EVE General Discussion

Dealing with willful ignorance is very tiring and honestly I have no patience for it.

nerf friendmaking

you see Internet Lawyer Steve of noted player corporation Imperial Academy, nullsec is for large empires, not friendless nobodies out for goodfights and irrelevance

Subscribes to massively online multilayer game. Plays solo online single player game.

No. Just pointing out the idiocy of complaining about other peoples diplomatic ability when you yourself most likely impose a self determined limit on your blue list. Mad props for goin small scale and doing what you want. But why should anyone else be forced to follow your self imposed limit? Unless it isn't actually self imposed and you're just really really bad at making friends in one of the most friend starved game genre's of all time.

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@OP: I'm not sure afk cloaking or local is in need of a change. Although I like the idea on the not appearing in local until you've uncloaked. It atleast gives the hunter a fight chance to get to something before all the targets get away.

I'm not a big fan of the cloaking requiring fuel though. I had heard of another proposed change a while back about cloaked ships becoming increasingly more probe-able with increasing periods of inactivity. Even if it's easily circumvented at least it forces someone to be at their keyboard.

Other than that I really like your ideas on active contribution and how activity affects the quality and defensibility of sov.

Stil have not heard an explanation as to how one can prove someone is AFK anything.

Great ideas. My favorite being how local minerals/moon goo are used to produce their local faction's items. It makes sense both in a "story" view point as well as an economic one. It will definitely make the tech problem far better, and make other regions valuable enough that people may want to actually hold on to them.

For the local/cloaking issues, the people saying, "DEAL WITH IT, IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT DON'T PLAY"...well that's a terrible attitude to have. Things can always be improved. I like the idea of not showing in local until you uncloak. I think that will also play a role in battles as well, not just hunting for ratters.

I don't like the timer/fuel idea for stealth. However, I don't like stealth that much either. My biggest problem with stealth is that you are invulnerable; there is literally nothing, anywhere, anyone, anyhow can do to find you. As someone who usually has 2-3 cloakies in hostile ratting systems taking advantage of current mechanics, it's really dumb. Any mechanic that lets you influence your enemy (whether they be ratting, missioning, mining, small gang or fleet pvp) while you aren't actively playing is enormously stupid; end of story.

I'm a huge fan of the "increasing probe-ability" of cloaked ships. I think having to warp >1au or your signature increases over time not only makes it so you have to be active at your keyboard, but is also interesting while acting as a scout, making it so you can't just sit 400km off and watch the enemy for hours. Perhaps special types of probes are required to find a person with an active cloak, forcing you to specialize your own ships. Make it a cat and mouse game between covops pilots, which as of now is fairly dull work.

Cloaking is just an invulnerability button...and I've never seen a game where those were considered good.


Also, FA shot first.

Well, with the ideas I've posted, maybe null sec will be attractive enough so what ever alliance you're from can recruit and get enough to blob us back =D

zagdul you a ****** ofc you would want a nerf to cloaking in your systems

Because it only stops cloaking in HIS systems, amirite? And nullsec groups *never* cloak in their enemies systems.