Player Features and Ideas Discussion

"I want to develop a MMOG. I know, I will introduce things on a broad scale that makes it look like no one is playing the game"

Sounds like a plan

Your statement is false. No one is immune to him.

He can still act in a variety of tactical roles. He is still projecting threat and provoking a defensive response to the detriment of the locals. He can still set up his ambush and attack at any time, or act as a bridge for his friends to attack.

If I could get on grid and prepare to whack you the instant you did anything but sit there, then we would be talking about two way immunity. That's not what's is happening though. Cloaking curtails your options, but completelly makes you immune to retaliation.

Well, that would follow from having the attention span of a guppy.

Local makes Eve seem alive
Developers do not want Eve to seem dead
Therefore, local stays.

Succinct* enough for you to grasp in whatever seconds are available?

* Characterized by clear, precise expression in few words; concise and terse (websters)

They are immune to him whilst cloaked. Which was fine for you when you thought it only applied one way. But it quite obviously doesn't.

He is still projecting a threat, you say? Well whilst he is cloaked and AFK, which mechanic is he using to project this threat you talk of? It sounds like something we should include in any changes tbh.

You also seemed to have missed the name of the module, you have issues with. It kinda points to why it can do, what it does.
Covert Op Cloak. It's roles is sneaking up on peeps. Yea I know, weird right. The Elephant in the room.

Oh and what's stopping you from trying to whack him when he does decloak? Was it the not refitting, because of your ISK p/h?

Your statement is false. No one is immune to him.

Sorry Mike, but in the freighter thread it was a way to reduce risk, or more accurately shift it over to the bumping ship....after you already skipped over several chances to "respond". You wanted one last 'get out jail free' card. It clearly reduces the risk by upping the risk of the bumper who is using an expensive faction ship.

Here you want to shift risk from yourself over to the cloaked camper. You want to make it so you can scan them down and increasing their risk while decreasing yours.

Now, to convince me otherwise you are going to have to provide a very good explanation. To date you have failed because you simply say, "No, I don't." That is just a flat assertion with no argument or logic behind it.

Here is a question, if cloaked ships could be scanned would that increase their risk given the current behavior of players using cloaks? That is, don't give me this bullshit that they'll adapt...adaption is a f*cking response to a change in risk! If you increase my risk by changing the mechanics my behavior will change to mitigate the risk increase. Or to put it differently again, you are are foolish enough to use the "they'll adap" argument you are indirectly admitting you want their risk to increase.

Let me repeat the question for you:

Assuming cloak using players do NOT change their behavior and scanning cloaked ships becomes possible, will the risk for players using cloaks increase, decrease or stay the same? Please explain.

Here is my answer, risk will increase. It will increase because being stationary while being scanned is a good way to be scanned down then killed.

Your turn.