Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Seriously, this issue has existed for years.

This thread is more than a year old and nothing has changed.

I log in to find the entire region being camped by a dude with 40+ alts cloaked.

There are times when i just want to PVE, watch some spaceships blow up (NPCs) and enjoy the graphics.

I want to play a game to have fun but I find it getting harder to enjoy this game anymore.

I am getting tired of this game and i will soon leave if nothing is changing in the near future
as i find myself logging off more to play others games when such things happen.

Not balanced. People PVEing in a system have a distinct advantage from active hunters thanks to local. If you are going to nerf cloaks, then nerf local too.

Further, local violates the basic tenant of the game, IMO. You should do stuff yourself to obtain your goals--i.e. if you want an intel network it should be something players set up, not something CCP hands out on a platter.

These new probes should generally be designed so that an active player can avoid being probed as well. Active cloaking is not bad, AFK cloaking is the issue (mainly it is just boring for everyone).

The door is that way ---->

Look, if you want to carve out a slice of NS for yourself...your will need friends. You will need fleets and the effort of multiple people, both to take it and to hold it. The latter applies to AFK cloak camping as much as a fleet rolling in and shooting your stuff.

If you insist that you should always be able to PVE solo with virtually no effort, well then this is not the game for you. You are not assured of being able to log in and do a given activity solo whenever you want. That is not the premise of this game.

And I find these claims of a single guy with 40 alts camping an entire region to be laughable.

There are many post in this thread and several others about how to balance this issue.

One has to do with changing local, - very unpopular however to a varying degree is necessary to keep balance.

Create a new set of intel tools, skill based, sov based, module based - this is a time consuming effort and CCP may not have the motivation for it until they fix a lot of other stuff.

AFK is AFK - Yes to the trolls who say an AFK player never hurt anyone however the perceived threat was purported at one time as a way for the little guy to have a way to stick it to the "man" in this case bigger alliances.
With the recent changes is Sov mechanics this is no longer useful and nor is it used for large scale denial of space.
Mainly a rather small group of pilots who normally get paid isk or have a grievance setup harassment operations involving AFK cloaking.

To be honest most of your blops hunters do not stick in one system for more than a few days- they get their kills and leave.

Facts - AFK play should not affect active play by other players - POKE your CSM favorites and make it an issue!
AFK play in this regard is to say those who are cloaked in system from server uptime to server down time for weeks on end. They are rarely there and only check in to see if you are paying attention. They are only successful under "perceived threat" and only effective at that if they can maintain real threat close enough to cyno in.
1. under new sov mechs AFK cloaking is no longer an effective counter measure.
2. Balance must be maintained - it will be harder for CCP to find a balanced outcome of changes than to change afk cloaking in the first place.
3. Small changes that are skill and module based "nerfs to cloaking" can be made as to be relatively in effective to active play. however for those who are AFK would provide to be deadly.
4. with upcoming changes to fleet boosting, current changes to capitals, and citadels I think we can finally make this happen.

Well excuse me, but how can you actually warp to the cloaky when you are locked in place?

If you read the OP, this thread was not meant to change anything.




Null sec is PvP centric area. EVE is a PvP centric game. You are never allowed to 'just PvE'.

You should live in hi-sec, or just quit already.

So when you just have low risk PvP players to shoot and find they are all cloaky camping each other while playing other games, you can enjoy you PvP centric game, or not as the case will be.

Methinks you are another lazy AFK camper toe rag.

So you rat sometimes in 0.0 and don't live there and you call me stupid? Nothing to be with being left alone, my issue is solely with the AFK part, I like many others have no issue when they are ATK.

Throwing one liner insults based around your feelings is just lame, the only one doing a brain fart is you, well add Teckos to that too.