.
You can still farm your little nullbear heart out, you just have do adapt and downscale to bot present such a jucy target vor minimize loss. This adaptation in the other hand is the counter to the afk cloaker.
You are just feel you are entitled to your max yield setup in perfect safety. Thatās not how it works.
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Did you see the related kill? Before they were in a pod, they were in a cloaked Stiletto.
Coordinate your bait op out-of-game with trusted people. If you know who you can trust. If you donāt, fix that first.
Exactly the point i brought up.
Iv addressed this by suggesting that covert-ops ships should gain a probe launcher that has probes that cannot be scanned, d-scaned etc, that can detect and decloak ships.
There are many options to this, scan systems, fuel costs for cloaking and so forth, and on top of that many many people over the years have complained about this. ccp does not care.
ccp does not care because there is no problem with the current cloaking mechanics.
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Truth!
For many many years it was claimed that station camping was not a problem with mechanics. I guess after they realized how many people bleed because of the issue they fixed it (with war-eligibility).
Now we come to cloaking, with just as much if not more complaints. Do you really think there is no issue?
I am very cautious about cloaking in my game. Do you know why? Cloaking is over powered, because you can choose when to engage and when not to. In any game this is not the issue, the power of cloaking ceases to exist, and with it any use of the option, as a viable option.
We can take eve for example on this. Bac in 2007 or 8 for 2 weeks cloaking was energy intensive. after a minute or two, you decloaked and could not recloakuntil you waited for energy to regen.
Do you know what happend to cloak value then? They dropped, HARD. Like, 100k isk hard.
This is a great example of this.
I think a charge system like nanite paste that can be loaded and reloaded during operation will probably be the best way to fix cloaking, but i favor giving covert-ops a buff by enabling them to detect cloaking via some sort of probing mechanic specific to the ship class (just because if eel they need something equiv to interceptors ānulliā).
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