Your Eve client sits waiting for you to roll your mouse, click on something or press a key. Whatever key you press, whatever mouse action occurs, a function is called and things swing into action.

Let's say no inputs occur for 5 minutes. Your drones redock and/or your mining lasers stop. Let's say no inputs occur after 15 minutes, your mods turn off.

If any of the possible inputs occur, timer restarts. i.e. Active players are not penalised - ever.

You're not there? We don't care. Cascading systems failure. Worth a thought?



Notes:
- It's not a new thought but "AFK" seem to be a point of contention and generates a lot of "I hate you".
- AFK miners, missioners and cloakers are exempt from this thread. They won't see it anyway.
- This does not stop bots. If you suspect a bot, please report to the approriate authorities.


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Stealth Nerf Cloaky Afk Thead ^_^

So basically an anti AFK cloaker thread?

Stealth Nerf Cloaky Afk Thead ^_^

So basically an anti AFK cloaker thread?

ah they decloaked!!!

Genius! Kewpie Doll.

'cept....

Them (the scourge of 0.0) AND AFK miners, AFK missioners...

ANYONE - EVERYONE - AFK

You AFK right now? I wish...

NO

Genius! Kewpie Doll.

'cept....

Them (the scourge of 0.0) AND AFK miners, AFK missioners...

ANYONE - EVERYONE - AFK

You AFK right now? I wish...

you hurt my afk cloak fun.

Paradox much?

TWO capital letters.

^^ AFK miner and missioner.

Stealth Nerf Cloaky Afk Thead ^_^

people don't afk mine by choice.

No? Have a rethink.

A lot of people mine because they CAN go AFK. That's sorta the point.

All that work for nothing.

and?

that doesn't change the fact that even being at the keyboard doesn't require any interaction so even some one at the keyboard will still get modules turned off and drones redocked.

hence, your idea is bad. also, you should feel bad.

Got it. Didn't know it was around.

As an aside. Ya sorta think if you need an app to stop the saver and lock, then just turn the saver and locking off. I call it "duh software". You have to turn the duh software off to lock the PC, may as well just lock the PC.

No? Have a rethink.

A lot of people mine because they CAN go AFK. That's sorta the point.

I feel terribad.

I had NO IDEA so many people were HAPPY to have AFK as a feature of Eve given the number "you are AFK and you must die" posts I see.

I promise I will probably never do it again.

Stealth Nerf Cloaky Afk Thead ^_^

Who cares if they go afk for a bit??? Why does it affect anyone??? So what if they want to help their kids with homework, surf the web, get some work done while they are also mining.. I'ts called multi-tasking and I don't care!!!! It does not affect me ONE BIT. In fact it makes them a better gank target.

Why would afk mining bother anyone? There they are. A hulk mining away - I dont' care if they are present at their pc or not, why do you care about it so much Touval?

it has nothing to do with being happy with it. having said that; if i couldn't go afk while mining i wouldn't mine. the isk/hour wouldn't be worth it if i couldn't go and do something else while mining. i don't mind pausing my tv every few mins to tab back to eve to unload cargo and change targets, that's about as much as i'm willing to do for mining's **** poor isk/hour though.

your idea is terrible and badly thought out because you've never either encountered, emulated, or even tried to understand the "problem" you're trying to fix.

(pssst..... I have been an AFK cloaker, an AFK miner, an AFK missioner. For a long time...)

sure, he means he is sorry he made this post. and you should move onto a nerf high sec thread.

Happy to help.

Sometimes, those things are under administrator control and no matter how often you explain to IT that it looks bad when the screen goes black in the middle of your presentation in front of WealthyCustomer LLCGäó, they just refuse to relax the restrictionsGǪ

So basically an anti AFK cloaker thread?

A day doesn't go by that I'm not fascinated with people here so damned determined to stick their nose in other people's business. I'd say I don't get it, but it makes perfect sense to me. Me, I live my life and don't give a crap about what other people do. But others here (as evidenced on just about every game platform) have this driving need to assert some kind of control over other people's lives.

There's a name (dare I say "diagnosis"?) for that...

may i quoute evenews :

"The nullsec player who stops doing what theyGÇÖre doing just because some invisible ship is sitting in system, they should spend less time complaining, and more time feeling ashamed of themselves."

people don't afk mine by choice, there's absolutely nothing to do while you're waiting for an asteroid to pop, there's 0 reason to be interacting with the game until your cargo is full, or your asteroid pops. that can regularly take more than 5 mins.

If we remove local u don't even know people are there so why don't we do that then don't have to be worried if that reds afk or not.

Lets see, these afk cloaking threads usually end with, there is nothing wrong with cloaking, nerf local.
So, there is nothing wrong with cloaking, remove local and eferything will be alright

Actually it's rather balanced at the moment, even though they fail to see that.
But if people want to nerf AFKing, then the local intel channel needs to be changed in order to keep balance.

I personally like the system as it is and love the addition of psychological warfare.

Funny thing is, that's exactly what miners asked for with the barge buffs.

There used to be a reason to interact with the game, and that reason for interaction resulted in record incomes for those miners who were willing to interact, but the great blubbering masses were vehemently opposed to needing to interact with the game, so there we are.

wrong. they didn't want a 200m ship to be blown up by a 2m ship in about 10 seconds flat. the barge buff fixed that. the barge buff had absolutely nothing to do with interaction, or lack of interaction, with the game.

What they said was that it wasn't supposed to be profitable to gank the hull itself, which it was due to salvaging often yielding something which did make it economically viable to do so.

either way, it had **** all to do with afk mining.

Actually it's rather balanced at the moment, even though they fail to see that.
But if people want to nerf AFKing, then the local intel channel needs to be changed in order to keep balance.

I personally like the system as it is and love the addition of psychological warfare.

Let me tell you a story of Joe.

Joe was a sniper, one of the best in the world. But like all snipers, Joe couldn't just arrive the same day his target arrived. Joe had to plan, prepare, and wait. He parachuted in a week early and waited, memorizing the daily activity of the guards and watching their tendencies and routine. Perhaps it was because of Joe's dedication that he noticed something odd about the compound he was camping: the car that arrived each day wasn't the same car that left. It turns out that they were using electric cars that took the entire day to charge. Had Joe missed this detail he would have shot his target, picked off the guards, made it to the car, and been left stranded out in the highway before ever getting back to the city.

To you, the cloaked ship in your system is AFK. But to someone like Joe, that AFK cloaked ship is a hunter collecting the most valuable asset in EVE: information.

Another afk cloak whine? Gosh