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ShahFluffers
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Posted - 2011.08.10 07:05:00 -
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Oh look... it's THIS thread again.
No. Cloaking is fine the way it is. AFK cloakers cannot harm you as they are Away From Komputer. At the same time, you live in null-sec and thus should be prepared for any situation that is tossed at you... including a surprise attack.
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ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
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Posted - 2011.08.11 07:50:00 -
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Edited by: ShahFluffers on 11/08/2011 07:50:39
 Originally by: Cynoska McNamara
If I have the sovereignty of a system should have the right to hunt (or try to) the enemy.
Here's where you go wrong. You have the "right" to nothing. Especially not in null-sec. Even the cloaker doesn't have the "right" to kill someone. The onus is on BOTH parties to be more prepared and clever than the other one using what resources they have available.
For the cloakers... their strength is that they cannot be probed down. If they get into a system they can bide their time and wait til someone does something stupid (like fly a lightly tanked PVE gank-battleship with T1 drones).
Their weaknesses are that their ship will not stand up very well in a straight fight against a ship fitted with the proper defenses and that their target might have friendly ships nearby to assist.
For the "defenders"... their strengths are that they can effectively deny entry into the system in the first place using bubbles and gatecamps, they have a wealth of friendly ships in system that can assist when needed, they have a station and/or POS to refit or swap their ship anytime they wish, and they can actually do something productive with their time rather than just wait.
What weaknesses I can potentially see on the part of the defenders are (but not limited to); not having anyone online to assist (in which case, that person should consider beefing up their ship's point defenses)... and... ummm... uhh... running a bit of blank here. From where I stand, the defenders have most of the advantages except that they have one red "blip" in the local chat.
edit: fail quoting 
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ShahFluffers
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Posted - 2011.08.15 23:56:00 -
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Originally by: Ares Heremod
@ShahFluffers- OK. I am confused. AFK means 'Away From Keyboard,' not 'Away From Komputer,' right?
Anyways, I am a highsec carebear. To get me out of 0.5 space requires a lot of courage on my part. So I might not 'get' all of your meaning on the subject, but I'm trying. But I still don't understand why even cloakers that are active and at the keyboard are that big of a problem... I have Concord to back me up, you have your alliance mates to get your back, right? So to me since you know he is there he has a higher risk of getting killed than you do. Seeing that as soon as the cloaker un-cloaked he has a high chance of getting killed. Because you already know he's there! And as for the AFKloakers... yes they are annoying, but so are the rats...
Heh... I was a tad bored when I wrote that post. Saying "Komputer" rather than "Keyboard" was mildly amusing as I knew it would slightly tick off the OP and his/her ilk.
To the meat of your post... this whole thread is in reference to what goes on out in 0.0 to -1.0 security systems. And yes, your sentiments mirror what I was trying to get across. 
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