Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I am sorry to start a new thread but the ones I found were locked due to inactivity


What I propose is not a nerf on cloaking, but rather a nerf to AFK cloaking. No part of this game should be playable while gone from the keyboard for hours at a stretch- unless you are docked up.

An AFK cloaked cyno pilot in system can disrupt an entire days work for a 100 man corp, which is fine by me- but I want the other player to ACTUALLY be there.


This is what I am suggesting:

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POS Module: Cloak Disrupt Pulse Array

Uses: Fuel X

Pulse: Every 5 min - timer visible in local CHANCE X on disrupting cloak (mitigated by cloaking skill)

Requirements: Soverignity X

Limitation: 1 per system, couple of hours fuel bay max.

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Now, if you are really trying to stop AFK cloaking, and not nerf all cloaks..... (because it sure seems like you simple want to nerf all cloaks), I propose the following.

Simply remove cloakers from local. And deny that cloaker local.

- Now cloaks are really cloaked.

- Now AFK Cloaking cannot cause any fear.

- Now active cloakers have to work for more intel or to find targets. (like decloak or use probes)

- Now system residents have to pay a little more attention to whats going on around them.

- Now (if done correctly) BOTs can be caught.

Actually, the idea has never been shot down; just flogged to death, like you've started doing in this thread. Who flogs it? AFK Cloakers would be my guess.

As an often pilot of CovOps ships, I see no reason why cloaks shouldn't be capable of being disrupted under certain mechanics. I don't agree that it should be instant, 100%, easy, or even potentially available anywhere, but it should be available in some fashion aside from the Spiraling Inty method, or the Mass Drone + Can Blob method.

Those are only effective on gates when aligning or warping in anyway. Aside from that, cloaking is invulnerable.

I propose a ban to AFK docking. People can hang out in a system in perfect safety and you never know when they are going to undock and shoot something!

No I am not

Congratulations.

You just removed the problem of "AFK cloaking" and replaced it with a problem whereby you log on straight away after down time, cloak up for 8 hours totally AFK and wait till everyone is ratting/mining without knowing you're there and then you hot drop someone.

If someone is AFK cloaking just go to another system and the problem is solved.

There's no way around the other problem and would make cloaking way too powerful. Plus you could fit cloaking devices to normal ships, let some scout scout their way in for a 15 man gang then have your 100 ships decloaking and the gate and totally own them, then cloak up again.

Sometimes thinking about ideas first before blurting them out is good fun.

Can't tell if trolling or not.

Clearly, assuming you are serious, you have not been thinking about game balance if you are going to just hand out even more information on ships that supposedly are the hardest ones to find.

Let's take this from the top, shall we?

AFK Cloaking: They are not at their keyboard. To date, most weapons fired and cyno fields have been performed by players who are most definitely at their keyboard.

AFK Cloaking: This is a ship, (if we agree it is a covops cloak using variety), that has been balanced for use with a cloak. Again, no weapons fire is possible during the operation of the cloak, and many models have penalties involving time before targeting can even be attempted.

Those points established, let's go on to consider pilots who are periodically present, and currently hoping to numb system residents to their presence by having it as a constant item.

First of all, why are you paralyzed?
There is no license or guarantee that null sec residents will be able to freely PvE without threat of hostile intervention.

FIT A TANK. FORM FLEETS. WORK AS A TEAM.

I can see ships needing to be fitted for defense possibly being less than maximum yield, but this is not high security space.

If your corporation or alliance is unable or unwilling to secure your borders, then the burden of dealing with hostiles, cloaked or otherwise, falls upon you.

Its not whining- its opinion with a clear suggestion.

the opinion being that it should not be possible to have such an impact on other peoples gameplay while being afk- and that for 23h a day.

And I am specifically talking about a very limited chance to decloak someone in your own SOV so you can do something about it.

nothing new with this, everything has been discussed 895824 times already, go read older threads instead of posting in this one.

Wouldnt this nerf anyone that is not AFK cloaked?