To get to it, Your presence in EVE is gameplay relevant. You're existence in a system affects flow and control of gameplay.

Being at attendance of your computer is you playing the game. AFK cloaking is a process of botting by allowing your computer to alter gameplay without your actual presence.

Discuss, and I'm mad, no I'm not quitting, I wish I had stuff so give me yours first.

I love it how miners get lambasted for playing the game by afk mining, but oh my god, how dare we touch the sacred cow of afk cloaking...

Engaging the hypocrisy drive! Full burn!

Even then, afk mining isn't so much a problem except when they whine about getting ganked. And then propose stupid ideas to counter ganks.

Because for all their chest beating and insults slung at high-seccers null-sec players are the biggest carebears ever, won't rat without an empty system, won't mine without 100 friends on batphone, won't enter grid without numerical superiority and capital backup, lets face facts null-sec is full of pussies.

/Flame

Been there, done that couln't stand 3-4 hour PoS bashes left after a month. Also stop alt-poasting

Boredom.

It is the counter. Watching rocks evaporate is boring. They go afk to do something more stimulating. On the rare occasions I mine I bring a book.

This whole topic is debatable
Turning up in a cloaky ship in a enemy system and creating havoc and messing up any pve or industrial ops is a valid tactic , however. Waking up in the morning moving a cloaky. Ship into a enemy system and then go to work or school for the rest of the day is in my opinion pretty lame and depends how you look at it even be regarded as a form of botting or even a exploit

I always been in favour for introducing a new gamemechanic that will prevent such a thing
Preferably something skilledbbased that will not actually decloak. But will reveal a sphere where the cloaky ship is inbetter your skill and more time you invest the smaller the detectionsphere will be and will be up to the defenders to figure out a way to dispose of him , a cloaker who is active will be moving around and be almost impossible to detect but a real afk cloaker will eventually be detected and will most likely find himself in a new clone when he comes back home a new kind of probes could do the trick

indeed it is IF you are actual check your afk cloaker on regular intervals
If you are at work or school all day it serves no purpose for you or your corporation only that one day they will do the same to you and you will whine qbout it

There's just no reasoning with the baby nullbears. I honestly don't know why they even attempt to live in nullsec if they're this scared and risk-averse.