Cypermethren
Celtic Cartage And Hauling
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Posted - 2011.09.30 06:44:00 -
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my problem with AFK cloaking?
It's killing fleet fights, is currently un-counterable, and its forcing a shift of gameplay that REQUIRES you to have a second account if you want to "peeveepee" in 0.0
What is becoming an ever increasing "standard" - is that players should have alt accounts which have a Cloakey Covops, and Covert cyno generator. Owner of the player moves the chararacter to system X, his mates, whom also have cloakey alts set them up in system Y, Z, and A - meaning that over 50% of the constelation has an afk cloakey with covert cyno capabilities.
Afk cloakey is left to be AFK, while the owner focuses on his main character, which is PVPing elsewhere, ratting, in a wormhole, basicly doing whatever he/she wants to do at the time.
With dualscreens, or simply tabbing to the afk cloakey character at regualr invervals to check local chat, and Dscan looking for easy targets. If the people in the system move to another system, no problems, you're mates probably jsut told you as they noticed local spike on their afk cloakey.
When a target presents itself, 1 minute later theres 30-50 people in system, their targets dead, and they're allready in warp towards the exit, as they know the path back to their blackops pilot is clear as they have their other afk cloakeys in the next adjacent systems.
honestly - what can you do to counter that?
How is this a good fight, or fun for anyone other than the turkey laughing manicly as he lights the cyno, and the fleet that jumps in to kill stuff they KNOW they have absolutely no chance of being able to survive, or pick off any of their crew, as they essentialy pick and choose all their fights.
How can one counter this without having double their numbers in system 23/7 waiting for them to strike? which is not a viable solution.
AFK Cloaking needs to be looked at unless you want "fleet fights" in 0.0 to be replaced in their entirity with blobs, supercapblobs and hotdrops. Because at current, why would you go out with 20-50 people roaming around looking for a fight when everyone else just hotdrops onto you, or onto other targets. Its too easy, and provides too much safety to the attackers in regards of the people doing it never having too initiate a fight that they are not certain that they will win, even more so if they are operating from a 0.0 NPC station, which in effect makes them un-evictable.
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Cypermethren
Celtic Cartage And Hauling
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Posted - 2011.09.30 07:09:00 -
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Yes, when a player is not actively using the client - or at their computer.
Again - they're not using the afkcloak for anything other than glancing at the screen every now and then, they're flying around having a blast doing missions etc on another account, therefor the clien that hast the character thats cloaked - is afk and not being used for the mostpart.
Still applies to the "they are there but are they realy there" aspect of AFK cloaking - and it seems that for the mostpart of this thread the coupling of the afk cloaker with hotdrops hasnt been discussed. |