how about no. not the distance thing anyways. the cloak is a tool used to hide. i can recall more tn one situation where i used it to hide (not fight) to great avail. and that is what it is truly meant for. making it auto decloak within ten meters of a hostile would completely destroy the cloak's purpose.

i'll give you an example of how i used it the other day. a heavy saw me. i ran, turned the corner, turned another corner, and cloaked. when he turned the initial corner, he didnt see me. and conidering the low hp i had from the damage he gav to me, i wasnt about the face him. so i stood. then about 5 other heavies turned the corner. i stil waited for them to pass by. i knew it was a squa. then one looked in my direction. i thought for sure he saw me, but he turned back into the direction he was running. as soon as they all had their backs turned, i got the heck out. (true story)

imagine if your idea was applied to cloaks and that had happened. that squad of sentinels would have eaten me alive.

also, i dont think getting shot should turn off the cloak. once you shoot them, they either stay still, making for an easy target, or the scout moves, and you can see them anyways.

the Ewar thing would be interesting, and would make scanners useful again. as long as the scout actually gets scanned, they should decloak and kick the cloaking device into its cooldown timer. flux grenades should be able to do the same thing.


Edit: By "as long as they are scanned," i mean when an active scanner scans you, and the thing on the top of the screen says "you have been scanned" to the scanned mercenary
"SCAN ATTEMPT PREVENTED," however, should not decloak a cloaked foe.