TurAmarth ElRandir
Helix Pulse
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Posted - 2012.02.29 15:40:00 -
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AFL Cloaking/Cyno Balancing
OK, the basic issue is not that cloaking as a mechanic is 'broken',
it's not that having a pilot in a system who cannot be 'found' is scary;
It is the use of cloaking AND cyno together that is the core issue people have with AFK Cloaking. A pilot in a cloaked ship at a well made safespot is COMPLETELY SAFE from attack by defending pilots until he decides to uncloak. If he then uses a cyno, the ships that come in, can avoid using defendable gates or closable wormholes in order to enter and leave the system anywhere in that system... this is, of course, the EVE famous "hotdrop". When the cloaky/cyno pilot hotdrops a PvP fleet onto PvE ships or mining shps, the aggressors have an unbalanced advantage.
OK, so change the cloak & cyno mechanic so that NO SHIP IN EVE CAN FIT A CLOAK AND A CYNO AT THE SAME TIME.
This is the simplest solution... CPU needs for a cloak are extreme and require a special ship type... ok, a slight change to the Cynosaural Field Generator module and if any cloak is fitted, active or not, a cyno CANNOT ever have enough CPU to be onlined even with a full set of CPU mods in the low slots.
Cloaks and cloaking is totally unaffected in W-space.
In null, AFK Cloakers are not affected in thier intel gathering and safety while cloaked... they just can't be the focal point of an indefensable incursion by a fleet into a system anymoar.
You want to light off a cyno? Have your cloaky make a BM or sit on the desired warp in point and, in order for you to get the 'reward' of a hotdrop, your cyno ship has to 'risk' the run through the gate/hole then the run to the cloaky or BM and THEN you can light off your cyno and make with the violencing of boats... and the people in the system have a chance to organize a response.... fight back or dock up. Don't like em docking up? Fine... keep your fleet in there and you can 'risk' that to carry out your Income Denial Op instead of ONE lone AFK char... Risk = Reward, = Balance.
Who knows? Mebbe the ability of the defenders to actuallly fight back in PvP fitted ships instead of being hotdropped in PvE ships might just stir up a response and get you some PvP... only on moar balanced terms for all....
You may now rage and cry about how unfair this would be... how I want to nerf your gameplay... how I suc at life because I want to fight back inna PvP fit ship.
TurAmarth ElRandir
HBHI VP & Salvage Operations Director
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