Thing is. In reality my main has never been seriously harmed by AFK cloaking. And I have the RL financial resources to run a small power use computer to AFK cloak if I wanted to. Yet I don't because I think it is wrong and I KNOW it is giving the huge alliances unbalanced power.

With my main I can get into the big alliances that can put up the big fleets to prevent free hotdrops and have cyno jammers on without issue.

Yet I will continue to push this issue and these ideas for solutions.

OK, now you're babbling incoherently.

There are no afk cloakers in wormholes.

There may or may not be ships in the hole cloaked... that's a simple fact of life you learn to accept and deal with. Hell, I've had the crap startled out of me by a stealth bomber uncloaking while I was running my PI. Fortunately, I keep my haulers prepared for that contingency, survived the first torpedo hit and warped off while the second set was in flight. It's simply the way it is.

The problem with your idea is you break cloaking, which is working (at least in wormholes) quite fine as is. The problem you're failing to address is that cloaking isn't working well enough in empire space... people can still see you in local when cloaked.

You weren't in a Badger by chance?

I was in a WH quite a while ago in a SB looking for a few kills. The hole I was in had a drake at the POS, hulking minig in a belt, and a maelstorm standing watch over it.

Then I scanned down an indy that looked like it was just sitting there, begging to be shot at. I declocked, and after my first or second salvo, away it went.

People really are running instantly for the next dock and refuse to come out because somewhere in the system a ship is sitting around doing effectively nothing?

And are complaining about this?

For real?

Seriously, i think there is something wrong with you.

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?

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?

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.

The only thing necessary to "balance" or "fix" cloaking is to remove the pilot of the cloaked ship from Local.

Other than that, cloaking is probably one of the most balanced mechanics in the game. Just because people are as afraid of AFK cloakies as they are of their own shadow doesn't mean it should be nerfed.

GTFO here with that weak ****.

The solution to AFK Cloaking is not to remove local. That will just boost huge alliances and make it more prevalent.

My probe idea is fair. Because if you cant be bothered to get off grid in the silly long time it takes to scan this random point then you are not just temp AFK you are away from the area or away from the idea of EVE.

Don't remove or delay local. Remove the incentive to go AFK while cloaked.

I replied to someone again stating the "solution" is some big alliance buffing "remove local" deal. Similar to your idea I might add. Both aid the big alliances just differ in how much they "buff"

My idea targets the incentive to walk away while cloaked for long periods of time. It needs to be implemented or another idea that isn't some part "remove my ass from local so I can getz mah free solo kills for the few months they will line up and be mah target"

I replied to someone again stating the "solution" is some big alliance buffing "remove local" deal. Similar to your idea I might add. Both aid the big alliances just differ in how much they "buff"

My idea targets the incentive to walk away while cloaked for long periods of time. It needs to be implemented or another idea that isn't some part "remove my ass from local so I can getz mah free solo kills for the few months they will line up and be mah target"

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.

Bubble up the system gates and destroy the cloaker who eventually leaves the system.

I am still seeing no difference between somone using a cloak and you using a station.

Bubble up the system gates and destroy the cloaker who eventually leaves the system.

I am still seeing no difference between somone using a cloak and you using a station.

Because that was not what cloaking was intended for. AFK cloaking really exploded on the scene when the big alliances recently discovered just how useful it is against the smaller ones.

The incentive has to go

And removing local wont do that

Just give more incentive to AFK cloak to do real damage against those weaker than the huge alliances in game.