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Cipher Jones
The Thomas Edwards Taco Tuesday All Stars
#41 - 2011-12-16 20:50:52 UTC
Twizzle Puff wrote:
Blazde wrote:
Disable all chat channels, evemail, market and other information services if you're Docked
or Cloaked [Edit: For longer than 30 minutes without doing something more useful or something like that, cloaks work okay it's idling that's rotting the game]

I'm sure it's been suggested before but anyway... stop people who don't actually play FiS being a distraction for those that do


Not really meant as a solution, just a talking point. Find a way to make people play the game, because not enough are right now


Another pilot I know likes to actually sit there, in space, watching local, for hours on end. A lot of pilots assume he's asleep at the stick. I suppose that's why people get so pissed off when he pops his cloak and starts pounding them with torps in their supposedly hidden plexes.

He says it's like fishing. Grab a nice book and keep an eye on the tip. Grab the poll when there's a nibble. Sink the hook when there's a bite.

IMHO, it's a perfectly valid form of flying if that's what he's into.

Of course, those that want to be in the plexes or mine the systems he's sitting in tend to dislike him for it and they periodically try to get the whole universe to change just for them. Honestly? That's their problem.


Articulated quite well. +1

internet spaceships

are serious business sir.

and don't forget it
Thredd Necro
Doomheim
#42 - 2011-12-16 20:51:11 UTC
Feligast wrote:
Andski wrote:
only scrubs are bothered by afk cloakers

don't be a scrub


Nono, Andski, he made that point clear. It's AFK DOCKERS he has a problem with.


Lol that's easy...CCP can time out their connection and boot them...otherwise who cares?

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which. - Douglas Adams
Avid Bumhumper
Beekeepers Anonymous
#43 - 2011-12-16 20:55:59 UTC
Solstice Project wrote:
Thomas Abernathy wrote:
mnybag1 wrote:
Just would like point out that physics dictates that if you are invisible, then you are also blind. Fun fact.


Please quote the relevant physics text that states that. Lol



He's talking about a cloak where all photons go around whatever wants to be hidden,
which means that the thing that's hidden can not see what's going on outside,
because all the photons are moving around it.

That said, we don't know what'll come in the future.
Hopefully, he doesn't believe that current physics is the be-all-know-all-end-all.



Well, he's assuming that that is the only way a cloak can function. Even with current science, we can create a cloak that works to some extent.
Using optical fibers you can bend light around an object, effectivly making it disappear, the person inside the cloak taps the optical fibers for a view. Obviously it does not work well, nor do we have the computing power yet to update the display under quickly changing conditons, but it has already been shown to be feasible.
Fun facts....do not == reality. Cool

My Tinfoil hat has been sugically implanted, so no,it is not for sale.....
Feligast
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#44 - 2011-12-16 20:57:25 UTC
Thredd Necro wrote:
Feligast wrote:
Andski wrote:
only scrubs are bothered by afk cloakers

don't be a scrub


Nono, Andski, he made that point clear. It's AFK DOCKERS he has a problem with.


Lol that's easy...CCP can time out their connection and boot them...otherwise who cares?


Why should they?
Jonathan Ferguson
JC Ferguson and Son Ltd
Ferguson Alliance
#45 - 2011-12-16 21:03:26 UTC
Finish the to-do list that they started on with Crucible.
Thredd Necro
Doomheim
#46 - 2011-12-16 21:08:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Thredd Necro
Feligast wrote:
Thredd Necro wrote:
Feligast wrote:
Andski wrote:
only scrubs are bothered by afk cloakers

don't be a scrub


Nono, Andski, he made that point clear. It's AFK DOCKERS he has a problem with.


Lol that's easy...CCP can time out their connection and boot them...otherwise who cares?


Why should they?


They shouldn't imo. I think the OP is silly and I don't think it's a good idea.Blink I am just suggesting that if the OP's idea is to just cut people off who are AFK then there are already mechanisms built in to do that. CCP can cut people off who show activity below a set network traffic threshold after a set period of time. ISP 101.Smile

If CCP isn't going to do that then this thread is a waste of time for all concerned.Bear

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which. - Douglas Adams
Blazde
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#47 - 2011-12-16 21:26:54 UTC
Twizzle Puff wrote:
Another pilot I know likes to actually sit there, in space, watching local, for hours on end. A lot of pilots assume he's asleep at the stick. I suppose that's why people get so pissed off when he pops his cloak and starts pounding them with torps in their supposedly hidden plexes.

