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How do you deal with Cloakers camping your turf?

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Isaac Collins
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#1 - 2013-07-12 15:54:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Isaac Collins
We are unable to probe him out. He just sits in a falcon and attacks after 30 minutes or hot drops us. We are un able to rat or do our own data and relic sites on our own turf. I have no idea how to handle this.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. This is really demoralizing and I'm just all out of options.


EDIT: This is not a cloak complain thread, this is me asking for legitimate help.
handbanana
State War Academy
Caldari State
#2 - 2013-07-12 15:56:14 UTC
Move, or bait him out and kill him.

This has been beaten to death, try using the search feature.

“It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.”    -Jack Handy
Xen Solarus
Furious Destruction and Salvage
#3 - 2013-07-12 15:56:45 UTC
Either attempt to bait him into a well laid trap, or bore him out. If you are constantly providing him with fun possibilities then he'll probably stay around to try his luck. Give him absolutely nothing for a few days and the bordom will likely force him to move on.

Post with your main, like a BOSS!

And no, i don't live in highsec.  As if that would make your opinion any less wrong.  
Mr Kidd
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2013-07-12 15:57:48 UTC
Ah....a poorly veiled afk cloakers thread.

The only way to combat them is to biomass yourself because all your base already belong to them.

Don't ban me, bro!
Leigh Akiga
Kuhri Innovations
#5 - 2013-07-12 15:59:41 UTC
Isaac Collins wrote:
We are unable to probe him out. He just sits in a falcon and attacks after 30 minutes or hot drops us. We are un able to rat or do our own data and relic sites on our own turf. I have no idea how to handle this.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. This is really demoralizing and I'm just all out of options.


EDIT: This is not a cloak complain thread, this is me asking for legitimate help.


If someone is afk cloaking in my system I log off and play a different game
Plastic Psycho
Necro-Economics
#6 - 2013-07-12 16:02:13 UTC
Isaac Collins wrote:
We are unable to probe him out. He just sits in a falcon and attacks after 30 minutes or hot drops us. We are un able to rat or do our own data and relic sites on our own turf. I have no idea how to handle this.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. This is really demoralizing and I'm just all out of options.


EDIT: This is not a cloak complain thread, this is me asking for legitimate help.

Bring friends. He'll either go away, or stay cloaked up, or uncloak and die.
Any way you slice it, problem solved.
Miss Relina
Ghostfly
#7 - 2013-07-12 16:06:02 UTC
I have always ignored them and continued to go about my business. Simply change your ratting ship to a pvp fit ship that can rat. He will either not attack you, or attack you and die.

Sure you loose a few isk per tick, but so what? He hasn't changed what you are doing.
Q 5
999 HOLDINGS LLC
#8 - 2013-07-12 16:10:21 UTC
Honestly the easiest way is to bore them, get everyone to log on, then go to a safe spot in a cheap rookie or frigate ship, cloak up yourselves and go afk for days.

Sure you'll lose game time but if you're there but unreachable it's frustrating them.
Jenn aSide
Worthless Carebears
The Initiative.
#9 - 2013-07-12 16:12:35 UTC
Isaac Collins wrote:
We are unable to probe him out. He just sits in a falcon and attacks after 30 minutes or hot drops us. We are un able to rat or do our own data and relic sites on our own turf. I have no idea how to handle this.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. This is really demoralizing and I'm just all out of options.


EDIT: This is not a cloak complain thread, this is me asking for legitimate help.


If you can't figure out what to do on your own in a game with dozens of defensive mod and millions of potential tactics, why do you think you can get help here?

Let me guess, your group decide to rent space from someone and got locked into an insane agreement that prevents you from leaving the system to PVE elsewhere (even non-upgrade "unclaimed" systems). If so, that was mistake #1. If you are not renters and you have SOV and thus can rat in your other systems, well that's even worse, you should have done that before posting here.
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#10 - 2013-07-12 16:15:48 UTC
Place tasty bait in location.

Cloak dictor next to him.

Cloak bombers all around bait.

When he goes for bait, bubble him.

Kill him.

If he drops cyno, BOMB BOMB BOMB.



Laugh.


This is how you fight back.




Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Riot Girl
You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack
#11 - 2013-07-12 16:18:35 UTC  |  Edited by: Riot Girl
By not having 'turf'. I just go wherever I feel like, cloakers have never bothered me.

Oh god.
Isaac Collins
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#12 - 2013-07-12 16:20:56 UTC
Thanks for all the good ideas everyone. It's really apprecited. And just incase the information helps we are a low sec cop not null. We didn't rent space we took control of it.
Jorden Ishonen
Doomheim
#13 - 2013-07-12 16:23:13 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Place tasty bait in location.

Cloak dictor next to him.

Cloak bombers all around bait.

When he goes for bait, bubble him.

Kill him.

If he drops cyno, BOMB BOMB BOMB.



Laugh.


This is how you fight back.






This.

The counter to cloaking is actually fighting back.
Sergeant Acht Scultz
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#14 - 2013-07-12 16:25:35 UTC
Jorden Ishonen wrote:
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Place tasty bait in location.

Cloak dictor next to him.

Cloak bombers all around bait.

When he goes for bait, bubble him.

Kill him.

If he drops cyno, BOMB BOMB BOMB.



Laugh.


This is how you fight back.






This.

The counter to cloaking is actually fighting back.



Would just change that dictor for a Heavy Dictor instead, some times you can see a shiny SC jump through+in case it's Blops can tank much better and still dps (larger bble too)

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#15 - 2013-07-12 16:26:12 UTC
This thread from last month offers some great advice: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=238572

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Verunae Caseti
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#16 - 2013-07-12 16:31:25 UTC
Guys. Guys, seriously. Serious question guys.

How do I play EVE?

Seriously, 1 person shuts down your entire operation? ******* blow his ass up or if you are seriously such a soppy vagina that you can't stand up to 1 cloaked ship then go somewhere else.

Jesus it's like being a parent at the playground and kids keep running up tattling on their friends for not playing nice. Just go have fun or go home and ******* go to bed.
RomeStar
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#17 - 2013-07-12 18:16:55 UTC
Recruit him to your corp.

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Daisai
Daisai Investments.
#18 - 2013-07-12 18:19:04 UTC
Leigh Akiga wrote:
Isaac Collins wrote:
We are unable to probe him out. He just sits in a falcon and attacks after 30 minutes or hot drops us. We are un able to rat or do our own data and relic sites on our own turf. I have no idea how to handle this.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. This is really demoralizing and I'm just all out of options.


EDIT: This is not a cloak complain thread, this is me asking for legitimate help.


If someone is afk cloaking in my system I log off and play a different game


And when enough people do that, its about that time that ccp does something about it.
They are sony's pet after all.
Fr00b Snap
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#19 - 2013-07-12 18:27:39 UTC
Counter cloak him, if he counter cloaks your counter cloaker then probably best course of action would be to counter cloak his counter cloaker who is counter cloaking your counter cloaker.
Marianne Pollard
Doomheim
#20 - 2013-07-12 18:33:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Marianne Pollard
Run data sites in poorly fitted officered-up Vindi.

Get hotdropped.

Die.

Ragequit.

Save $XX.XX per month

Profit.

Mocking the afflicted since 2013.
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