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Pak Narhoo
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Posted - 2015.03.23 09:40:11 -
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Nat Silverguard wrote:[Serious] ELI5: What's "AFK cloaking" and why is it a problem?
Serious?
AFK: away from keyboard.
AFK Cloaking: sitting in a system cloaked while being away from keyboard.
A serious problem for risk adverse nul sec care bears who are afraid that the person who is not actively there may shoot them (oh noes! Someone cloaked in my system, I'm too scared to undock).  |
Pak Narhoo
Splinter Foundation
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Posted - 2015.03.23 15:55:06 -
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DeadDuck wrote:Josef Djugashvilis wrote:Player is at the keyboard in a cloaked ship, valid style of gameplay. It is, so the detection array should not be a problem to him either, since he can pretty much react to an incoming threat.
Yeah, nooooo.
I know many cases where Im not afk cloaked but am cloaked and quite vulnerable if someone turns on that are device.
30 seconds in EVE is a loooong time to be able to get recloaked and no matter what they know now *where* I am.
There is also no incoming message saying: 'warning anti cloak device is about to be turned on'. One moment you are cloaked the next not. Defeats the purpose of being cloaked at all.
To be honest I don't mind pinging the AFK cloaker, even though it means that CCP once again bend over to the whiners. In this case those afraid of someone who isn't there, but for the rest I feel it takes away all that is about cloaked gameplay.
If this gets in as some hope it will I say goodby to my low sec/ nul sec PI/ exploration for example. F-ck it. 
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Pak Narhoo
Splinter Foundation
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Posted - 2015.03.23 16:05:38 -
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March rabbit wrote:Pak Narhoo wrote:If this gets in as some hope it will I say goodby to my low sec/ nul sec PI/ exploration for example. F-ck it. According to some people you cannot do exploration cloaked: you cannot hack, loot, whatever. No loss for you anyway.
Getting there, observing, moving away when D-scan tells you someone is getting closer, come on you know better then that. |
Pak Narhoo
Splinter Foundation
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Posted - 2015.03.29 09:44:22 -
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Go away! You're not here!
Go away!
/me docks up |
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