Truthfully Brisc we don’t know how they’ll be used. I might hunt for a month and not see one, they might be in every system I go in. I doubt that plexers or ratters will deploy them regularly, but some will.
Equally there are plenty of pilots out there who just hate cloaking in general. The same ones who camp gates in a corvette and broadcast to everyone in local what you’re flying when they see you cloak up or hurl abuse at you just for being cloaked. They’ll deploy these just because they can and it will make life harder for the cloaky pilot.
The issue is that this solution provides an unintended (given what CCP and CSM have been saying), risk-free passive counter to active gameplay and this is EVE so I feel comfortable in saying that at some point it will absolutely be used as such. How much, I don’t know; how effective will it be, I don’t know, but it will have an impact. That impact could be avoided completely by allowing cloaked pilots to respond before they’re decloaked which will the. only penalises afk pilots but I appreciate that they may require significant dev work. Alternatively the impact could be reduced by extending the refresh period; or ameliorated by banning from empire space (at least for me 
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I get that this is a complex problem to solve and CCP will need to make decisions based on more than one style of gameplay. It’s a thankless task and something that really needs to be fixed so I applaud them and you guys in CSM for trying. I just wanted to point out that the solution proposed does have wider implications and propose alternatives. By virtue of the fact that you’re on heat discussing it with me I know I’ve been heard (even if you don’t agree) which is all I can ask for so thank you for that.
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