What your real issue is, dear Bad EVE Player, is your own crippling cowardice and risk averse mentality. You understand that a cloaked player represents an unknown level of threat, and want it removed. Well sorry but that's not how it works. Nullsec is inherently risky and full of uncertainty - if you don't like this, go back to highsec.

Hope this helps

Everyone has a great point but the bottom line is that AFK cloaking is faulty in the game only because there is no "counter" to it.

AFK mining , its easy and its legal to do but there are ways other players can counter AFK miners by bumping or ganking.

AFK travel, its easy, lazy, legal to do but there are in game counters to it called ganking

AFK missions, was countered when they changed the NPC AI to attack drones

AFK cloaking.... anything?....waiting..... nope ....still no counter to it. the AFK cloaker has all the power. I am all for AFK cloaking but i am also for in game counters to it.

My team at Vulnezia university have already discovered a counter to AFK cloakers.

It's called ACW or Anti Cloak Warfare

A "depth charge" module is fit to a destroyer class ship and has "depth charges" . It is used to hunt down and probe out any kind of cloaked vessel. It is not perfect and takes patience but in the right hands a destroyer can hunt down and destroy an AFK cloaker.

Now if i can just get CCP to buy my "depth charge" module idea i will be filthy rich!

Everyone has a great point but the bottom line is that AFK cloaking is faulty in the game only because there is no "counter" to it.

AFK mining , its easy and its legal to do but there are ways other players can counter AFK miners by bumping or ganking.

AFK travel, its easy, lazy, legal to do but there are in game counters to it called ganking

AFK missions, was countered when they changed the NPC AI to attack drones

AFK cloaking.... anything?....waiting..... nope ....still no counter to it. the AFK cloaker has all the power. I am all for AFK cloaking but i am also for in game counters to it.

My team at Vulnezia university have already discovered a counter to AFK cloakers.

It's called ACW or Anti Cloak Warfare

A "depth charge" module is fit to a destroyer class ship and has "depth charges" . It is used to hunt down and probe out any kind of cloaked vessel. It is not perfect and takes patience but in the right hands a destroyer can hunt down and destroy an AFK cloaker.

Now if i can just get CCP to buy my "depth charge" module idea i will be filthy rich!

Yeah, basically no matter which way you look at it, there isn't a good reason to nerf cloaks the way people always propose

This, a thousand times this. If you will only engage in the game - rather than play a single-player spreadsheet - you'll find it far more interesting.

ie. finding out who the afk is by only ever having a 'bait' fleet out mining. It really doesn't take much or long to find out when their 'active' times are, and once they bite, you'll be able to quickly determine if they are solo or alts.

Then, say for instance the afk cloaker is a cyno pilot, you will find who they are aligned with, where that group stages, and their active times. You could even *gasp* put an 'afk' scout in their staging system to watch for when they are forming or ready to drop.

But doing any of that would require you to actually engage in the game, and you just want to mine peacefully. You should try some single-player space games where you hold down a button while facing an asteroid until your cargo is full. That sounds a little more your speed. I 'played' one of those once with a 'macro' (read: rock on keyboard).

And how did you prove he was AFK?

This thread again

AFK cloaking.... anything?....waiting..... nope ....still no counter to it. the AFK cloaker has all the power. I am all for AFK cloaking but i am also for in game counters to it.

It's not even a matter of "losing" subs by disallowing it, it's a matter of balance.

Requiring fuel for cloaks, or timers/cycles, etc is massively, MASSIVELY unbalanced. It very badly breaks numerous active playstyles. Cloaks aren't solely used by people who pester the terribads like OP - they're also used for scouting ahead, for reconnaissance, for setting up strategic locations, bombing runs, countless other things. Ideas like fuel or cap requirement destroy these playstyles - and for what? Because OP is a coward who has no right to the rewards of nullsec? Pleaaaaaase

AFK cloakers "working as intented"?

Posting in a "People who aren't there scare me" thread or "I see dead people" thread.....I can't decide.

This aint the issue thou, issue is that they can prevent people from earning their isk just by logging in and going afk, since you cant mine or you can mine but you will surely lose your ship when the afk cloaker happens to come back.
I hav myself 3 miners and orca booster and just 1 tard can stop me from earning isk what i need for plexes, even i think the eve is greatest game i hav ever played and want to support CCP im not going to pay 60e each month just that i can give some depraved tard hes fun.

(this is indeed null sec so he dont hav any realistic risk of losing hes ship if he ganks someone)

Here's the thing. If he is in fact afk, then he is no threat to you.

If he isn't afk, then what he is doing is perfectly legitimate stalking of potential prey.

Either way, there is no problem here as far as game mechanics go. The only problem is the one you create for yourself.

I sit afk out in null sex all the time

We're all afk.

Someone had sex with my jump clone while I was away... afk sex ftw

They wont fix it

Someone had sex with my jump clone while I was away... afk sex ftw

It's not broken.