Should I respond to this? Should I? Yep. You're a poor troll.

Only time you know he is NOT AFK is when he drops a cyno on your ass. Until that moment, all you can assume is that he will. But you already know that.

lolz. Yep. I'm Riverini. There, ya found me out... That's why I hate Goons and Welpcats so much.

But yes. That, and the combination of JB nerf and Sanctum nerf.... And I'll bet my 10 ice roids to your 5 Brutix's that many did the same thing.

I can make more in highsec doing L4's or buzzing around WH's/lowsec looking for loose change.

Sorry. I get so used to nobody being clever 'round here that I miss it when it happens.

That's a fair point and you're right - and nor should we be safe (with some exceptions in my view but I won't go there in this thread).

But in all of the examples above, player needs to be active and there is as much risk to the agressor as there is to the agressee. Except maybe in the case of a WH but he can't cyno in a fleet against you either. They all have to be there - as a fleet to pull off the kill.

As for highseccers, if a DekCo cowboy (who should be -10 to all ice miners by now) was in system and you kept mining, more fool he. He may have a good tank and decide you are no threat. If he sees 10 reds come in - he leaves. No such option with cyno fleet.

An AFK cloaky has no risk, no counter and is as effective as sending in a 50 man red fleet.

And he's in bed, fast asleep doing it.

Don't allow ships to fit both a cyno and a cloak at the same time. That'll stop the cap ship drops and the cloaky can continue to have fun being afk.

And a 10 hour destro alt cannot kill a half decent tank. Needs many more and local is a dead giveaway to a half decent player.

Best drops are paired. Both on target, one drops cyno, other points. Under 10 seconds to a good team. You virtually have to be mashing warp before the decloak even happens.

And it takes a finite amount of time for a hot-drop to happen anyway. The titan pilot/supercap fleet/Blackops has to select the bridge to/jump to menu option, hit the relevant item, then if it's a bridging the ships in the fleet have to use the bridge - then they all have to load grid. Really, there's enough time for a properly paranoid victim of a drop to figure out what's happening. They might not be able to do anything about it if their ship is fat and slow, or they're a dumb bot (serves them right if they are), but a cyno != a doomsday.

At least, not since they took that stupid feature out years before I started playing EvE.

The best solution is just ignore the cloaky alts

You dont mine in null sec for PROFIT, you mine there for resources, and it's more convenient than relying on logistics to bring in resources from high sec. If you are unable to deal with a few enemy ships in system and cannot go next door or otherwise deal with the problem then you need to start bringing in resources from elsewhere. You may not like this but its the truth.

The idea that there is no problem with afk cloaking as it is, is laughable. If someone in your system is sitting in a recon, cloaked, all you can say for certain is that he could drop an undefined number of people onto you at damn near any time he pleases, and you would get absolutely no warning of it until it's too late to react.

Only for really, really dumb people.

see, I don't have that fear
if you wan't to come afk blueball yourself to death down in syndicate I'll be more than happy to laugh at you in local

The Apostle left nullsec because he was unwilling to jump next door to the system with the afk cloaker to do his ratting. Logic isn't going to be effective.

All i've seen in this thread are ratters scared of the contacts in local, and the "pvpers" who think its impossible to hide without a cloaking device. Both pathetic.

Interesting use of evasive maneuvers.

So those would have no problem with cloaking detection mechanics, however hard and troublesome they might be, with or without local? If so i apologize to those, because you stand in the same position as i do.

Plasma seeking torpedoes

Wow impressive use of fancy words just to say "I don't give a ****" Linguistic skills paying those bills!