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Eve is to hard, make it easier for me.

Saying this screams "I don't understand the mechanics of nullsec or warfare with limited information."

I understand it perfectly, but a person who is afk can't exactly do anything to hurt you.

Continue to broadcast your complete lack of understanding.

Is it willful ignorance or just ignorance?

Please enlighten us all about how a person who is AFK is hurting your game play.

If you feel you can't do anything with an AFK cloaker in your system, then it's all on you. There's plenty of people that find ways to continue activities regardless of an AFK cloaker.
Granted that most people don't & would rather complain about it or stop playing.

"AFK Cloaker" is a name. The act is simply remaining cloaked in a system. It causes some players to become overly cautious.

The entire point, and the only reason it is something people do, is because of the fact that it is impossible to discern what the cloaker is doing. He could be a bomber looking for an easy gank, a scout reporting intel, a cyno waiting for an opportunity to bridge a hostile fleet in, anything really. Players who aren't used to this ever-present threat become nervous and may even refuse to undock. In the middle of a war, an excessive amount of cloakers in system can mean a whole lot of things, and ops sometimes need to be planned around them to misdirect the enemy, bait them or avoid detection.

If they are looking for an easy gank, they are not AFK.
If they are reporting intel, they are not AFK.
If they are looking for an opportune moment to bridge in a fleet, they are not AFK.

AFK cloaker is the name for people that sit in a system cloaked for 23.5 hours a day & never actually do anything, which seems to affect people more than people doing the above. The above scenarios are not AFK cloakers, they are people playing the game.

You're arguing semantics and further proving my point.

If arguing facts makes you feel this way, then I don't know what to tell you.

Use your damn brain, man. I refuse to believe it is this hard for you to grasp such a simple concept.

It is a name. The whole point is that no one except the pilot "afk cloaking" knows if he is afk or up to something. That is literally the only reason it is a viable tactic. afk cloaking does not specifically refer to the case of the pilot actually being afk.

I see what you're trying to say but generalising doesn't make you correct any more than insulting some one that disagrees with you does.

I read all of your words, but the main problem with Null Sec is your Mega Blob and Blue list.

I read all of your words, but the main problem with Null Sec is your Mega Blob and Blue list.

nerf friendmaking

Endless blue lists should be nerfed...if you want to make friends...go on Facebook.

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

Did I say Eve should be played solo?

I read all of your words, but the main problem with Null Sec is your Mega Blob and Blue list.

I read all of your words, but the main problem with Null Sec is your Mega Blob and Blue list.

Warning: I'm not an expert on sov mechanics at all. What I say from here on should not be taken too seriously, as I've made it a point to avoid playing the nullsec politics game and have never had the opportunity to learn first-hand the workings of sov. I've read the wikis, but we all know that's not the same. Now, on to my point...

I kind of like the idea of making POCOs the controlling factor of sov. After all, it makes sense that planetary systems would be the ultimate objective of controlling a star system; the vast and unseen empires of Eve aren't the ships in space, but the people on the ground. The billions upon billions of individuals who toil down below, who we seek to conquer and exploit.

It would also add a bit of a "terrain" feel to combat, where you fight from location to location in a system, moving from one to the next in a war of conquest.

As for the "problem" of afk cloaking: DO NOT TOUCH MY COVOPS CLOAK. Period. Timers and fuel requirements just make long-term scouting operations a practical impossibility. It utterly defeats the purpose of covops cloaks, and you might as well yank them out of the game. No, a thousand times no.