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Cloaked "Unidentified Structure" mystery

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Vapor Ventrillian
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#221 - 2015-01-09 02:06:03 UTC
Erts the REAVERS!!


quick someone call shepard!! Shocked

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Iyokus Patrouette
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#222 - 2015-01-09 02:16:10 UTC
This is just the latest weapon in the AFK cloakers war on Null bears. Do not be afraid. . unless you're a null bear, then post about how unfair it is on the forums.

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Abrazzar
Vardaugas Family
#223 - 2015-01-09 02:32:09 UTC
Iyokus Patrouette wrote:
This is just the latest weapon in the AFK cloakers war on Null bears. Do not be afraid. . unless you're a null bear, then post about how unfair it is on the forums.

You just wait and see yourself back in the clone bay while on a long AFK cloaking session because the Sleepers took offence at you impersonating one of their cloaked structures.

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Jenshae Chiroptera
#224 - 2015-01-09 02:34:19 UTC
Abrazzar wrote:
Iyokus Patrouette wrote:
This is just the latest weapon in the AFK cloakers war on Null bears. Do not be afraid. . unless you're a null bear, then post about how unfair it is on the forums.

You just wait and see yourself back in the clone bay while on a long AFK cloaking session because the Sleepers took offence at you impersonating one of their cloaked structures.


It was a footage from high sec.

Don't tell me talk of such wonderful possibilities. Sleepers killing off AFK cloakers? Too good to be true.

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Mario Putzo
#225 - 2015-01-09 02:47:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Mario Putzo
Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
Abrazzar wrote:
Iyokus Patrouette wrote:
This is just the latest weapon in the AFK cloakers war on Null bears. Do not be afraid. . unless you're a null bear, then post about how unfair it is on the forums.

You just wait and see yourself back in the clone bay while on a long AFK cloaking session because the Sleepers took offence at you impersonating one of their cloaked structures.


It was a footage from high sec.

Don't tell me talk of such wonderful possibilities. Sleepers killing off AFK cloakers? Too good to be true.


Probably wouldn't be able to kill people who are cloaked, but for sure folks in say Combat Recons who only have DSCAN immunity I could see that.

I think the most interesting aspect is they are now shooting back...and these little buggers are everywhere, not just in HS. I wonder if they can warp to the unscanned sites. Would be interesting if you were just AFK mining in a Gas site or something to come back dead due to rats. Or warp to POS.

I bet they progressively come stronger the longer they are out and about. More Resistance, more Damage. Like T3 NPC's. After all T3's do come from their tech and are highly adaptable to many situations.

I can see it now, Nullbear McTearyEye sitting with his carrier outside a pos running a 10/10 in his quick lock Paladin and assigned Fighters. When suddenly Woken Seeker's lands a small gang of 10 Circadian dropping 500 DPS a pop with 100K EHP OMNI Tanks, they melt McTearyEyes Carrier, and start smashing his undefended POS where they enter siege mode with a staggering 10K DPS.

Oh whos that in the Paladin Nullbear lands on grid, some Circadian switch to Brawler configurations with Battleship like DPS from a cruiser sized frame. Nullbear calls out for help...but everyone is docked in the staging system waiting on a timer fight, and Nullbear should have been there instead of losing 6B to rats.
Samsara Toldya
Academy of Contradictory Behaviour
#226 - 2015-01-09 17:37:37 UTC
Mario Putzo wrote:
Probably wouldn't be able to kill people who are cloaked, but for sure folks in say Combat Recons who only have DSCAN immunity I could see that.


You have to shoot them first. AFK-Cloakers can't shoot first because they are AFK... that's why AFK-Cloakers can't harm anyone.

But yes, if you warp away from combat those Seekers will follow you - they even follow to your safespots anywhere in system - they even follow if you covops-cloak while warping away.
But no, they won't decloak you because they land 20km away on grid but will come back to you every 60-90 seconds...
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#227 - 2015-01-09 23:29:51 UTC
So... could this be the cure for AFK cloakers?

