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AFK Cloaking™: Ideas, Discussion, and Proposals

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Dictateur Imperator
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#1941 - 2015-04-04 17:07:54 UTC
Alavaria Fera wrote:
Lucas Kell wrote:
Plain and simple, if cloakers were irrelevant while cloaked, they wouldn't bother AFK cloaking. There's absolutely no way you are so ignorant of EVE mechanics as you claim to be.

AFK cloakers also have to protect their playstyle.

If they just afked in eveo forums this wouldn't be a problem. We don't even have the equivalent of local here



Can you describe what it this playstile? Exactly how they make isk with this playstile, what they doing day after day ect. Skill plan ect... i want all information
Mario Putzo
#1942 - 2015-04-04 17:16:21 UTC
Dictateur Imperator wrote:
Alavaria Fera wrote:
Lucas Kell wrote:
Plain and simple, if cloakers were irrelevant while cloaked, they wouldn't bother AFK cloaking. There's absolutely no way you are so ignorant of EVE mechanics as you claim to be.

AFK cloakers also have to protect their playstyle.

If they just afked in eveo forums this wouldn't be a problem. We don't even have the equivalent of local here



Can you describe what it this playstile? Exactly how they make isk with this playstile, what they doing day after day ect. Skill plan ect... i want all information


Not making Isk, I am depriving you of yours. Call it Economic Terrorism.
Dictateur Imperator
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#1943 - 2015-04-04 17:19:45 UTC
Mario Putzo wrote:
Dictateur Imperator wrote:
Alavaria Fera wrote:
Lucas Kell wrote:
Plain and simple, if cloakers were irrelevant while cloaked, they wouldn't bother AFK cloaking. There's absolutely no way you are so ignorant of EVE mechanics as you claim to be.

AFK cloakers also have to protect their playstyle.

If they just afked in eveo forums this wouldn't be a problem. We don't even have the equivalent of local here



Can you describe what it this playstile? Exactly how they make isk with this playstile, what they doing day after day ect. Skill plan ect... i want all information


Not making Isk, I am depriving you of yours. Call it Economic Terrorism.

You don't making isk by perma cloaking ? Are you sure ? (i can proof af cloacker win isk)
Mario Putzo
#1944 - 2015-04-04 17:55:32 UTC
Dictateur Imperator wrote:
Mario Putzo wrote:
Dictateur Imperator wrote:
Alavaria Fera wrote:
Lucas Kell wrote:
Plain and simple, if cloakers were irrelevant while cloaked, they wouldn't bother AFK cloaking. There's absolutely no way you are so ignorant of EVE mechanics as you claim to be.

AFK cloakers also have to protect their playstyle.

If they just afked in eveo forums this wouldn't be a problem. We don't even have the equivalent of local here



Can you describe what it this playstile? Exactly how they make isk with this playstile, what they doing day after day ect. Skill plan ect... i want all information


Not making Isk, I am depriving you of yours. Call it Economic Terrorism.

You don't making isk by perma cloaking ? Are you sure ? (i can proof af cloacker win isk)


Well I guess i kinda do make isk. 27$/hr 10Hour work day 270 bucks. or about 10 plex a day...What do ya know, I make almost 8B a day while folks sit docked up scurred. Win Win!
Dictateur Imperator
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#1945 - 2015-04-04 18:03:41 UTC
All perma cloacer do the same as you ? Or they have other way to win isk ?
Teckos Pech
Hogyoku
Goonswarm Federation
#1946 - 2015-04-04 20:18:50 UTC
Lucas Kell wrote:
Mario Putzo wrote:
It is irrelevant to the mechanics of the game, if he is afk he can't do anything, if he isn't then he is playing the game which by your standard is fine. You can have people active in your space reporting intel they see at gates, set up gate camps, the miners make the ships. the pvp guys look to use them, taxes from PVE guys help pay the SRP for the PVP guys, the mechanics for observation and capture exist...above your answer to this was, its to hard.
But you can;t tell if he's playing or not, therefore someone who is not playing is having the same effect as someone who is active. That's why AFK cloaking exists. If it actually had no effect then it wouldn't exist.

