EVE General Discussion

AFK cloakers are a myth. There are two types of cloaking griefers.

1) those who have melted your face
2) those who will eventually melt your face

Here is how an AFK cloacker "attacks" you. Like it was said in a earlier post, the afk cloacker gets into a null sec system, warps to a safe, cloacks and stays there for days. Slowly, you will notice the industry and/or military index of your system fall down to zero. That is how he "attacks" you AFK.

You can bait him...but he wont come because, the AFK cloacker does not want to kill your ship. He wants to lower your system`s index...AFK! Great type of playing right?

You can continue with your farming/mining but...you never know!!! maybe the cloacker is not AFK and....maybe its your ship he wants after all!! There is no way to tell.

but, if he's not AFK, then he's not an AFK cloaker, now is he?

AFK attacking is when you warp to a target, lock it, hit orbit, start shooting then walk away from the keyboard. The more you know.

7/10 cause I like the beat while AFK.

Now I realize I was beginning to miss this thread.

There's only one way to deal with cloaky campers and that's to counter cloaky-camp. They hate it as much as you do and so after a while they will stop when their ratting and industry slows to a crawl.

The worst cloaky camp situation is when a 3rd party is hired with an NPC corp alt to cloaky camp you, but you usually have an idea who is putting them up to it anyway.

This is a stupid game mechanic since it relies on someone being logged in and only logged in, to disrupt an entire system. But cloaks are far too valuable for "other reasons", so we'll have to live with it. Of course now with the new buffed mining barges, it's trivial to deal with a cyno-equipped cloaky camper using a bait fleet....



In the unlikely event that you're not trolling, fly to a nullsec system in a rookie ship equipped with a cloak, go to a safe spot, cloak up, and go to work leaving your home computer logged in to eve. Voila - afk cloaking. The problem isn't being afk, it's not being able to tell if the other guy is afk or not.

Always interesting that it is unaffected players that troll the "AFK Camping Stealth Bombing is quite possibly the best thing CCP ever allowed in their game mechanics" argument.........

What we are not asking for..........

Doing away with stealth
doing away with risk
doing away with griefing
doing away with camping fun but at teh same time do nothing about afk ratting and mining



What we are asking for

Make the camper work for his griefing in a gaming way

oh and do something to stop afk mining and afk ratting while you're at it........

Case in point - replicator has 24+ accounts and is now camping provi region effectively shutting down miners and ratters there - to the extent that all those wonderful carebears that tough null sec players keep saying should move to null - and they did - are now packing up there hulks and going back to hisec
This isn't a poke at replicator - I admire him for his dedication (24 crazy accounts!) - he is just taking the camping mechanic to its logical conclusion.

In fact if carebears really want to see a change to this mechanic then I suggest starting up a Camping alliance and go and camp 100's of null sec systems across the game - most carebears have 2-4 accounts - get organised and train a toon in SB - and get together and go and camp the big sov blocks in null - log on when you know you can't play and stay cloaked......maybe something for another thread......

My fun suggestions for making camping an 'active pass time'

1. Stront fuel needed for cloak operation - 100 hrs worth in a frig 150 hours in a cruiser 200 in a bs

2. Slow burn scanning probe - takes an hour (or more) but will find a cloaked ship if it doesn't move

3 Slow burn overheating - cloaking device slowly overheats - cooldown takes twice as long as the overheating - maybe an hour before mods start to take damage - 4 hours for full burn out of cloak -

4. Sov anchorable structure will generate bookmarks for everyship in system after they have been in system for more than 8 hours and follow the ship even if moving or cloaked

I guess the main point is make camping an active pass time

Cheers

PS - This topic will only be 'done to death' when AFK cloaking mechanic dies - so I guess you got to live with it til then

haha they do ever see google maps ? am sure the powers to be know how many ants are in your house even as I type this :)


so its beter than local because you see more than just a name u see what they are doing and who there doing it with :)


cloaked or not lol

All hail the Invisible Pink AFK Cloaker, as she is both invisible and pink (and AFK) and yet still a threat.