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Maybe they are getting stronger because we are not killing them enough? What?

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Jenshae Chiroptera
#228 - 2015-01-10 00:37:27 UTC
Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:
So... could this be the cure for AFK cloakers?
Would they notice?P

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Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#229 - 2015-01-10 00:42:24 UTC
Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:
So... could this be the cure for AFK cloakers?
Would they notice?P



Well technically, since they are AFK...

( see what you did there)

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Solops Crendraven
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#230 - 2015-01-10 05:57:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Solops Crendraven
What all this about UFOs Sorry CUSs Mystery?being Violated And Invaded. Though I wouldn't Mind having one of those Jovian Motherships

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Samsara Toldya
Academy of Contradictory Behaviour
#231 - 2015-01-10 11:45:50 UTC
Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:
So... could this be the cure for AFK cloakers?


As I mentioned in the post above yours... you need to attack the Seekers, otherwise they ignore you.
I havn't found a way to attack something while I am AFK.
No, there won't be tears of AFK cloakers or autopiloting freighter pilots (yet).

Tears will still be a ™ of people complaining against AFK cloakers.
Jenshae Chiroptera
#232 - 2015-01-10 14:55:15 UTC
Solops Crendraven wrote:
What all this about UFOs Sorry CUSs Mystery?being Violated And Invaded. Though I wouldn't Mind having one of those Jovian Motherships
... because just when Titans are starting to be curtailed a bit, what we need is another over powered ship to drop on people?
If they do give us Jovian stuff I hope it is powerful but an absolute nuisance to use. "You have this mother ship but do not have the technology to make it move." Have to keep packing it up and moving it in a Titan / Carrier / Jump Freighter and then assemble it on the battle field. (So only when you are expecting the enemy to land on you soon and then you can't go anywhere as you can't extract it) Twisted

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Solops Crendraven
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#233 - 2015-01-10 21:49:49 UTC  |  Edited by: Solops Crendraven
Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
Solops Crendraven wrote:
What all this about UFOs Sorry CUSs Mystery?being Violated And Invaded. Though I wouldn't Mind having one of those Jovian Motherships
... because just when Titans are starting to be curtailed a bit, what we need is another over powered ship to drop on people?
If they do give us Jovian stuff I hope it is powerful but an absolute nuisance to use. "You have this mother ship but do not have the technology to make it move." Have to keep packing it up and moving it in a Titan / Carrier / Jump Freighter and then assemble it on the battle field. (So only when you are expecting the enemy to land on you soon and then you can't go anywhere as you can't extract it) Twisted

Exactly! You are a clever oneTwisted I wouldnt mind searching though for the spare parts the risk will be worth the Reward.However this Cloaked ''Unidentified Structure" mystery is making me very curious.

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Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#234 - 2015-01-10 22:18:43 UTC
Solops Crendraven wrote:
Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
Solops Crendraven wrote:
What all this about UFOs Sorry CUSs Mystery?being Violated And Invaded. Though I wouldn't Mind having one of those Jovian Motherships
... because just when Titans are starting to be curtailed a bit, what we need is another over powered ship to drop on people?
If they do give us Jovian stuff I hope it is powerful but an absolute nuisance to use. "You have this mother ship but do not have the technology to make it move." Have to keep packing it up and moving it in a Titan / Carrier / Jump Freighter and then assemble it on the battle field. (So only when you are expecting the enemy to land on you soon and then you can't go anywhere as you can't extract it) Twisted

Exactly! You are a clever oneTwisted I wouldnt mind searching though for the spare parts the risk will be worth the Reward.However this Cloaked ''Unidentified Structure" mystery is making me very curious.



I believe ultimately this stiff is "precursor content" to the needs of player-made stargates as later content, or some advanced means of travel. Possibly by the time it comes to fruition the present mechanics of travel and the status quo around it will be so nerfed as to be unrecognizable, but the mastery of the new means will put those who put in the effort at a greater advantage over those who do not.



