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EPTA is busted. Can see people out to 30+ km.
snoge00f
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Just a heads up for our cloaking buddies out there. 
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Think about this:
American Football has been in open beta for 144 years. ~Kotaku
Ya they do a great job testing things... if you run it on your cloak though you cancel the effect out...
My guess they added an extra 0 onto the end of there figures. lol
This will get fixed... and I'll call it now... when people realize the Advanced cloaking rom with a EPTA up all the time has perfect cloak. lol
My sci/reman - with a cloak skill rating with boffs + traits of around 800 and 120 in Aux power - i can sit on top of any ship and not be detected.
one ship that I can see like its not even cloaked is the Adapted Tal Shiar Destroyer
Abilities should add +5km, +10km etc.
Alot easer imo.
Also, no. If anything, to spot a cloaked enemy the increments ought to be .5KM.
lol. detecting a cloaked ship outside weapons range should be mathematically impossible.
having, and using, a cloaking device is to much of a gimme in game. it would make the crybabies happier, and sorta be more balanced, that if you have a cloak you really need to have about 6 in stealth to safety use it the same way you could pre LoR.
I have a romulan with a romulan bridge crew and yesterday in Kerrat anybody who ran epta1 could see me at 20k+ no matter what. So I slotted epta1 and low and behold every klingon in visual range (25k) lit up like a beacon. Epta is broken the math is way off somewhere.
i used EPtA a lot pre LoR, and for 5 seconds every cloaked ship on the map did NOT show up like your describing now. rarely at point blank range i would see someone though. they definitely messed with something. it sounds like they are off by an entire decimal place here, like they are with borg npc unbuffed plasma torps. thats why they are harmless one minute, and 1 shot you out of nowhere the next.
It must be - today I got spotted by someone using it at 5km
as I said earlier I am running 120 aux and 800 skill level is cloak with the reman/romulan traits and boff traits - I should be invisible to matter what unless I am right on top of a sci ship and they do a sensor scan.
this is Fk'd - no more Pvp for me while this is broken - as I fly a sci torp Fleet T.varo torpboat - same set-up as my B'rel - you depend on cloak to survive.
This better not be "working as intended" or cloak has been rendered useless by a ens boff power?? that is just nuts!
+1% Stealthsight = 50 Perception. (5000 * (1 + 0.01))...
The 500,000 being added to SDR, when divided by 10,000 results in 50. It's supposed to +50 Perception. The problem is it is being added into the formula.
Perception = 5000 * (1 + (SDR/10,0000)
Perception = 5000 * (1 + (500,000/10,000)
Perception = 5000 * (1 + 50)
Perception = 5000 * 51
OOPSIE!
It should be adding 100 to SDR. 100/10,000 = 0.01 which is the +1%...
The question was whether or not it was a display error or if it was actually resulting in the 5000 * 51.whatever to result in seeing cloaked players while playing other games cause the number would be so ridiculous.
Something else to consider with the Romulan cloaks is how Singularity Charge affects them. @5 pips, I was losing ~400 Stealth Value. 1km/50 Stealth, means I was losing ~8km of Stealth @5 pips...
Edit: I haven't tested w/another player as to what happens when 2 bc ships use etpa, ie is the stealth boost broken too.
Random Quote from Kerrat
"Sumlobus@****: your mums eat Iced Targ Poo"
C&H Fed banter
And then some of these same folks will whine like no tomorrow when this is fixed, thinking that they are 'good' players because they are abusing a broken mechanic to easily find and kill cloaked ships.
"Why Cryptic? Why did you nerf EPtA? It was finally working right? Why did you nerf it?"
/cough
Yeah, lol...I can see them complaining about it like any other broken thing that is fixed...oh, my bad...nerfed.
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