Mario Putzo wrote:
Why would I counter you agreeing with me?
I didn't say you'd counter it. You realise this is a discussion right? Or is this purely you wanting to only disagree with people, thus if they say something you agree with, it's conversation over because you've got nothing to attack?


I thought you said the PvE pilot always moves systems so no effect. Now they have some effect. Which is it.

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Teckos Pech
Hogyoku
Goonswarm Federation
#1947 - 2015-04-04 20:20:30 UTC
Lucas Kell wrote:
Teckos Pech wrote:
Lucas Kell wrote:
It's actually quite different to be AFK in a station as we've already discussed multiple times (which you've probably once again ignored), but no, I wouldn't mind if they logged out all AFKies stations or not after a set time.
Exactly how is being AFK in station different?

Do they pose any risk? No.
Are they 100% safe? Yes.
Could they become active and undock in a ship and try and attack you? Yes.

Does and AFK Cloaker pose any risk? No.
Are they 100% safe? Yes.
Could they become active and try and attack you? Yes.

The missing part is...?
Wotsits:
Are they poisonous? No
Are they edible? Yes
Are they orange? Yes

Tangerines:
Are they poisonous? No
Are they edible? Yes
Are they orange? Yes

I guess they must be the same... Yet I hate Wotsits.
It's pretty easy to cherry pick these questions to make things appear the same, but this discussion has gone on long enough for you to know the difference between the two. If you still don't get it then you haven't been reading. The truth is though that you do understand the difference, but you are here to troll, therefore consider yourself ignored until you learn to have a grown up discussion.


Noting you have no answer other than bluster.

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Jita Akachi
Doomheim
#1948 - 2015-04-04 22:38:32 UTC
Dictateur Imperator wrote:



En français pour que tu comprennes mieux : Le harcèlement moral est certe inscrit dans le droit du travail eut tu y as plein d'article consacré depuis sa rénovation. Néanmoins il est sanctionné depuis bien plus longtemps dans d 'autres lois et de façons plus anciennes (enfaite dans les lois régissant le harcèlement TOUT court).

Je rappelle aussi que certaines personne jouent aux jeu vidéo pour se détendre. De plus les canaux public du jeu ont aussi valeur aux yeux de la loi.

Lien pour le harcellement :
http://vosdroits.service-public.fr/particuliers/F32247.xhtml


Et pour le cas plus spécifique des jeux vidéo:
http://vosdroits.service-public.fr/particuliers/F32239.xhtml

Et oui c'est bien prévus dans la lois Française.

In english : Harassment is illegal in France. And french people who said before no no just don't know the law of his own country.


There still nothing that make afk cloacking an harrassement..

"Le harcèlement est le fait de tenir des propos répétés ayant pour but ou effet une dégradation des conditions de vie de la victime. Cela se traduit par une altération de la santé physique ou mentale de la personne harcelée."

"La loi punit également les menaces de mort ou de viol, ainsi que les incitations au suicide."

Exactly what i said, and the "bonus room" it's the perfect exemple in favor of my argumentation, it was an out of game event and a real life harrassement, scam is still perfectly legit in eve online if you focus on game mechanic.

Link url is easy, understand it appear to be more difficult.

CCP Wrangler wrote:

EVE is a dark and harsh world, you're supposed to feel a bit worried and slightly angry when you log in, you're not supposed to feel like you're logging in to a happy, happy, fluffy, fluffy lala land filled with fun and adventures, that's what hello kitty online is for.


Dictateur Imperator
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#1949 - 2015-04-04 23:48:10 UTC
Jita Akachi wrote:
Dictateur Imperator wrote:



En français pour que tu comprennes mieux : Le harcèlement moral est certe inscrit dans le droit du travail eut tu y as plein d'article consacré depuis sa rénovation. Néanmoins il est sanctionné depuis bien plus longtemps dans d 'autres lois et de façons plus anciennes (enfaite dans les lois régissant le harcèlement TOUT court).

Je rappelle aussi que certaines personne jouent aux jeu vidéo pour se détendre. De plus les canaux public du jeu ont aussi valeur aux yeux de la loi.

Lien pour le harcellement :
http://vosdroits.service-public.fr/particuliers/F32247.xhtml


Et pour le cas plus spécifique des jeux vidéo:
http://vosdroits.service-public.fr/particuliers/F32239.xhtml

Et oui c'est bien prévus dans la lois Française.

