CCP should provide star trek tricorder scanning for life signs in front of the monitor. If they are none the cloak would disengage automatically.

There has been alot of solutions and topics how they would be countered.

Main problem seems to be that most of the solutions would kill cloaking completely. I would personaly want to see fuel bays for the specialized ships and just fuel in cargo bay for others. And it would be CCPs problem how to balance it so that it would be fair to the ones using cloaks and it would also kill afk cloaking. Mayby higher meta level mods would consume less fuel so you could cloack up for longer period of times or something.

I don't see how this would ruin cloaking completely. It would just mean that if your stupid enough to leave your ship to be cloaked for long period of times without you being around someone would eventualy find you and kill you if they wanted to. You could still do all the psychological warfare you want by being in the system or traps and so on but you would most importantly be active and not passive ratting in empire waiting there and not even paying attention.

And stop posting no no no no I can't play without afk cloaking and start saying something constructive.

ofc cloakers who cry at every attempt to target their immunity in nullsec. Theres a place for this way of playstyle in eve --> Hisec

you can stay there for ages without anyone targeting you, dont even have to turn on cloak ^^

I see your point and raise you 1 off grid boosting ship.

PS never stated Cloak disruptor had to have a system wide range, probably in the AUs though.

Again, allow me suggest another type of cloak (Ambusher) that can be fitted by combat ships that can be countered with disruptor. Cov-Ops (intelligence gathering) ships can retain the old (Spy) type cloak and remain utterly undetectable.

Not to invalidate your perspective, I'd like to get into that shortly. However I have yet to receive a response to the proposal of diversifying cloaking modules based on task and effectiveness, versus one Uber cloak. Would really appreciate some feedback.
Also considering within that suggestion, is the allowance to maintain undiscoverable cloaking as it stands.

but perhaps that is for another thread. Either way. Lets look at the reasonhs for AFKing. I presume you have some ideas, as you brought it up.

allow me to translate this into big boy adult talk for everyone else

"oh god please don't change the game I'm afraid of change its like leaving my parents basement please godno"
now hush... the adults are talking.

If I walk away with one thing from this thread, its that there are several issues all woven together making the fix for these issues bigger then sliding a bar one way or the other. I will conced that simply adding a new module to find the one covert ops cloak is an insufficient fix, and humbly retire to my lab to think this through further.

cheers, and respect to those of you capable of communicating ideas, to the rest, I appreciate the entertainment.

Douglas MacArthur "I shall return"

No, this topic there is only "Remove AFK cloaking". There is just one part here. If we go for all AFK activities we can close the game right now cause you can list manufacturing, reserch, invention, P.I. and almost all other industry based activities to your part 1 and without those there will be no EVE cause you would not have ships to blow up.