Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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But...what does this "idea" do to help those who are perpetually stuck in station and refuse to undock? Will is also un ass those who are reclining in their POS bubbles?


You can take away my AFK cloaking ability, as long as I can take away your ability to stay docked for infinite amounts of time.



Also, for future reference, please post anti- AFK cloaking dribble in the appropriately named AFK CLOAKING COLLECTION THREAD. Its usually located on the front page of F&I somewhere, and doesn't usually require the hassle of pressing a search button.

From what I saw the collection thread was for ideas you liked. So then you would link this thread. Correct.

Oh, wait, you think this is how you get attention, then?

All threads like this accomplish, is annoying the rest of the playerbase who visits this forum.
That is why we started the collection thread, because things like this are like weeds.

One grows to accept they will keep reappearing, all part of the sandbox that someone will complain about someone else rather than make an effort.

Maybe they plan to kill local.

The funny thing is this most likely works the exact opposite way, if one AFK cloaking thread had survived the better of a decade itself cloaks would already be burning ***** fuel blocks.

A trend of little threads is much harder to notice for someone who only gets to peek into the forums every so often.

Whichever method is more effective, it clearly wasn't ignored.

You are right, I misread Ecoskii's post.

Still, where is the cat-and-mouse with your idea? Local lets you know the hostile is there (with absolute certainty). Your probes merely give you a general idea and ship type.

There is no cat-and-mouse. It is the same situation we currently have with a bit more information being thrown in for what could be tremendous amounts of work--i.e. your probe range is very small and would take alot of time scanning to even hope to find the guy just to get....ship type.

You want cat-and-mouse: have cloaked ships removed from local, have the scan probe range increased, and I'd suggest having the scan probes decloak the ship once your scanning ship is on grid with the cloaked ship. Now cloaking ships will have to be active all the time, yet they also are now truly stealth in that local is not reporting the with absolute certainty the instant they jump into system. Note, a pilot in a cloaked ship would show briefly in local when he drops the gate cloak and engages his on board cloak.

I also discuss a more detailed intel infrastructure and have no pilots reported in local unless they chat in local in the AFK cloaking thread.

and ignored like all the others. I guess the thing i find most depressing is that there are 138 pages in the one thread, let alone all the collected thread but within it there only appears one series (of largely off topic) DEV posts. I don't gaf how it is changed - just the current mechanism promotes AFK PCs, stops content for players and provides no useful challenge

It does not stop content for players. Players stop content for players, by being cowards.

No bravery, but you are implying fear of loss exists.

Lets keep this simple, and say that those able to function, despite this fear, could be described as brave.

It is a game, after all.

And why would you use expensive PvE ships, when plainly those are not appropriate as you have described them?
Use something cheaper.

The ships exist, you don't need an anti-hotdrop fleet unless you are going to be aggressive, and not playing is about the worst possible option to choose.

Victory and survival have no meaning, if you never lose or die.
If you are afraid to lose and die, in a game, and that stops you from playing?
You have already lost.