Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I want a pony. A pink one.

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Will this suffice?

As I have been trolled many times in my forum experience, I am hesitant to reply to this, as I can not be sure if this is trolling or not, but here goes:

When there is a cloaker in system, people can never be sure when that person is online, and I have seen pilots let their guard down after a couple hours, warp to a gate or Asteroid field, and get popped.

Now, as I have never run stealth, I don't have an issue with local. However, it seems that local is a major issue for many people running stealth. As many people as those that have a problem with AFK cloakers. So there is two issues here.

Prevent AFK cloaking without ruining the cloaking mechanic and prevent local from showing cloaked ships.

Should people who are docked remain in local? You never know when people who are docked are AFK either. Can you prevent docking without ruining the docking mechanic for docked ships?

The fact is, AFK cloaking, AFK POS sitting and AFK docked in station are the same thing. If you do anything with one, you need to do the same to the others.

You admit that you have never run stealth. Id put some good ISK down on most people who create these threads haven't either. Why don't you go play in enemy territory in a bomber for 2 weeks, then come back and tell me how horribly broken cloaking is.

So does that mean if the 50 man gang tries to hide from the 10 man gang there should be no effort involved because they're more people?

But, if You don't accept my (clearly) visionary (and brilliant) idea of a docking expellant module maybe You can accept the Idea that docking up on a station, any station actually, should take about 30 seconds before your ship is actually removed from space, and in conjunction with that I want a module that works like a warp scrambler, only it prevents targeted players from docking up.

That would put an end to all boring station games AND it would put non cloaked players on equal footing of cloaked players that can (according to your idea) be scanned down.

Praise me for I am brilliant, my ideas enable everyone to force everyone else to play how everyone else wants it!

If the bombers are gathering on the target then they are too close to warp. And when they are waiting for a target (like I said before) they are scattered at positions of each pilots own discretion (not all eggs in one basket. There's always that one lemming who might accidentally decloak all his buddies) so having scattered forces reduces the impact if any one pilot is caught. This isn't a new tactic either, people already use this. If they are competent pilots they are aligned toward a celestial near target and ready to go. That's how guerrilla tactics work. That's what covert ops are. Even a non-cloaked ships evade capture so long as they are constantly moving (the exception being larger, less agile ships). It's not that difficult nor too complicated.

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Several of the post above CLEARLY state why changing something in EVE is never clear cut. You think you are getting rid of the 'problem' (if it even exists in the first place) but break others areas and create new issues. That is why I often ask people to COMPLETELY think their idea ALL the way through. It is pretty easy to see when they don't.

Cloaking is not an issue. AFK cloaking is not an issue. There is another potential problem there but I'm still waiting for someone to state it.

CCP gave me a donut holder, but no donuts

I'm about to post on my spy alt "Lennelluck" :D

Or a person with an alt, which happens all the freaking time.

Or a booster ship with a probe launcher...that never ever happens...oh wait...