Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hey all,
There have been many possible solutions put forward as to the solution for AFK Cloaking, however I have an idea that may just be the solution.

Now, the current state of cloaking devices is that they completely hide your signature from all scanners. This seems a little overpowered as far as I (and many other members of the EVE community) am concerned, so how about we change it slightly.

My concept is that while cloaked you are hidden from normal sensors and core scanner probes, however, the emissions from your ship are still probe-able with combat scanner probes.

In order to balance this I also thought of a new module that will temporarily hide your emissions from all scanners, an Internal Emissions Sink, similar to the I.E.S. fitted to the Normandy from the Mass Effect series. This module would completely mask your signature for 30 minutes(that is a rough number and can be changed later), after that time it would force your ship to uncloak so that the I.E.S. could be purged. For the time required for the sink to be purged (I've still not figured out how long that would take, but if that were animated it would be quite cool) you would be completely visible and easily probed down.

Obviously this is a very rough idea and is something that will definitely need some more thought. As usual, don't troll and constructive comments only. Trolls will be reported.

If a Dev could take a look at this concept it would definitely be appreciated.

JD

AFK Cloaking has been a problem for a long time, this would be a simple solution to it.

Congratulations, you broke Wormholes.... have a cookie.

Blunt and to the point, but I'll humor the OP. There is a fallacy built into your assumption that AFK Cloakers need to be stopped, or countered. The reality of the situation is that there is no 'problem' with afk cloaking. Lets take a look at a few case examples;



Not much fun for me, not much fun for you, but a part of the game that is a natural progression due to the fact that local chat gives 100% guarrantied intel.



The truth of the matter is that local chat gives me the attacker a lot more intel and information than the defender. It is your base, it is your home, you have the advantage of not having to relocate pilots to fight, running defensive gate camps, setting up safety nets and almost instant reshipping; not to mention the capability for a good picket to inform you of incoming numbers and ship types allowing you to form up with the exact counter while the enemy remains clueless.

Local chat is a crutch that the majority of the nullsec community uses and begs ccp to keep in the game. CCP I dare you to take off our training wheels and see how we fly. I want you do make Nullsec hard, let us HTFU and see that we can succeed beyond what we don't even know we are capable of.

You want to see large alliances stop 'owning' so much space and not doing anything with it, take away local. People will have to fly smarter and better to keep what they have. You want to see small alliances with good pilots thrive; take away local. You want to see truely epic fights where movement and strategy are just as important as numbers, take away local.

CCP it is time that WE HTFU! TAKE AWAY LOCAL!!!

OMG Zim,,,, lol you're insane.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.

Zims insanity source

reading the fourms and responding is not stalkiing,, omg get over yourself.

We're already collapsing under the weight of our fat and neckbeards.

AFK cloaking is a perfectly acceptable tactic for griefing.

I was apposed to this initially but now I see the value in it.
Wihtout it, it would make targets of interest difficult to catch.

My suggestion to you would be to stop Carebearing so much and start greifing them back. Go find where their carebears are missioning/ratting and do the same to them.

Or, bait them into going for one of you so you can kill the incoming enemy force, that will make them think twice.

Nothing in Eve is handed to you on a plate. You have to fight for what you have.
Put your missioning/ratting boat down and try and PVP your way out of the situation.

These people aren't trolling, they are just sick of the same issue coming up again from PVE'ers.
In order to create the safety you desire you'll have to show some teeth, end of.

Good luck.

Actuaully thought I was giving you some sound advice..oh well ..deaf ears.