In english : Harassment is illegal in France. And french people who said before no no just don't know the law of his own country.


There still nothing that make afk cloacking an harrassement..

"Le harcèlement est le fait de tenir des propos répétés ayant pour but ou effet une dégradation des conditions de vie de la victime. Cela se traduit par une altération de la santé physique ou mentale de la personne harcelée."

"La loi punit également les menaces de mort ou de viol, ainsi que les incitations au suicide."

Exactly what i said, and the "bonus room" it's the perfect exemple in favor of my argumentation, it was an out of game event and a real life harrassement, scam is still perfectly legit in eve online if you focus on game mechanic.

Link url is easy, understand it appear to be more difficult.

CCP Wrangler wrote:

EVE is a dark and harsh world, you're supposed to feel a bit worried and slightly angry when you log in, you're not supposed to feel like you're logging in to a happy, happy, fluffy, fluffy lala land filled with fun and adventures, that's what hello kitty online is for.





I agree CCP Wrangler, but if you have a counter. Actually you have no counter so the game is not "fun" for people who are harass by "perma cloack people". How many perma cloack people ask people in system to have isk? How many (and just see the forum) do hit just because they like make "cry more carebear" ? If you want i just take log of some discusion with perma cloacker and i can go i justice against they. Actually you have harassment.
It's a game mechanic if you have a counter, if no counter is not a "game mechanic" , it's free harassement.


Stop read only 2 line of an article and said " yea article said was i want". Read full an you see for exemple this :
"Le harcèlement est la répétition de propos et de comportements ayant pour but ou effet une dégradation des conditions de vie de la victime. Cela se traduit par une altération de la santé physique ou mentale de la personne harcelée."

How many people play to eve to escape real life? How many people can be hurt in they're own life because they can't do nothing vs people who perma harass they? (don't answer read forum you will see, and 1 is enough).

"Un seul propos insultant est un délit d'injure, des propos insultants répétés plusieurs fois peuvent être considérés comme du harcèlement, plus sévèrement puni."
How many no RP trash talk do you have by perma closer to make people undock ? (and yes not only the problem of perma cloack, but for other you have a counter, not for the perma cloack).

"Le harcèlement en ligne est un harcèlement s'effectuant via internet (sur un réseau social, un forum, un jeu vidéo multijoueurs...)."
Yes in video game this law work.

If you want i can continue a long time. But definitely AFK cloack need a counter to avoid to be free harassement.
In eve you can counter scaring, you can"t counter afk cloack. It's the difference.

The reality in fact : You have perma closer afraid by a nerf because they can make isk only with this, have KM only with this. They said all people are no happy with perma cloaking are care bear and they must die (in game). To do it they harass, just read the forum what is the goal of perma cloaking ? in a lot of case make moral harassement " you can"t play time who i'm here , paid me or loose your fun, you can't kill me i can kill you i'm so strong in the shadow". So actually is not a game ( define of a game in france by Larousse: "Activité d'ordre physique ou mental, non imposée, ne visant à aucune fin utilitaire, et à laquelle on s'adonne pour se divertir, en tirer un plaisir")


Now with a counter yes you can continue to make "moral harassment" but if a gam mechanic offer a counter it's not a moral harassment , but a part of a game because the hunter and the target can have fun. The hunter because he can continue to try to kill people, and the target because he can kill the hunter without wait day and day to have a few hope to trap during 30 sec in 1 day the perma closer if he moves. The twice part have fun, so cloaking become a true part of a game and no more problem with the law for this.



And to conclude: Perma cloack must be nerf for the law, and for the game design (less perma closer, more pve/mining in 0.0, meas les system with no people in 0.0, means more target to roam pvp, all player can win with a nerf of perma cloack). And people who play only with perma cloack must make the thing they said to "carebear" when they are in a system : adapt or die.




Et en Français parce que apparemment tu sais lire le français mais de travers : Un texte sa se lit en entier et tu aurai vus que le terme comportement apparait, bien que il est vrai dans la page parlant du net l accent est mis sur les propos, mais les comportement compte aussi dans le cadre global, je t'invite a lire au pire la loi brut a ce sujet. Concrètement CCP wrangler le dit lui même Eve est un monde obscur. Mais Eve est un jeu, et partant de la ils se doivent d'avoir des limites, et la concrètement la limite c'est la lois elle même.
Lucien Visteen
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#1950 - 2015-04-05 00:22:31 UTC
Dictateur Imperator wrote:
---Stuff---

I do not know anything about the french laws, so I'm not going to comment on that.

