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Chance Ravinne
WiNGSPAN Delivery Services
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Posted - 2014.10.06 19:37:00 -
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In my line of work I spend a lot of time cloaked, cruising around w-space. Very frequently, I find players who are online, sitting in their POS doing seemingly nothing. Not ratting, not mining, not fighting or even refitting. Just sitting there for hours and hours. Sometimes there are three of four pilots sitting in caps, and they just end up logging off.
So my question is, what exactly is going on here? Is this some strange religious ritual I don't understand? Is everyone just joking around on comms and using EVE as a pretty screensaver? Or is it space madness?
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Fellblade
Octavian Vanguard
35
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Posted - 2014.10.06 19:41:00 -
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They are waiting for their cloaked scout to find a target so they can provide backup. http://theexcession.blogspot.com - A Wormhole PvP blog. |
Peter Moonlight
Aperture Harmonics No Holes Barred
59
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Posted - 2014.10.06 19:48:00 -
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Fellblade wrote:They are waiting for their cloaked scout to find a target so they can provide backup. This is rarely the case..
Chance Ravinne wrote:In my line of work I spend a lot of time cloaked, cruising around w-space. Very frequently, I find players who are online, sitting in their POS doing seemingly nothing. Not ratting, not mining, not fighting or even refitting. Just sitting there for hours and hours. Sometimes there are three of four pilots sitting in caps, and they just end up logging off.
So my question is, what exactly is going on here? Is this some strange religious ritual I don't understand? Is everyone just joking around on comms and using EVE as a pretty screensaver? Or is it space madness?
Any explanations are welcome. Most of them are AFKing all day long doing nothing or playing some other games or playing on their k-space characters. Those caps that you have seen probably had a scout few hours before they planned to farm, and with the current state of not so safe rolling holes they have a guy or two cloaked on wormholes that are connected to their home system, and if they are any kind of "typical farmers" if they have seen anything jumping inside 1-2 hours, they will not risk it trying to close the wormhole.
So it's basically, AFK,FARM,LOGOFF for most of them, and then there are couple of PVP groups like us that have content creators and other things where we do our best to find PVP and have fun. |
Sylvanium Orlenard
Future Corps Sleeper Social Club
55
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Posted - 2014.10.06 19:58:00 -
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Our religion requires us to spend an enormous amount of time meditating on the generosity of BOB. |
Aquila Sagitta
Blue-Fire
512
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Posted - 2014.10.06 19:59:00 -
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Chance Ravinne wrote:In my line of work I spend a lot of time cloaked, cruising around w-space. Very frequently, I find players who are online, sitting in their POS doing seemingly nothing. Not ratting, not mining, not fighting or even refitting. Just sitting there for hours and hours. Sometimes there are three of four pilots sitting in caps, and they just end up logging off.
So my question is, what exactly is going on here? Is this some strange religious ritual I don't understand? Is everyone just joking around on comms and using EVE as a pretty screensaver? Or is it space madness?
Any explanations are welcome.
POS SPINNING
Its all the rage since stations got the counter. Unfortunately we have to manually keep track and always try to beat each others high scores. Blue-Fire Best Fire |
Aakkonen
The 0rigin Illusion of Solitude
103
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Posted - 2014.10.06 20:12:00 -
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waiting for corp members to log.. or just sitting in cloak and thinking "why the **** I paid 30 day sub again." Bad Jokes since -09.... Fly Safe! o7 |
MooMooDachshundCow
Incertae Sedis
81
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Posted - 2014.10.06 20:40:00 -
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I knew some paranoid individuals in the past who would stay logged in at their tower 24/7 in the idea that this would preclude others from running the sites in their home system. This mentality is related to the "I'll just eject a fleet and leave it floating in my POS shield permanenty" way of thinking.
I don't ascribe much efficacy to either concept though.
Also, in my own case, I'm usually sitting in my POS while my alt is out scanning, which could look like inactivity if you didn't know that I was working my way down the chain.
+1 to most of the above comments as well.
TL:DR - People AFK in their towers for lots of reasons. Mostly because they're playing Archeage. |
Seraph Essael
Devils Diciples League of Infamy
943
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Posted - 2014.10.06 20:50:00 -
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Depends really, some people at the POS will either be doing PI, or waiting for friends to come online, or even (if they have an alt) scouting out the chain, mapping it and looking for a fight.
Alternatively, some will log on and sit chatting in channels for a few hours and being generally social on TS with a beer.
