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People who spend 23 hours cloaked in a system hoping to hotdrop are not making very good use of their time.

But like in politics, not every problem needs new legislation. If this does need a fix, the fix is simple, make the cloaking module consume charges. Big assed charges like cap boosters.

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I can, in all honesty, say that I have no idea what the hell you just said.


Look, the "solution" (like one's actually needed) to afk cloaking is simple. Well, the "solution" is to be aware etc. However, a change they could make to eliminate the complaints about afk cloaking are simple in concept.

1. When you cloak, you disappear from local.
2. When you cloak, you also can't use local. Your cloak cuts you off in both directions. Intel gathering would need to be done actively, with probes, dscan or simply looking around.
3. To prevent cyno abuse, when you uncloak put a delay on being able to light a cyno. 15, 30, 60 seconds... something balanced.

This would give cloaks more of a true meaning, where you're actually hidden fully. It would also put the intel gathering into "manual" mode instead of simply scanning local to see who's there. It would also add to the sport for cloaked hunters... they could be more stealthy in finding and engaging targets. However, it helps the prey by at least removing the threat of an immediate super-drop on their heads.

The only place I see potential for this is null sec. But it needs balance. The balance would be that neither the people holding sov could cloak, nor others in the system. Introduce the "System wide anti-cloaking field", like the cyno jammer.

And when hee apiers neerebly you than ups sorry game mechanics. no way that needet,, hee nedet to be forced log off if not play.

and there need to be one ading if he tuches eny buton warp or wath eve he apears in local again in local and cant move 1 minet, than this can work.

Can you please use spell check or google translate?

Anyway, I'm guessing you mean bots. Botting is not a cloaking problem it's a banning problem. Handled separately.

m8 i not scared i manged to kil some off them with my pvp alt and when they trued to return to systme kiled them again. i jsut wish mechanics that i can kil them noting els. that he cant sit al the time in our sytems and getign intels and sdisturb industrialsit from working, That to easy get in sytems and wait u ntil you have tright moment and strike, that can be days months or weeks need put on them more presure that they to have some limitations.

Something to keep in mind... they're not your systems. Sure, you may have the dominant force in there. You may have sov, upgrades, etc. However, you don't own the system. At best you currently control it. If someone else comes in and decides to afk cloak, tough crap... they have as much right to be in that system as you do. Due to numbers, sov etc. you can do more... that's the benefits of having control. However, he's as entitled as anyone else to be there, even if it's cloaked, sometimes afk and sometimes gathering intel.

Just because you have control in the system don't think you're entitled to fluffy pillows and bunnies in space. You still need the balls to maintain your influence and control. If that one guy cloaked in there somewhere shakes your entire system's operations then perhaps you're not as ready to control it as you think.

Cloak self-counters: all you can do while cloaked is observe. Dropping cloak to do anything at all makes you detectable.



So your problem isn't one person afk cloaking in system, but the sudden appearance of a 60-man blops fleet. When local suddenly spikes up 60 people, it doesn't matter whether they came in via cyno or gate, you do the same thing: get to your POS and keep your head down.

There's nothing an afk cloaker can do to you that someone bouncing safe spots or simply logging off in space and coming back later can't do. It sounds to me like you just want to be able to rat and mine risk-free. That's what highsec is for.

Cloaking is fine, stop bitching.