Keep the probes close in on your fleet, keep them cycling, and you're literally immune to stealth bombers.

Why do you want to buff blobs?

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Having someone in a probe ship keeping gaurd is akin to having a pvp escort. It is a fairy tale that never really happens

I need proof please!! An AFK cloaker is killing ships in your system? That is one frigging awesome EVE player if he can kill stuff while AFK!! ;)

Just think how bad it would be if there was no local??!! Gasp, the horror!!! EVE should have a type of space that has no local and see how it goes?? ;)

As long as it is one ship + null sex style local, I see no problem. If you are worried they may bring tons of friends in with a cyno then that is a different issue with a definite solution.

You bring in the option to find every bomber that tried to hit you and you can 100% guarantee that it will happen when any fleet is in one place for any length of time. bringing a few probers along will be pretty much mandatory.

When there is a cloaker in system, people can never be sure when that person is online, and I have seen pilots let their guard down after a couple hours, warp to a gate or Asteroid field, and get popped.

Now, as I have never run stealth, I don't have an issue with local. However, it seems that local is a major issue for many people running stealth. As many people as those that have a problem with AFK cloakers. So there is two issues here.

Prevent AFK cloaking without ruining the cloaking mechanic and prevent local from showing cloaked ships.

When there is a cloaker in system, people can never be sure when that person is online, and I have seen pilots let their guard down after a couple hours, warp to a gate or Asteroid field, and get popped.

Well, that's sort of the idea. If your in a system with 50+ hostile a hunting your 10 man gang there should have to be some effort into staying hidden properly. Periodically bounce safes and celestials. We already use this tactic even for non-cloaky ships trying to run. And I know that often bomber fleets will scatter themselves across the system until they actually have a target and are ready to drop. By that time even having the best probers in EVE won't do much to stop them. At that point probing won't do anything and it comes down to a fleets ability to react and counter-attack/flee. And when it comes to a blopdrop none if this really comes into play.

Well, that's sort of the idea. If your in a system with 50+ hostile a hunting your 10 man gang there should have to be some effort into staying hidden properly. Periodically bounce safes and celestials. We already use this tactic even for non-cloaky ships trying to run. And I know that often bomber fleets will scatter themselves across the system until they actually have a target and are ready to drop. By that time even having the best probers in EVE won't do much to stop them. At that point probing won't do anything and it comes down to a fleets ability to react and counter-attack/flee. And when it comes to a blopdrop none if this really comes into play.

So the idea is to make it impossible to bomb large fleets? If I have 250 guys in my fleet, and there are 40 hostile bombers setting up for a run, then it will be incredibly easy to find them and warp the prober and his squad on top of them to kill them before they can hit me. Explain why that is a good idea?

Right now bombers are a great way to take down a fleet with much lower numbers. Explain why you want this removed.

There is another potential problem there but I'm still waiting for someone to state it.

Cloaking is not an issue. AFK cloaking is not an issue. There is another potential problem there but I'm still waiting for someone to state it.

Christ...the next person that makes a AFK cloaky whine thread gets locator agents run on them and gets their system camped by my alt's bomber.

Having someone in a probe ship keeping gaurd is akin to having a pvp escort. It is a fairy tale that never really happens

Or a person with an alt, which happens all the freaking time.

Or a booster ship with a probe launcher...that never ever happens...oh wait...

You have a point with the booster alt. however I still fail to see how this makes you immune to bombers. Just because I know there's a murder in my house doesn't mean he's all of the sudden unable to kill me.

If the bombers are gathering on the target then they are too close to warp. And when they are waiting for a target (like I said before) they are scattered at positions of each pilots own discretion (not all eggs in one basket. There's always that one lemming who might accidentally decloak all his buddies) so having scattered forces reduces the impact if any one pilot is caught. This isn't a new tactic either, people already use this. If they are competent pilots they are aligned toward a celestial near target and ready to go. That's how guerrilla tactics work. That's what covert ops are. Even a non-cloaked ships evade capture so long as they are constantly moving (the exception being larger, less agile ships). It's not that difficult nor too complicated.

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Cloaked bombers don't decloak one another.

Bombers gathering on perches in positions to hit the fleet will now easily be found, warped to and killed before they can bomb.

Scatter them too much and you can't do the four runs from four directions to skullfuck a fleet thing.

If I know bombers are on grid or very close to my fleet, I can have my dictors get defensive bubbles up, my anti-support get ready, my fleet turn off MWDs, my logis lock things up, and if they're close enough, think about overheating hardeners just to be sure.

it's simple strategy: i waste time and effort hunting bombers down while the enemy fleet is left to do as it pleases(...).

So basically you let enemy fleet movements dictate your own fleet movements. Someone has not been reading his Art of War book.

Ah yes, I skipped the chapter on prioritizing threats during interstellar warfare in virtual environments. Please forgive my ignorance on this matter.