Then there are the people that will sit possed up because you're in their hole or there has been activity. These are the people that either wont fight because they don't like PvP or won't fight because they're outmatched, or the potential to be out matched.
If you find me AFK at a POS you can probably bet I have either gone for a cup of tea or something in RL has popped up. Usually I'll be cloaked or logged off however.
In my travels through my chains I have noticed a trend, as someone stated above, usually it is the farmers that spend their time at their POS AFK. But if you have the patience, you can wait them out.
Many of the PvPers (although I can only speak for myself) will be cloaked waiting for you to make a move as they will already know you are there. Quoted from Doc Fury: "Concerned citizens: Doc seldom plays EVE on the weekends during spring and summer, so you will always be on your own for a couple days a week. Doc spends that time collecting kittens for the on-going sacrifices, engaging in reckless outdoor activities, and speaking in the 3rd person." |
Phoenix Jones
Isogen 5
736
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Posted - 2014.10.06 20:57:00 -
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Peter Moonlight wrote:Fellblade wrote:They are waiting for their cloaked scout to find a target so they can provide backup. This is rarely the case...
Oh that happens on a fairly regular basis, but they aren't there just waiting. Most are doing other items, writing reports, reading up on stuff, playing another alt in some other sector in space (can do one but not the other), or spying on corporations, scouting target holes, or sitting cloaked looking at you when you jump into the hole.
Sometimes to keep you here, we have to bait you with something.
Yaay!!!! |
Enthropic
Infinite Point Nulli Secunda
159
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Posted - 2014.10.06 21:46:00 -
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What im doing in WH space since Hyperion is log a scout in once a day to see if I get a HS scan in to move the rest of my crap out. My WH-corpmates (not the corp my main is in) already left.
Was fun while it lasted, loved WH space, then came Foz.., I mean Hyperion |
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Jack Miton
Isogen 5
3831
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Posted - 2014.10.06 22:13:00 -
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I pretty regularly leave accounts logged in afk at POS when I go to bed or work. *shrug*. if im out scouting i'll almost always have an afk combat pilot or 2 logged in at a POS. Stuck In Here With Me:-á http://sihwm.blogspot.com.au/ Down the Pipe:-á http://downthepipe-wh.com/ |
Icarus Able
Revenant Tactical
490
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Posted - 2014.10.06 23:38:00 -
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Yep mostly i leave one alt logged in at pos while one goes out scouting or roaming..
Or im playing FIFA. |
Derath Ellecon
Washburne Holdings Situation: Normal
2326
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Posted - 2014.10.06 23:40:00 -
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I've come to believe that people sometimes do this as sort of a reverse AFK cloaking. Maybe to make it less likely to have people come in and run their sites while away. Or if they do they would have eyes already logged in to see. |
Hatshepsut IV
Cascading Failure Un.Bound
292
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Posted - 2014.10.07 00:50:00 -
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Chance Ravinne wrote:
W-Space residents: What exactly do you do all day?
Troll the wormhole forums for the forum equivalent to drakes running sites in a c2. You too can start failing today! Reddit-áad | Cascading Failure Public Channel | Aspiring Failure
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Mister Tuggles
Faceless Men
104
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Posted - 2014.10.07 01:22:00 -
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I changed all the passwords on the POS'es and took everyone's stuff when I got a HS.
Boredom will drive you to do strange things. |
Jess Tanner
Hard Knocks Inc.
141
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Posted - 2014.10.07 01:59:00 -
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Lets just say, Its a sekret... Go with Bob, keep Him always in your heart. He is your Sword, Shield, and the Knife in your back.
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Kirasten
No Vacancies
109
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Posted - 2014.10.07 02:41:00 -
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Pretty much anything. I could be cleaning my kitchen. I could be watching TV. I could be playing EFT. Yesterday I spent a couple hours updating my skill plans for my characters. Sometimes I'm just talking to corp members. Sometimes i'm talking to other corp members. Sometimes I'm out scouting with one and sitting in the pos with another. Sometimes I am trying to motivate myself to actually try and figure out how to set up my PI. I could be in the shower. I could be napping. I need to make some cookies soon, so you can pretty much guarantee that i'll be floating for that.
You crazy people that actually log out of the game when you aren't playing confuse me.
:) |
Michael Ruckert
SECURE TRANSPORTS
197
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Posted - 2014.10.07 02:54:00 -
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Looks like no one in WH space has an AFK sex life. What?? "No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy." - Laurence Olivier |
IIFraII
The Red Circle Inc. Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork
22
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Posted - 2014.10.07 05:46:00 -
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Michael Ruckert wrote:Looks like no one in WH space has an AFK sex life. What??
