Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I wouldn't call it arrogance. Covops ships are very hard to catch, it's usually blind luck that they land near something that keeps them decloaked, and even then, you need to get them before they break range and warp. Usually it takes like 30 players, interdictors, hundreds of cans and no GM showing up to delete all your cans to even hope to catch one.

Nah, catching a covops is not really hard.

Put the big bubble, or cluster of them, on the gate. Many gate camps maintain this type of coverage already.

Have an inty zip around dragging drones behind it. By the time a covops slow boats out of the bubble, the inty will have had a decent chance of snagging it.
Now, it is not guaranteed at all, obviously. And if the covops sees the bubbles and too many ships sweeping, they may decide it's a bad risk and just burn for the gate. Slowly.

I used to deal with a notorious gate camp, and saw this happen more than once.

Paranoid?

Lets see, if mining they are flying in an exhumer, too often.
This is an awful ship choice, for multiple reasons, if unsupported or outside of high sec. But, you can get away with it if you are careful, and no hostiles are already in system.
Just warp when the name appears. It's a bad ship choice for solo use simply because it is slow to align, and if they manage to catch you because of this, you deserved it.
Learn from the mistake, and re-ship smarter.

If ratting, and not in a ship fitted well enough to risk an encounter, hit warp and get out. No excuses for not being aligned here, the rats will come to you. Tractor beams hold your loot in range too. Fit to win.

Basically, too many pilots try to min-max their fittings, to optimize ISK income, and ignore threats. For them, no hostile is acceptable, since they refuse to accept any fit that compromises ISK for defense.

And that is their problem.

Paranoid plus greedy is the real issue. A paranoid pilot would fit to be so nearly immune to a threat, that they would be able to operate regardless.

I'm guessing you missed the bit in bold then? When entering system and in-between invul and cloak activation when you've got a camp of 7 ships well setup...kind of makes a difference as no matter if you have 30secs or 60sec of invul timer they gonna get ya

Yes, it could be a good change. I don't know what are the factors involved so I can't say for sure. Anyway that is not directly related to afk cloaking.

I had problems with afk cloaking in lowsec when trying to go both PvP and PvE. In both situations I ended up feeling like an idiot and frustrated because I tought the cloaked guy was online and after hours playing the game he never engaged me. Could he be at his computer, playing the game all that time? Yes, but most probably no.

Then you set a time limit and move on to the next system...adapt, improvise and overcome.

As previously mentioned, cloakies wouldn't get down to Null\Low unless they had a logistical chain (massive risk) to resupply them with fuel and back if they were based in Low or High Sec with the tiny cargoholds they have so you would have 0 risk of a cloaky hot dropping you.

You also wouldn't have the fear of that cloaky in your system AFK\Active as if you're honest you don't know if he's AFK or just pickling his target\scouting\watching traffic or even if he's a cloaky...just know there's someone there...possibly AFK...possibly not.

And then I'd start a thread to remove all that lovely High End ores and complexes and rats from Null as there's no risk and the Nullbears are getting far too rich without risk. And also to make all ships require fuel to balance out the persecution of the Cov-Ops pilot (not that it would really matter as no-one would fly Cov-Ops at this point).

I alredy said it doesn't have to be fuel, it can be cap drain.
Also, I don't play null much but, AFAIK, the nullsec game is sov. If an alliance can't access the goods in a system what is the point of owning it? Strategic advantage to take another system they can't use the goods in?
Seriously, sarcasm aside, I really don't play this sov nullsec game, but I don't see the logic here.

It's exactly that. A deadlock. A situation where the game is over because of the lack of choices for the players. That is exactly what I think is not good for EvE if it happens a lot. A stalemate should be a consequence of a series of actions and only happens eventually, not something players can easily induce.
Balance is when opposing players have the same weight of opportunities to win. In this case the cloaked player vs. the uncloaked player.
In the game of 'let's play a game' the cloaker always win, because he can go afk and play no game at all.

Reducing stalemates is the same as promoting action. Yes, that's what I want.
Yes, removing local from nullsec could be great. It would be a giant change though and that's one of the reasons I don't like it for lowsec. If you want a big change you have to start with little things. I wouldn't like it to change in lowsec also because I think it doesn't affect it as much and because there local is good the way it is for a lot of reasons.