EVE General Discussion

Cyno jammers don't stop covert cynos. I feel like Im repeating myself here (because I definately am), its not one afk ship thats the problem, its the threat they represent that is, and its a threat that has NO counter other than dock up and hope it goes away.

So, it's about a blob of covert ships jumping through a covops BS bridge?

As I have already mentioned about hiding cloakers from local... That turns cloaks into EZ-mode logoff traps. Logoff traps that still let you see whats on grid to boot, so you know when your prey is in range to strike.

there's these things called "cynos," maybe you've heard of them?



that's a bad idea and you should feel bad

so while afk cloakers are mostly boring and sometimes a mild annoyance to live with it would be nice if there was something you could do to hunt them.

Perhaps something like an EMP pulse module you could discharge for a period in a system that would give them a chance of showing up when you are probing or something?

It shouldn't be over powered: It should show up on d-scan or even the overview so that the cloaky would still know that they were being searched for and have chance to take evasive action - just like if you are safed up you can see probes on the d-scan and know that you need to change your strategy.

It also wouldn't preclude most cloaky activity either - the use of a special module (and you could even have it so the EMP (or whatever) module and the probes have to be on separate ships) would mean that it would only be used specifically when cloaked ships were a threat

How about having the ability to detect cloaked ships based on sig radius of the cloaked ship. Having cloaking enlarge that sig radius like with micro-warp drives. Then give the ships that are supposed to fit cloaks a bonus to sig radius. They would still have to move around but would be harder to get a drop on using probes. You could also have sig radius grow steadily as a ship is in system unless it warps which would take the ships sig back to its base +/- bonuses. Then if someone afks they're easy picking for a dedicated covops.

So have I and there are some things I'd like to remind you of. You don't have to deal with the griefing done by bored players because those bored players are much too lazy to scan most of the time. All of your sites are scanned down, I scan mine down and use my cov ops to make long bookmarks making me even safer(sometimes I even bubble the warp in). AFK cloakers in W-space are not scary because 1)there aren't many and 2)they aren't going to light a cyno for their main and all of his capital/blops buddies who are also bored.

Sure, there are a couple of wormhole griefers, but w-space and deep null are the safest places in EvE.

Between the relatively low price of PLEX and the wormhole/nullsec PvE isk opportunities many players can lock down 5 or 6 systems with these alts all month without their wallets being bothered. Thankfully many of them choose not to or much of nullsec and lowsec would be empty.

Edit: Also, it's a completely risk free on/off switch for pvp since they don't have to be in the corp they light the cyno for you have no idea who's doing it.

Suddenly, a wild K162 appears!

If they nerf afk pos sitting then you can take my afk cloaking. Until then keep an eye out

That is the crux of the matter. I've tanked Stealth Bombers galore - not a problem... in fact if he's a douche you could even kill him, but there is no defence against Superior Hot Drops!

They have initiative, they have numbers, they have all the Intel.