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Fine. But in exchange you must give me a way to enter a system and be able to hunt down the people in it before they all scurry away and hide for hours on end til I leave or am destroyed.

Instantly knowing that there is a potential threat in a system and being able is hide without risk is both a bad mechanic AND bad gameplay.

Until local is addressed, learn to deal with the problem. I hear teamwork does wonders.

Counter-proposal: Someone buy ribikoka an industrial sized box of tissues.

Cloaking is perfectly balanced as it is. AFK Cloakers are zero threat to anyone, none-afk cloakers are doing things they're supposed to do. Deal with it.

PS please stop bypassing the filters and spewing bigotry. Your last thread got locked because you kept doing that. You need a time out.

Personally I would like to see a new destroyer class when they re-balance those to include a dedicated cloak hunting ship.
With a special probe launcher and probes to be able to locate cloaked ships and an AOE weapon that would de-cloak them in say a 5km radius.

This would however not be able to work on the cloak abilities that come from gate jumping.

+1
Supported.
Need counter against AFK cloakers, 24/7 AFK cloaking unacceptable and cap usage or cap fuel usage would be nice.
Somehow must fix cloak advantages when someone not playing, just break economics.
That's same when someone dont go to work but want to get paycheck for nothing.

AFK cloaker break game economics, dont lie. Easy and possible terrorize peoples without playing, because no counter against AFK cloakers. Ta-dam is right, when he said, that's same advantage if the pilot is not playing but get advance against other players without playing.
The ratter cant go out to make isk, because that is very dangerous, when a cloaker in the system and noone know who AFK, or not when no AFK tag,no ship type detection and other thing forget your troll in this topic, you just spamming the topic with your trolling.

Please ban "TheGunslinger42" from this topic. He just ruin all forum topics with his continous trolling and personal attacks, without constructive answers.

It may be worth pointing out that a cloaky pilot in any Null Sec system is of less risk than any cloaky pilot in any inhabited Wormhole system. Why?

In the wormhole system you cant see there is a Red/Neut in system, so you don't have the information to avoid the risk - so what you do instead is have friends online to deal with it for you. These friends are called cloaked falcons, or rapiers or any other combat ship under the stars.

Want to be able to mine solo, without friends? Then go to Hi-sec, buy the new Procurer and AFK mine your life away.


AFK cloakers annoy me too, but you have to understand the way to deal with them is not to remove them from the game, it is to develop a viable defence strategy to neutralise them. This strategy is a combination of perma-bubbles, active gate camps, scouts and beefing up the toons guarding you in the belts.

Recently a Dev Blog stated that the recent changes were to allow miners to make meaningful choices before undocking. In Null Sec these choices have been around for ages.

U need to adapt to AFK cloaking because it is broke. And if something is broke it needs to eb fixed. Any advantage u can get by not being at your pc should be addressed. And i mean being 24/7 afk not on your comp and shutting whole systems sucks hard.

Yes, you see the problems and i know Balex players is experienced players like Djukas,Kreso Cakija or Babaroga too.
AFK cloakers get advantages to terrorize active players and break economics without play.
Advantages without play it's unfair against active players.

It's simple not truth.
Easy to make for the big alliances with 8k players some cloaker alts and infect enemy system with AFK cloaker alts. Where could go a NPC ratter when all their system infected with AFK cloaker alts ? God bless us when the Goons will starting this tactics and ruin all enemy system.

Impossible defend all systems in same time and sometimes the activity is too low to risk ratting. And your idea is stupid what you told, to move other place, when the ratting systems in 0.0 need permits and sometimes a renter just have few system. And why give advantages for AFK players against the active players, why the active players need to move out against AFK players ?

The game mechanic is broken, more and more systems infected by AFK cloakers, who not doing anything else (dont collect intel) just trying to make economic damage with inactive playing.