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It really is easy to pick 1 sentence and take it completely out of context.. Mentality goes with attitude. When both are bad it makes for even worse replies - see above..

As I said, if all plex farmers used covert cloaky stabbed ships, you would have nothing to gloat about. With your attitude I would bet, you would be the 1st to complain how unfair it is.

My FW alt has netted me over 4 bil in the last couple of months (a few hours every now and then) - I now don't even bother fitting webs and scrams, 1 gun to kill the present Npc, stabs and cloak. Watch the neuts warp in, wait till they leave and collect my bounty (LP).

oh, my

I knew i liked you

So goodbye Astero for plex farmer hunting. Why not just disable countdown for ships with cloaks/WCS fitted?

Could you make the anti-cloak range the beacon radius plus 15km at least?

Cloaks can be used for setups such as cloaky tristans or for some VERY careful manoeuvres so as to use the accel gate while cloaked with a modest chance of landing >2000m from the beacon, as well as being used with recons.

As such, cloaks have an actual impact in pvp.

Now, warp core stabs provide very little combat tactic. Additionally, the militia factions may consider them pathetic for use only by cowards (lore only). So perhaps have the accel gate deny usage if you have stabs fitted, even offline, OR even in your cargo. This prevents WCS usage in a plex, including by means of mobile depot.

No more WCS and nothing of value is lost.

Warp stabs are the problem, not cloaks.

Cloaks can help to force a fight as well as to avoid one.

Warp stabs are just for avoiding them.

Well, while they're at it, why don't they add an infinite point for you to hold them down and a 100 point ECM jammer so you won't get wounded collecting your kill?

If you brave pirates are worried about stabbed farmers, fit more points and take your chances like everyone else. Oh wait, I might have to compromise my fit??? No! Make them play MY game dammit!

I suppose it comes down to a question of the Design and Purpose of faction warfare.

So let's see, removal of ability to cloak in a plex - intention, it'd appear is to stop people hiding from fights, yes? So the design intention of faction warfare is to facilitate fights with a highly profitable incentive while also concentrating people into discrete locations to make the discovery of said fights easier.

Removal of stabbed farming has more positive impact than just removing the "oh no, he got away" factor.

-Those who would otherwise to attempt to farm without even looking at their screen can no longer rely on the sound of combat flags to tell them to warp off.

-Those who watch their client and keep an eye out for attack when they do not wish to face it can still easily leave.

-Most PvP pilots are not looking to catch farmers, they're looking to catch players. There's a difference. A farmer is a fake signature, a ship which is never to be held. By fitting a second scram (and lets not forget those poor ships with only 2 mids), the PvP pilot is locked into fighting those ships who would choose to run. This does not facilitate PvP any more than having a swarm of NPCs in a site does.

-By removing stabs in sites, it becomes about actually attacking/defending a site, not just being in its vicinity, all the while providing the PvP opportunities that FW is meant to be for. Someone who wishes to farm in near perfect safety can go do that where the risk-reward is more balanced. Stabbed farming is not balanced.

In short:
- Removal of false targets because no one looking for PvP in the spirit of FW is fitting two scrams
- Increase in the risk to match the reward
- Protection of cloaked tactics
- More realistic match between design and reality: The PvP which pays, as opposed to the PvP which leaves you spending 2 hours trying to find that one person plexing who isn't full of stabs.

As a final note, at what point did a stabbed farmer compromise THEIR fit? Lock range and speed reduction is hardly painful to the person who doesn't intend to lock anything this side of christmas anyway. You goad about "brave pirates" when the stabbed tactic is nothing but an exploit of the system. It's no better than an invulnerable hauler or possed up fleet booster.

EDIT: One thing to remember is the actual design philosophy of FW here. To quote from the FW dev blog http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/28659 about this time 2 years ago

To the people talking about warp core stabbs. Wouldn't a simpler solution be to only allow fitting 1 per ship. This way a long point will not hold you but a scam will still be able to lock you down.