This again, it must be something to do with the time of year, that or an ongoing lack of imagination and guts.

OP, a cloaky in local is only a problem if you let it be one, sitting in station trembling does you no good.

Organise a heavily tanked bait ship to go ratting (or use a Skiff to mine) and have a gang ready to warp in on the bait when the drop happens, make sure your bait has points and your bound to snag something. Making your lurker think every ship he sees is a trap is the best way of getting him to move to fresh pastures but it takes time coordination and patience.

If you can't manage that then you either need to join a corp that can or move somewhere less challenging to you.

Of course not, since cloaked ships can't do anything remotely aggressive to you.

Do hound torps do much against a Macinaw?

Only if uncloaked and if not afk.

meh, this thread / topic never dies. *slaps himself*

SO, should a mackinaw pilot simply ignore a cloaky neut in a system where he's mining? Is that wise?

The problem is that even if he is afk, at some point, unknown to the Mackinaw, he'll return to the keyboard. And the first indicator might be a shrapnel bomb pointed at him.

SO, should a mackinaw pilot simply ignore a cloaky neut in a system where he's mining? Is that wise?

The problem is that even if he is afk, at some point, unknown to the Mackinaw, he'll return to the keyboard. And the first indicator might be a shrapnel bomb pointed at him.

Hi,

what can we do against afk stelth pilots in 0.0 ? Nothing !!!

She wait any hours and we cant mining, ratting ore others.... attacks comes only vs mining Barges ore infight Ships and are rar....


CCP we need a tactic against this idiots.... thats not pvp.


AFK waiting for 4 ore more hours is an Exploit.


Hoc

lol don't you love it when you get players going,, NO NO NO,, leave our fav thing to do alone, even if it is without a counter to it.

I have a question for cloakers, the so called AFK ones, why are you so afraid of a counter to cloaking ?

i use cloaks all the time and wouldn't have a problem with there being a counter to it, infact it would make the hunt/being hunted that bit more exciting

i might be wrong, but meh, the only reason i'd not want a counter to cloaking is if i was AFK and could be found while i was busy watching tv/playing another game/on another account/walking the dogs/having a sleep/not paying attention to the game.

the only reason i can see for people not wanting a counter to cloaks say a ship (destroyers) being able to fit a module that can transmit a signal within the same range of a directional scanner that would upset a cloaking device enough to allow the right skilled player to be able to probe him down, perhaps with specialized probes would be if your AFK.
because i know if was cloaked and being hunted i'd be bouncing around the system.

fear a change to cloaking mechanics, fear the cloak disruptors AFK pilots, i don't blame you lol

Hi,

what can we do against afk stelth pilots in 0.0 ? Nothing !!!

If it is a legitimate afk stealth pilot the human body has ways of trying to shut that whole thing down.

lol don't you love it when you get players going,, NO NO NO,, leave our fav thing to do alone, even if it is without a counter to it.

I have a question for cloakers, the so called AFK ones, why are you so afraid of a counter to cloaking ?

lol don't you love it when you get players going,, NO NO NO,, leave our fav thing to do alone, even if it is without a counter to it.

There's no counter to local

AFK cloaking is only an attempt to subvert it's value.

If you couldn't AFK cloak carebears like yourself would just dock up, then come right back out when you leave.

But if you AFK cloak, because of the carebear's lack of willpower, intelligence and avarice they will eventually crawl out where they can be killed.

This again?

Isn't the issue more with the local channel than anything else? Without local channel, no one would ever cry about stealth pilots.

On the other hand you could technically say that said stealth pilots are using local channel in a way that wasn't meant to be used. Namely by purposefully making their presence known with the knowledge that they cannot be touched in any way, shape or form. Which is a bad thing for those that don't realize this. That said players cannot be touched that is. Or molested. Or worse.

I've heard there are belts in other systems.

Hi,

what can we do against afk stelth pilots in 0.0 ? Nothing !!!

She wait any hours and we cant mining, ratting ore others.... attacks comes only vs mining Barges ore infight Ships and are rar....


CCP we need a tactic against this idiots.... thats not pvp.


AFK waiting for 4 ore more hours is an Exploit.


Hoc

They are not AFK.

At least you can't know.

This is funny and hypocritical. You guys claim you dont know if an AFK cloaker is there or not and it part of the game blaaa blaaa blaaa, yet you fail to apply that same logic to a possible afk ice miner. Sorta funny how people tend to justify things to meet their own needs.