M1ke Hun7
30plus
Fidelas Constans
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Posted - 2015.10.26 18:50:36 -
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Just what is the most OP class of ship in Eve? Well, not quite a single class, but any ship at all that can fit a cov ops cloak.
Why have I come up with this conclusion? At the moment I'm not getting much time to actually play an active part in my alliances ops. I'm moving jobs, moving house and moving country, so rl is quite busy. However, I still have a PC set up and an active internet connection, so let's still play Eve, just in a rather afk manner but still making a small contribution to my alliance.
For the past week or 2 I have been active in front of my PC for about 30 mins a day, the rest of the time I've sat cloaked up in a red mining system. Each day when I get home from work (not too long after DT) I log back in and jump around the systems around my afk camp and kill a few belt rats to give the residents something to find that hints that I'm still active and a threat. I then go back to my afk cloaky safe. A few hours later and before I go to bed I spend another 10 mins killing some belt rats and go afk again while I sleep soundly in my bed.
The result of this is that I have single handedly shut down a large proportion of an alliance's isk tap. Industry indexes in 3 systems have dropped from 5 to 3 and I'm aiming at getting them to 1 or 0 before I leave.
That 1 afk player can have such an effect over such a relatively long period of time is ridiculous. I've no doubt that the long term effects will be negligible for the alliance in question, but scale this up to several afk alts in renter constellations and this is the kind of financial devastation that is massively OP with absolutely no defence. There is the option to take the risk and just mine away regardless, but the nature of mining renter alliances doesn't lead to them risking a ship.
Something needs to be done about the power of the cloak. Some defence needs to be developed that can counter the ability to shut down entire systems. Best I can think of are probes which will detect a cloaky ship to writhing, say, 50km. A solid hit lands you within a 50 km bubble, but you then need to find the cloaky manually, have a few friends and fly around sending drones between each other on assist, for example. An active cloaky will easily be able to evade this, but your afk cloaker will suddenly have a vulnerability. |