This is my fully detailed idea to address the issue of balance in the current cloaking system on Tranquility as of this post.

Unbalanced. You cant destroy a cloaked contact regardless of the player is asleep, in school, etc.. Read the OP. With my plan he takes a risk doing these actions while online. If he is not AFK it wont matter except some frustrated probers.

This plan will help balance cloaking.

Don't like what someone dares to mention or debates on the forum?

Nine out of ten times though the cloaker activates the micro warp drive fitted in his med slot to get out of scramble range. Then warp off to somewhere and activates the cloak. Safe and sound again.

Come put the POS into reinforced. Bubble up the station and destroy the players who eventually undock. Capture the station system and force the player to try to undock to escape or clone jump to do anything.

Many ways to counter those types. None to remove an AFK cloak contact that can hotdrop or attack at any time he chooses after a relaxing bath, a night out, or good sleep.

Thats the tenth time, the one time where the agressor maybe decided to stay for just a little to long. Or forgot to align to a safe spot. Or was just a little less focused than usual.

So your solution instead of addressing the solution is removing them from local so they have even more guaranteed free kills.

No that is not a solution and yes I am trying to break AFK cloaking. The same argument you make can be made for the "need" of AFK cloaking in any space. "We NEED to counter local" "We NEED to get these (free) kills"

If you can sit there in a system cloaked with access to Dscan then go take a shower take a nap or do what you want. I want it made risky. Not exempted.

I never said they could not be caught

and did I invent a statistic?

Nine out of ten times........

Thats the tenth time.....

Do you or do you not walk away from the client or otherwise not pay attention to it while cloaked while online for an extended period of time?

That is AFK cloaking.

No offence to the guys who want to cloak and stuff BUT if almost everyone is thinking ideas how to counter afk cloaking doesn't that mean there is a problem in the game mechanics?

Sadly the thing is it is not almost everyone. Many while and complain in corp chat but are too damn lazy to get out and discuss in the topics discussing the issue of AFK cloaking.

Hell the people who are doing AFK cloaking are atleast putting the time in to defend their unbalanced activity.

It is not a direct nerf on cloaking as say a fuel bay would. It targets the incentive to AFK for hours on end. And is adaptable so CCP can play with the timing to find what works best.

I call that balance.

I highly doubt my plan would ruin the game.

Again wrong. Otherwise I could have joined the countless others who say "Give em an AFK timer" instead of thinking of a balanced way to address the issue of going afk.

That is why this topic is getting so much attention. It is not a rage topic made after losing a ship but a topic made after observing the situation for quite some time and watching the problem get worse.

If this idea were implemented the AFK cloakers would have to log off and lose their free effect. Or risk being found and destroyed. They will have to join the many other active cloakers in getting their kill.

The thought of losing that daily free "SOLO KILL" sticker is what is driving a good chunk of opposition to this topic in my opinion. Same exact thing as the risk free hisec ganks of freighters before CCP buffed concord.

I hate you for dredging this up again.

What makes you think likes are ANY kind of measure of an idea? I have 608 likes does that make me awesome or does it mean that some fool ran a script to like just about every post I ever made?

Could care less what you think about this topic really. It has been modified and now stands as a valid idea. It removes the incentive to AFK cloak without ruining cloaking or nullsec.