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Jenshae Chiroptera
#235 - 2015-01-10 22:53:04 UTC
Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:
I believe ultimately this stiff is "precursor content" to the needs of player-made stargates as later content, or some advanced means of travel. Possibly by the time it comes to fruition the present mechanics of travel and the status quo around it will be so nerfed as to be unrecognizable, but the mastery of the new means will put those who put in the effort at a greater advantage over those who do not.
Can you imagine one way gates?
A builds gate in Q that links to Y
B who lives in Y has no link to Q so they have to either take worm holes or build a gate to stop A invading them.

C makes gates to all systems in range and keeps blowing the ones made that links to their system. They cyno home after they do this.

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Solops Crendraven
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#236 - 2015-01-11 01:53:22 UTC
Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:
Solops Crendraven wrote:
Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
Solops Crendraven wrote:
What all this about UFOs Sorry CUSs Mystery?being Violated And Invaded. Though I wouldn't Mind having one of those Jovian Motherships
... because just when Titans are starting to be curtailed a bit, what we need is another over powered ship to drop on people?
If they do give us Jovian stuff I hope it is powerful but an absolute nuisance to use. "You have this mother ship but do not have the technology to make it move." Have to keep packing it up and moving it in a Titan / Carrier / Jump Freighter and then assemble it on the battle field. (So only when you are expecting the enemy to land on you soon and then you can't go anywhere as you can't extract it) Twisted

Exactly! You are a clever oneTwisted I wouldnt mind searching though for the spare parts the risk will be worth the Reward.However this Cloaked ''Unidentified Structure" mystery is making me very curious.



I believe ultimately this stiff is "precursor content" to the needs of player-made stargates as later content, or some advanced means of travel. Possibly by the time it comes to fruition the present mechanics of travel and the status quo around it will be so nerfed as to be unrecognizable, but the mastery of the new means will put those who put in the effort at a greater advantage over those who do not.





Fair enough

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Memnon Shepard
The Occupation.
#237 - 2015-01-11 22:19:27 UTC
These little scanning sleepers and cloaked structures couldn't have come at a better time for me. The Rhea graphics updates have all but locked me out of actually playing Eve (crummy graphics card that apparently can't handle the update).

Two thumbs up to whichever group at CCP set this in motion, following this thread has led me to read more chronicles, research Eve lore, and generally kept my interest in the game alive!

I'm excited to see what, if anything, evolves from this in the future.
Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
#238 - 2015-01-12 07:50:17 UTC
Thanks all for the informative replies concerning my post on Terrans! Wasn't aware Jamyl's superweapon was a broken piece of Terran engineering built for a different purpose. Still darn scary, makes you wonder what kind of weapons the Terrans do have...

Mario Putzo wrote:
So this is happening on Sisi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVSe0MX6qOY&feature=youtu.be

What a time to be alive.


That guy sounds way to excited to get podded! Neat footage about Seekers attacking & destroying a ship & podding the player after.
Seems the story is evolving, curious where it'll all lead towards.

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epicurus ataraxia
Illusion of Solitude.
Illusion of Solitude
#239 - 2015-01-12 21:23:39 UTC  |  Edited by: epicurus ataraxia
Well the press release from DED today certainly indicates they are going to be aggressive. I did notice them today on multiple gates, which begs the question what is going to happen to gankers and wardec corps on these gates waiting for easy targets to call in their kill accounts, feeling nice and safe...........

This could become quite interesting.
And very imaginative.

Can we have a Scope twitch stream when the sleepers "clean" Uedema or the Jita undock please?

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Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
#240 - 2015-01-13 00:00:56 UTC
Don't get too excited yet. While the seekers seem to get more aggressive, down to podding, their damage is very small. On top of this, so far, their 'aggressive' mode came into play after they were attacked first.

That said, I wouldn't mind if they seek out inactive players to poke around. We know that the Seekers aren't stopped by our cloaks to scan things, as there's been a few images where they scanned a cloaked ship.

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