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A suggestion for hunting down the covert cloaky campers who do nothing

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Noobshot Elongur
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#1 - 2015-03-03 20:41:57 UTC
Unlike some gamers who do nothing but troll and complain ( I think this is due to pressure building up in their head and they must find a way release it), I would like to offer some suggestions in a possible way to hunt these people down who do absolutely nothing but sit in a system all cloaked up for days on end. I know CCP gets complaints/tickets/etc. about this.

My idea would be to see some type of "depth charge" developed. It would be like a Warp Disruption Probe that you could launch and send out like a scanner probe but it would have something like a 5 minute life span. You would not be able to recall it but you could move it around just like a scanner probe and it would ping back if it found any active cloaks in the area. If the probes get within a certain distance, they would deactivate the cloak and put a cool down on the target so that they can't immediately re-cloak. This way you could tie this ability into your scanning/hack skills. The better the scanning/hack skills, the longer distance the probes need to be in to deactivate the cloak and the bigger the cool down.

I would love to see this ability only for destroyers. This way corporations/alliance could get together and do sub hunts like they did in World War I/II. Maybe a new Tech II destroyer for each race? For example, you have the Flycatcher. Make the new one called the Bugzapper. Let's face it. Not enough destroyers. They need some lovin'. ;->

Just my two cents and a crazy idea.
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#2 - 2015-03-03 20:44:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Herzog Wolfhammer
In before trolls making the usual arguments.

Why not everbody just pick a number and spare the typing:

1. AFK Cloakers are not harming you because they are AFK
2. Posting in another nerf AFK cloaking thread
3. Get friends
4. How do you know they are AFK?
5. Grrr goons
6. Grrr highsec
7. Grrrr ISDs
8. IBTL
9 Profit?

Bring back DEEEEP Space!

Kiandoshia
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2015-03-03 20:45:47 UTC
They just made silly OP T3 destroyers.
Noobshot Elongur
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#4 - 2015-03-03 20:46:58 UTC
In with the reply before the trolls who troll trolls toll.......
Marsha Mallow
#5 - 2015-03-03 20:48:49 UTC
Try hereBlink

Ripard Teg > For the morons in the room:

Sweets > U can dd my face any day

Paranoid Loyd
#6 - 2015-03-03 20:49:22 UTC
Roll

"There is only one authority in this game, and that my friend is violence. The supreme authority upon which all other authority is derived." ISD Max Trix

Fix the Prospect!

Dradis Aulmais
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2015-03-03 20:50:06 UTC
I will start with

1,2,4,8

And say smart bombs while grid flying around station, planet, moon, etc

Dradis Aulmais, Federal Attorney Number 54896

Free The Scope Three

Noobshot Elongur
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#8 - 2015-03-03 20:51:26 UTC
Squeaky wheel gets the grease.
Paranoid Loyd
#9 - 2015-03-03 20:52:41 UTC
Noobshot Elongur wrote:
Squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Unless the wheel is supposed to squeak.

"There is only one authority in this game, and that my friend is violence. The supreme authority upon which all other authority is derived." ISD Max Trix

Fix the Prospect!

Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#10 - 2015-03-03 21:07:12 UTC
Posting in a 'baby bunny + baby duck somehow together become the most evil vicious creature known to mankind' thread# 422439587.2




Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?

Abrazzar
Vardaugas Family
#11 - 2015-03-03 21:11:13 UTC
How can you hope to find covert cloaky campers when you can't even find the appropriate place to post this stuff?
Bloody Slave
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#12 - 2015-03-03 21:33:47 UTC
Abrazzar wrote:
How can you hope to find covert cloaky campers when you can't even find the appropriate place to post this stuff?


LoL, man, you are always making ppl think.

For me, you are the New Eden Plato.

Blink

If your balls are hurt and bleeding don't sit in a pool full of piranhas (note to myself: don't complain in GD)

Pok Nibin
Doomheim
#13 - 2015-03-03 22:00:23 UTC
If somebody wants to go to the trouble of skilling up cloaking and the ability to pilot a cloaky ship, launch that ship and cloak it, then just sit in a system drooling at their keyboards, I don't see how anybody on God's Green Earth has the right to say they can't, and shouldn't. If you are too sensitive for that, and it hurts your feelings, makes you angry or causes you to be nervous, maybe you're engaged in the wrong activity and should play a game that's easier on your nerves.

Shocked

The right to free speech doesn't automatically carry with it the right to be taken seriously.

Zura Namee
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2015-03-03 22:07:36 UTC
Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:
In before trolls making the usual arguments.

Why not everbody just pick a number and spare the typing:

1. AFK Cloakers are not harming you because they are AFK
2. Posting in another nerf AFK cloaking thread
3. Get friends
4. How do you know they are AFK?
5. Grrr goons
6. Grrr highsec
7. Grrrr ISDs
8. IBTL
9 Profit?


1,2,4,5,5,5,5,5

You forgot death to supers, so I'm gonna add a 10 in there too

9
ISD Dorrim Barstorlode
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#15 - 2015-03-03 22:16:02 UTC
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