But there is a rather big difference between harrassment and a "stalling tactic".

Harrassment would be if another player is following you specifically to disrupt whatever you are doing, no matter how far you travel to get away from him.

Someone else cloaking up a ship and leaving it in space is not harrassment, that is you letting yourself be affected by it. As they say, you can go to the next system and contunie what you where doing.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

Lucas Kell
Solitude Trading
S.N.O.T.
#1951 - 2015-04-05 02:20:34 UTC
Teckos Pech wrote:
Lucas Kell wrote:
Mario Putzo wrote:
It is irrelevant to the mechanics of the game, if he is afk he can't do anything, if he isn't then he is playing the game which by your standard is fine. You can have people active in your space reporting intel they see at gates, set up gate camps, the miners make the ships. the pvp guys look to use them, taxes from PVE guys help pay the SRP for the PVP guys, the mechanics for observation and capture exist...above your answer to this was, its to hard.
But you can;t tell if he's playing or not, therefore someone who is not playing is having the same effect as someone who is active. That's why AFK cloaking exists. If it actually had no effect then it wouldn't exist.

Mario Putzo wrote:
Why would I counter you agreeing with me?
I didn't say you'd counter it. You realise this is a discussion right? Or is this purely you wanting to only disagree with people, thus if they say something you agree with, it's conversation over because you've got nothing to attack?


I thought you said the PvE pilot always moves systems so no effect. Now they have some effect. Which is it.
A PvE player moving systems is an effect... It doesn't lower the income into null, but it forces player behaviour. Roll

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Dictateur Imperator
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#1952 - 2015-04-05 08:27:32 UTC
Lucien Visteen wrote:
Dictateur Imperator wrote:
---Stuff---

I do not know anything about the french laws, so I'm not going to comment on that.

But there is a rather big difference between harrassment and a "stalling tactic".

Harrassment would be if another player is following you specifically to disrupt whatever you are doing, no matter how far you travel to get away from him.

Someone else cloaking up a ship and leaving it in space is not harrassment, that is you letting yourself be affected by it. As they say, you can go to the next system and contunie what you where doing.




In fact the difference is if you have no counter in french law is not a game (for french) because the 2 part of the game can't take fun.
Change system ? If all your system are camped ? Stupid mechanic no ? And more over the legal problem stay the same: it's harassement, and not a stalling tactic in a lot of case. And it's easy to proof.

Remove perma cloack , offer a counter and the game will be fun for all people.
Shodan Of Citadel
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#1953 - 2015-04-05 16:21:34 UTC
Isotope fueled mode -gives cloak
Run out of fuel -no cloak

System Observatory decloaks everything in system for 5 minutes -the truly afk are going to die and they deserve it because this is EVE, it's about PVP, it's about never being safe in space unless you are docked. the people at their keyboards are gonna bounce safes or do a safe logout -but their position might have been scanned down.
Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#1954 - 2015-04-05 17:47:24 UTC
Lucien Visteen wrote:
Dictateur Imperator wrote:
---Stuff---

I do not know anything about the french laws, so I'm not going to comment on that.

But there is a rather big difference between harrassment and a "stalling tactic".

Harrassment would be if another player is following you specifically to disrupt whatever you are doing, no matter how far you travel to get away from him.

Someone else cloaking up a ship and leaving it in space is not harrassment, that is you letting yourself be affected by it. As they say, you can go to the next system and contunie what you where doing.


You're answering seriously to a terrible troll.

Not that this whole thread isn't already a troll but there you have it

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Nikk Narrel
Moonlit Bonsai
#1955 - 2015-04-05 20:53:39 UTC
Why don't we simply arrange for cloaked ships to not be overwhelming to PvE ships?

