Warfare & Tactics

Not here to debate if its good or bad. I am just curious if anyone has ever seen a post by CCP that says anything about this issue.

That post-article-something could be saying they think its good, or bad. It could also say they plan on changing it, or will never change it. Also any article/stuff that even mentions it in passing, showing they know it exists, even if they dont have an opinion would be good.

Oh and lastly, also would like to see anything that says anything about making new tech to detect, or enhance, the ability to afk cloak. Obviously to enhance it would mean they would need to make afk cloakers somehow findable in the first place.

Thanks in advance.

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Here's my solution:

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=45651&find=unread

I think it's unlikely CCP see afking as an invalid gameplay style. Most of us afk quite a lot, especially those of us with more than one character. Sometimes I'll be doing something on my pc (eg watching a film) while in the background a character is afk autopiloting across high sec and over on my laptop a character is cloaked on a gate doing nothing. Am I afk? I'm physically at the keyboard but on CCP's end there's no way to tell where in my home I am sitting.

All sorts of game elements support afk play including FOF missiles, Drone-based mission runners, distribution missions, mining, gas mining, manufacturing and more. In pvp sometimes the best defence is to cloak in a safe and go afk. I logged off recently when I knew someone was hunting me but I was in a safe. They managed to scan me down before the ship disappeared and I woke up in my pod. Since then if I think someone might be hunting me and I'm cloaked in a safe I'll wait for a few hours or until downtime.

I think the problem you may have is the disruption caused by reds preventing carebearing in nullsec. Is that why you're asking? If so:

1) Dangerous space. You're there because it's dangerous, that's why you get more reward.

2) Local is a rather lame method of self-defence and CCP has been promising to look into it for years. It may one day get altered.

3) Out-manouvre them. Carebear in another system that doesn't have a red in it. Put a prototype cloak on your Raven and be ready to warp to a safe. You should be able to outmanouvre an afk person.

4) Bait them out and kill them. Pod them. Convo them afterwards to taunt them and feast on their tears. No one expects Hulks with points.

D-scan is my favorite tool in w-space. Effortless intel in the form of instant local is just wrong.

Forgive me if i'm missing this: but what if afk fly cloaked in a random direction, at 300ms, even if he takes 15mins to scan you down, how will he ever decloak you? Does scanning give you a direct warp to the ships current position? Even so the cloaky would still be far away after the time it takes for you to warp to him...


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