Assembly Hall

1.) If you look at the forums page, on the top right, next to the "forums" button... there is a search tool.... I suggest you use it before reposting commonly posted ideas....

2.) If you really are too inept to deal with a single cloaker camping a single system, you should pay him to leave. Sure, it's extortion, but there are many ways to alter your playstyle and cope with a cloaker. Adapt, or pay up....

3.) If you can't cope with hostiles in your system, go back to highsec. Part of living in nullsec is dealing with dangers, and the only way to circumvent the safety provided by an omniscient local chat is to utilize cloaky camping. As pathetic as the tactic is, until local chat gets replaced by an "imperfect" intel tool, cloaky camping should NOT be nerfed.

The cloaking device is very powerful.... but it already comes with serious drawbacks:
--- You can't move (much) while cloaked, unless you are in a ship specifically designed for it.
--- It takes up a valuable highslot... It sometimes nerfs your sensor strength, and typically has a decloak delay.
--- Your actions are significantly inhibited while cloaked... (like you can't target, activate any modules, etc)
--- Most covert-cloak ships also have their combat capability hindered...

The primary complaint you brought up, was the psychological impact a cloaky camper has on you, which is what my rebuttal addressed.

Somehow, you missed my point:

Nullsec is supposed to be inherently dangerous.... Think about that for a moment...

Now what makes nullsec dangerous? It is NOT the NPCs in belts, anomalies, or plexes... it is other players.
When are you safe in your system? When there are no hostiles in the system...
What do you do when there is a hostile in your system:
-- Option 1: You get safe until they leave... because you don't want to deal with hostiles in system.
-- Option 2: You modify your play style to operate in a dangerous environment. This might include basic safety practices you should already use (aligned out so you can get away quicker, don't warp to zero, etc), it might include ratting in sub-otpimal ships (use a PvP-fit drake instead of a Chimera), it might include making yourself a hard target (rat in a group that's capable of destroying the threat).

Rather than using ANY of the options in Option 2, your whining its unfair a person stays online and represents a continual danger within your system. But the truth is, all nullsec/lowsec systems are SUPPOSED to be dangerous....

There are two reasons most nullsec/lowsec systems are NOT, in fact, dangerous:
a.) "local chat" lets you perfectly identify if there are hostiles in system or not... As such, you know at a glance how "safe" your system is.
b.) "local chat" instantly identifies a change in the system population. The speed at which it updates and informs you is so fast, that most ratting capitals don't bother to get safe until AFTER a local enters system. It is impossilbe to catch a ratter paying attention to local, unless they get scrammed by a rat at just the right/wrong time.

You probably don't see a problem with the above, but together the result in Nullsec being obnoxiously safe. Cloaky camping a system, as pathetic and loathesome as I personally find the tactic, is the ONLY tool available to put danger back into a nullsec system. Until CCP nerfs the intel system, removing afk cloaking is very bad for the game!

That is probably the worst comparison I've seen in regards to AFK cloaking whine-threads in the 8 years I've been reading them.

PS: No cloaked ship has ever killed another ship.

Posting in a nullbear thread, full of crying that he can't have 100% safety and 100% perfect intel 23/7 in the most dangerous part of space in EVE

a bloo bloo bloo

go back to highsec, baddy

How does someone AFK and cloaked, harass people?
I honestly don't see it and your claim regarding a carrier.

lol butt hurt FTW...

Im off to camp there space in with my SUPER OP CLOAK :D

Just because your entire corporation is full of ridiculously cowardly carebears who will scatter at the sight of a single other player does not mean that other player and what he's doing is overpowered. It just means you're cowards and have no right to the nullsec space you're claiming.

Man up or go to highsec.

What the wormholer said.

What you experiencing is mostly fear, and perceptions created by power projection. One way to fight a war in a video game is to convince the enemy they are going to have such a bad time trying to oppose you that they should do something else instead.

Deal with it, it's null-sec after all.

Though I'd love to see the same happen in high-sec warfare. (war target in system, everyone dock up... oh no, he's cloaking from dt to dt, panic!...)

Really. So when my rapier is cloaked can it launch fighters? Can it rep other ships? Can it transfer energy to another player's cap?

The answers are no, no and no.

Seems you just don't understand the game's mechanics. Go learn them, then you wont look so ignorant when you post.

I think these threads are just part of an elaborate bot. We all know that the only people who complain about cloakers in their system are people who run farming bots, maybe the bots have been upgraded to spew drivel on the forums demanding the removal or nerfing of cloaks.