He says it's like fishing. Grab a nice book and keep an eye on the tip. Grab the poll when there's a nibble. Sink the hook when there's a bite

See that's fine, that's playing the game. More people should do that. I only mentioned cloaking because if docking was nerfed everyone would sit in space in cloakies still not playing the game


There is no solution of course. I was just mad at the end of a 6 hour roam accross 3 regions that resulted in zero engagements Straight

Can remember a time when you would jump into a station system with 6 in local, 2 would be in the belts, 2 would be camping a gate and a 5th guy would undock to see what you had. And if you were in say a ceptor, he'd redock and grab his ceptor too then lure you to a planet or gate for a duel. Fun times. Now it's invariably 6 afk dockers

Play the game more people! Or log off, use MSN to chat with your friends and save yourself $15/month
Astrid Stjerna
Sebiestor Tribe
#48 - 2011-12-21 23:54:19 UTC
Thredd Necro wrote:
Cipher Jones wrote:
Quote:


"Known for its never-ending hunger and its mind boggling stupidity, the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal is such a stupid animal that it thinks if you can't see it, it can't see you." - Douglas Adams


You beat me to it.

That was actually part of the INFOCOM game.

As far as cloaking goes, your assumptions are way off. I am playing FiS when I cloak for hours at a time waiting for a kill.


Yes it was...I still have my button and towel from that game.Big smile


You still have the Hitchhiker feelies?!?

Keep them. They're a piece of gaming history.

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Tarryn Nightstorm
Hellstar Towing and Recovery
#49 - 2011-12-27 00:22:33 UTC
ITT:

Butt-hurt ex-nullbear stealth-whines about cloakers.

0/10, lacks originality or subtlety, next!

Star Wars: the Old Republic may not be EVE. But I'll take the sound of dual blaster-pistols over "NURVV CLAOKING NAOW!!!11oneone!!" any day of the week.
Jaroslav Unwanted
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#50 - 2011-12-27 00:25:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Jaroslav Unwanted
Agallis Zinthros wrote:
I wouldn't mind losing access to local while cloaked if it meant local lost access to me Twisted.

After all, it's only fair.


you missed on cloacked and in-active .. so it would not matter.
You cloack go to bed you would lose local of others and others would lose you, then you come move and you reappear.. Big smile

But it beats the "only" purpose of cloacked ships .. resource denial for renters .. Cool
Laken Starr
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#51 - 2011-12-27 02:58:55 UTC
mnybag1 wrote:
Just would like point out that physics dictates that if you are invisible, then you are also blind. Fun fact.


Two-way mirrors called. They just wanted you to know that they're laughing at you right now, you just can't see it. Blink
Jaroslav Unwanted
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#52 - 2011-12-27 03:17:53 UTC
Laken Starr wrote:
mnybag1 wrote:
Just would like point out that physics dictates that if you are invisible, then you are also blind. Fun fact.


Two-way mirrors called. They just wanted you to know that they're laughing at you right now, you just can't see it. Blink


well its other way around

If you are blind, others are invisible Big smile
Alexa Coates
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#53 - 2011-12-27 04:46:23 UTC
Oh my god i'm seriously tired of idiots trying to dicktate (purposeful misspelling) how other players play a sand box game that THEY pay a subscription for, to play how they want!

That's a Templar, an Amarr fighter used by carriers.
Astrid Stjerna
Sebiestor Tribe
#54 - 2011-12-27 10:31:23 UTC
Laken Starr wrote:
mnybag1 wrote:
Just would like point out that physics dictates that if you are invisible, then you are also blind. Fun fact.


Two-way mirrors called. They just wanted you to know that they're laughing at you right now, you just can't see it. Blink


Two-way mirrors block physical sight. Being invisible (as opposed to being 'not visible') means that light cannot reach your retina. Ergo, to be totally invisible means that you're also totally blind.

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