Solo sex life counts? |
Jay Joringer
United System's Commonwealth
408
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Posted - 2014.10.07 08:48:00 -
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Based purely on what happened yesterday:
-Logged in -Admired the new pink C5 nebula, and for a moment, forgot about #$%@ frigate WHGÇÖs -Complemented Corpmates on their forum prowess and the fact that they never troll -Mocked scouts for bad scannings skills -Mocked scouts for not being able to D-scan -Mocked scouts for poor adherence to bookmarking conventions -Got mocked by some guys in Providence -Caused offending provi-bloc pilots to explode and counter mocked them with an appropriate gif in local -Camped someoneGÇÖs POS (privately mocking his defences) -Ganked POS owner and stole his skill books! -Mocked our HIC pilot for allowing yet another pod to escape -Found a Phoenix in an SMA at an offline tower in a C3. -Chuckled about the Phoenix after realising the SMA wasnGÇÖt empty, as it was initially assumed. -Proudly declared that itGÇÖs been ages since I lost a Dramiel -Lost a Dramiel -Rage-logged
Always bet on stupid
http://smug-bastard.blogspot.co.uk
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Viscis Breeze
No Vacancies
65
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Posted - 2014.10.07 08:56:00 -
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When I didn't have a job I never logged off... Recruitment: http://bit.ly/1r4G5Pv Website: http://www.no-vacancies.net/ Channel: No Vacancies
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Terrorfrodo
Renegade Hobbits for Mordor
666
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Posted - 2014.10.07 10:05:00 -
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People afk'ing in POS are either bears or incompetent. Pvp players wouldn't want to alarm others to their presence and/or scare them off their home sites.
Although admittedly it doesn't really matter for very large corps because there are always some people visible for one reason or another and nobody would run sites in their home anyway. Still, good corps have rules for hiding their numbers, always. Pilots afk'ing uncloaked should be bumped out of the forcefield as a matter of policy . |
Jez Amatin
Enso Corp
29
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Posted - 2014.10.07 11:12:00 -
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Chance Ravinne wrote:In my line of work I spend a lot of time cloaked, cruising around w-space. Very frequently, I find players who are online, sitting in their POS doing seemingly nothing. Not ratting, not mining, not fighting or even refitting. Just sitting there for hours and hours. Sometimes there are three of four pilots sitting in caps, and they just end up logging off.
So my question is, what exactly is going on here? Is this some strange religious ritual I don't understand? Is everyone just joking around on comms and using EVE as a pretty screensaver? Or is it space madness?
Any explanations are welcome.
aside from all the other explanations, i'd throw in the years of ccp neglect followed by the ineffective hyperion patch... to be honest you're lucky if you find ppl afking in a pos, alot of the wh have no one in them. now it may be that some are concerned with concealing their epeen, but i prefer to keep the explanation simple:
- not enough people actually living in wspace (and too many bear / alt corps that switch to k-space when probes are out) - incentives to leave POS are no longer what they were (low class income, amount of space work to do etc...)
/not bitter |
ZenSun
eXceed Inc. No Holes Barred
1
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Posted - 2014.10.07 12:14:00 -
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likely k-space people do the same in.. stations.. right? |
ZenSun
eXceed Inc. No Holes Barred
1
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Posted - 2014.10.07 12:15:00 -
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Jez Amatin wrote:not bitter
bitter |
Andrew Jester
Origin. Black Legion.
712
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Posted - 2014.10.07 13:30:00 -
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I sit in the POS to show that I'm active so I don't get kicked. If thuggin' was a category I'd win a Grammy |
Rek Seven
Probe Patrol Ixtab.
1904
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Posted - 2014.10.07 13:32:00 -
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I'm usually watching you, watching me... +1 |
Ghenghis Kralj
Big Johnson's
29
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Posted - 2014.10.07 17:08:00 -
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If I am not fapping, I am smanging. Or awoxing. |
chris elliot
Yoyodyne corporation Shadow Cartel
412
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Posted - 2014.10.07 17:41:00 -
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People stay logged in in w-space? Color me surprised! |
Scrubnbubble
Danneskjold Shipping Chained Reactions
25
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Posted - 2014.10.07 23:24:00 -
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My day typically goes like this.
Log in Hit D-scan AFK Open up LoL Play a few games of LoL Do some ranked LoL Hit D-scan Log off LoL Log off Eve Go to sleep. |
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