Zarnoo wrote:So.. I've heard all the pros and cons for afk cloaking, and as a pilot in a ship, I hate them. But.. you just go and find somewhere else to play.
That's not my issue. My issue is that AFK camping isn't gameplay. Leaving yourself logged in while you go about your life just to disrupt other people's gameplay doesn't seem in the spirit of Eve. If I wanted to play an NPC, I would have stayed in High-sec. Additionally, some alliances pay people (anything from isk to real money) to have an Eve account just sit in someone else's system. Now to me, that's earning while not at the keyboard, which again seems to go against the spirit of the game (and to an extend the EULA).
So it's not that I object to the concept of the mechanic, but how it's been implemented. So for me AK camping is ok, but AFK is just bad form
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Right so here's the thing. It doesn't do anything to make anyone do anything. People allow themselves to be intimidated - that is a problem firmly rooted in their seat and nowhere else.
People are so used to the comfort blanket of local guaranteeing their 100% safety, the knowledge that they are 100% alone it has made them sloppy, lazy and generally risk averse in the extreme.
People have forgotten that losing ships in null is just the cost of doing business. Or rather, it should be.
Let's consider wormholes for a moment, by all accounts if there mere threat of trouble "stops people playing the game" then no-one would live or rat in wormholes. This is not an absurd extension of the premise by any stretch of the imagination and yet people rat like one would scarcely believe in wormholes and certainly live there.
A commonly claimed myth is that this is because you can't cyno into a wormhole. This is sadly irrelevant because you don't need to. There is no local to spike, there is no early warning when people rage roll into you. You just die in a glorious fire, it's the circle of life.
What it boils down to, is players risk aversion spawned from the tool that is local and that people feel a misplaced entitlement to go about profiting in eve with no risk whatsoever.
If we need further evidence this is a nullbear problem, then consider lowsec. I've not seen a single soul complain of a "cloaky camper" in there or heck even NPC 0.0 yet loads and loads of PvE happens there too.
In fact the only people complaining about this being a problem are the anomaly squatters.