Easy answer is griefing

But what is the real benefit of sitting an alt ruining someone else's economy and overal well-being during insane amounts of time every single day? I understand it can be fun to do it once in a while, but what about those who keep their alts for months 23/7 over a same system?

I mean they are wasting electricity, efforts logging in right after downtime, and of course a whole character/account this means 15 bucks a month or 850m isk, you choose...

What is the point? Personal reasons in example revenge? Childhood trauma?

benefit of sitting an alt ruining someone else's economy

[Typhoon, screw U AFKguy Sansha Space]
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Easy answer is griefing

But what is the real benefit of sitting an alt ruining someone else's economy and overal well-being during insane amounts of time every single day? I understand it can be fun to do it once in a while, but what about those who keep their alts for months 23/7 over a same system?

I mean they are wasting electricity, efforts logging in right after downtime, and of course a whole character/account this means 15 bucks a month or 850m isk, you choose...

What is the point? Personal reasons in example revenge? Childhood trauma?

A moose once bit my sister ...

Easy answer is griefing

But what is the real benefit of sitting an alt ruining someone else's economy and overal well-being during insane amounts of time every single day? I understand it can be fun to do it once in a while, but what about those who keep their alts for months 23/7 over a same system?

I mean they are wasting electricity, efforts logging in right after downtime, and of course a whole character/account this means 15 bucks a month or 850m isk, you choose...

What is the point? Personal reasons in example revenge? Childhood trauma?

But what is the real benefit of sitting an alt ruining someone else's economy and overal well-being during insane amounts of time every single day?

A moose once bit my sister ...

Unfortunately, afk cloaking is one of the tools that the eve super powers have to do some economic and psychological warfare against their foes, or anyone that they do not like for whatever reasons....

As stated before, a single neutral cloakie in the system can dry down the activity in that system simply by fear of hot drop.

Afk cloaking requires a alt fully dedicated in a system 24/7. It is not something the casual player can afford. So it is mostly directed by power players that have a lot of resources and gather data, while hampering game activities in said systems.

The problem of afk cloaking is that combined with metacode resources like overview alarms, it can be really effective as any sign of overview activity may simply bring the player back to their screens, and there is really no counters to it.
Those that say that people should not be afraid of a single afk cloaked are mostly disingenuous.

Afk cloaking needs a counter, and I hope that CCP will handle this issue... with the recent changes, I have good hope that they will tackle this issue for good at some point....

A moose once bit my sister ...

AFK cloaker.

Can't move
Can't shoot
And nobody is at the controls.

Yet it can lock down entire systems for hours at a time.

This post is the reason.

No, I really mean this, just like posts liek you see in GD are the reason for suicide ganking (along with making isk), reactions like yours is the reaosn for afk cloaking along with the strategic value of denyinh people the abilty to make isk.

Stop bitcing about it, fit to counter it, fleet up and their efforts come to nothing. But if you dock up and do nothing, while that afk cloaker is wasting 850 mil per MONTH, he stopped an alliance from making 850 mil per DAY.

oh and btw:

[Typhoon, screw U AFKguy Sansha Space]
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