Strictly for ships mounting a covops cloak:
Put in a mechanism that delays any cyno use, till at least one minute after the last use of any cloak.
(Gate cloak included, if the ship has a covops cloak mounted on it)
Tie this into cloaked ships not appearing in local while cloaked, and for one minute after dropping any cloak.
(Again, gate cloak included, if the ship has a covops cloak mounted on it)

Arrange for confidence with PvE ships in PvP encounters with covops ships.
Not terribly hard, they need simple and practical options for fitting that still permit reasonable ISK income, while having DPS & EHP that makes them consider a covops boat landing on them to be entertainment, instead of doom.

Covops boats aren't supposed to be in the same league as frontline PvP ships, in combat, but having them on the same level as PvE just makes good game sense here.

After that, noone cares if the cloaked player is AFK, as noone can be taken seriously claiming they are too afraid to undock with the cloaked player around.
Iroquoiss Pliskin
9B30FF Labs
#1956 - 2015-04-05 21:02:21 UTC
Proposed solution: Make cloaks consume some form of fuel or even Capacitor. I'm not going to use the S-word. Smile

Regards,
Lucien Visteen
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#1957 - 2015-04-05 21:30:01 UTC
Alavaria Fera wrote:
Lucien Visteen wrote:
Dictateur Imperator wrote:
---Stuff---

I do not know anything about the french laws, so I'm not going to comment on that.

But there is a rather big difference between harrassment and a "stalling tactic".

Harrassment would be if another player is following you specifically to disrupt whatever you are doing, no matter how far you travel to get away from him.

Someone else cloaking up a ship and leaving it in space is not harrassment, that is you letting yourself be affected by it. As they say, you can go to the next system and contunie what you where doing.


You're answering seriously to a terrible troll.

Not that this whole thread isn't already a troll but there you have it
If you think he is a troll, then perhaps I did. It just rubbed me the wrong way, like all those: "He is AFK so he can't hurt you!" and "Cloak should use fuel!" comments.

Equally trolly, but people respond without fail (myself included).

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#1958 - 2015-04-05 22:43:43 UTC
Lucien Visteen wrote:
Alavaria Fera wrote:
Lucien Visteen wrote:
Dictateur Imperator wrote:
---Stuff---

I do not know anything about the french laws, so I'm not going to comment on that.

But there is a rather big difference between harrassment and a "stalling tactic".

Harrassment would be if another player is following you specifically to disrupt whatever you are doing, no matter how far you travel to get away from him.

Someone else cloaking up a ship and leaving it in space is not harrassment, that is you letting yourself be affected by it. As they say, you can go to the next system and contunie what you where doing.

You're answering seriously to a terrible troll.

Not that this whole thread isn't already a troll but there you have it
If you think he is a troll, then perhaps I did. It just rubbed me the wrong way, like all those: "He is AFK so he can't hurt you!" and "Cloak should use fuel!" comments.

Equally trolly, but people respond without fail (myself included).

Those comments are less trolls but deliberate attempts to defend their afk style or attack the afk style (by giving suggests that remove it)

That one guy though is just being a troll

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Vilianis
Ghost Net
Weaponised Anarchy
#1959 - 2015-04-06 09:23:55 UTC
Rovinia wrote:
One possibility would be to make cloaking devices use fuel. Just use the mechanics of the anciliary reppers with some new sort of fuel (would as well give PI a little push).

After 2-3 hours, you have to get a refuel or your cloaking device deactivates itself. In most cases that would mean that you have to leave the system from time to time --> more traffic on stargates --> more things to shoot.


Well put !
It's not the Cloaky guy in system I have an issue with - it is the ability to influence this game while being afk for no risk. A trickle use of fuel would balance this somewhat I suppose as mentioned above...every few hours. No worse than being able to set your own timers when convenient for you.
Modern Inferno
Modern Inferno Friendship Society
#1960 - 2015-04-06 17:28:42 UTC
Ive been playing for the better part of 4 years. Ive never understood how this is an issue.

Yes, its possible to cloak up in a popular ratting system in order to attempt to keep a group from ratting. This Is the risk involved with ratting in null and low.

There's no arguement here, i dont understand how this is even being considered.

CCP, please do not rush into a cloaking change wwithout gathering enough data and listening to those that actually do this or use cloaks. Also keep in mind that cloaky changes will have a profound effect on bombers which i know you're treading lightly with.

I understand you guys know what youre doing but i just wanted to put my two cents.