Not bad.

I have a couple of things I would do differently:
-hacking should deactivate the cloak
-don't disable shields (it messes with tanking choices and balance too much)

What about a cloak and decloak sound? Should they be as load as the current ones?

Scout suit. That is ALL!

Nope. Octopus cloak only for scout suits. That'd be balanced, and fair. No other suits needs cloaking, and invisible cloaks are always OP or UP.

What would be the purpose of a heavy using a cloak other than trolling? same for for the mediums. The light suit is the only one whom wouldn't abuse it, as if they are spotted through the octopus cloak, they'll die pretty quick. A medium or heavy on the other hand will be fine unless it's a couple of people.

yes but your shield deactivating cloak would favor armour tanking instead, which in term just flips it so armour tanking is better.

let light frames have heavy weapons then.

yeah i was saying that a scout doesn't benefit much from armour plates cause they slow you down and give little improvement to scout survivabilty. A scout is still paper thin with armour plates.

sorry i am horrible at communicating sometimes.

I was saying that if your shields are completely wiped out every time you activate your cloak then it would put shield tanking at a dis advantage. So if you have a scout suit that favors shield tanking and has a lot of high slots ,ie. minmatar, then your kind of screwed over. where as a suit that favors armour tanking and has a lot of low slots does not lose tha much. And since armour tanking on a scout is some what useless then most people would stack dampners instead.

In short. shield tanking is better for scouts since there is no speed penalty, but if a cloak wipes out your shields and you were stacking extenders... your poop. So in terms the suit with more low slots won't get that much benefit from armour tanking but they can stack dampners instead. So shields would lose their a portion of hp while armour won't lose as much. And suits that favors armour can stack dampners while suits that favors shield can't stack as much dampners.

does this help?

Should only be for scouts. I have enough problems with forge heavys not rendering when I'm flying my dropship, the last thing I need is invisible ones, just waiting to materialize in my blind spot, proceeding to two/three-shot me.

Shield dropping or drain for cloaking is extremely unbalanced to minmatar and caldari.
The only cloak effecting for dropsuits should be frames. The same way profile is.

Since we are all throwing out idea how it works...

* Duration of 30/60/90
* Cooldown of 60/90/120
* Avg cpu cost, higher than avg pg cost
* Shooting, sprinting, hacking, and taking damage deactivate it. (perhaps proportional cooldown to time active)
* No change to scan profile. (Your body is still physically there so stuff bounces off you just the same)
* No loss of shields

Where are you getting that scouts *have* to shield tank? Armor tanking is a hell of a lot more beneficial to a scout atm as far as I can tell. It gives you more health than a shield module and requires less cpu. The speed loss is negligible since our minor speed increase does little to help us. Not to mention the higher pg requirements (which I agree it should need) will most likely make stealth easier to equip on a Gal scout since the cal scout will probably have less pg than the gal.

but gallente aent left in the dust. they have low slots which can hold dampners and currently the only scout that can break the scanners theshold.

minmatar may have more hp but gallente have more stealth.

bring it.... i love a friendly forum argument.