It's the analogous to a surface navy ship traversing waters where there's a known submarine threat. The location of the sub isn't known, so it's advisable for the transport/industrial ("non-combatant") vessel to be escorted by warships. If you feel "AFK cloakers" are a threat, find a different system to operate out of/in.

Coming from a corp that pretty much lives and dies by the cloaking ability of its ships, I am all in favor of the 15 minute cycle time for cloaking with one counter balance. If I have an active fleet standing by, see a bright spot on the map and send a hunter-killer over to the system to find the 24 people the statistics says are there are either a. POSed up or b. Stationed up i think there should be a 15 minute timer on the undock and kick out mechanic implimented as well. AFK for 15 minutes? Log out or be ejected. Fair is fair.

It's easy to look good when you hide behind fleets that vastly outnumber your opponent. What was your last solo kill? Oh, a Noctis?

Okay, that's not very fair. Let's see... Oh, you kills some dudes over six months ago. A carrier against some battlecruisers. Yeah, that's awesome PvP. The only awesome thing is that they didn't just slide out of point range.

I'm not impressed. Please continue to live in your delusions of grandeur though. Everyone has that right.

inb4 "well this isn't my main"

Besides... KB stats are a pretty terrible metric and every board can be gamed. You might be interested in this thread.

My only issue with removing local is that ninja ratting would become extremely difficult. Having no backup is hard enough, it'd be equivalent to living in a WH by yourself (does anyone do that? If so, have any pointers? WH's sound interesting, but with kids and college I don't really have time for a large corp these days. )

Several thoughts:

1.) If stats meant anything, I would tell your noob-ass to STFU and sit in a corner, and you'd have to obey... You don't have to be some L33t PvPer to understand the issues being discussed in this thread.

2.) Speaking of issues, your main post does NOT coherently provide any discussion on why cloaking is a problem. In it, you complain that AFK cloakers are periodically decloaking and attacking mining vessels and/or their jetcans. If you really think you have a leg to stand on, you need to:

1. Show you understand what cloaking brings to the game....(which you don't seem to grasp).
2. Explain how the current implementations of the cloak create a problem that can't be reasonably dealt with using current game mechanis (which you have yet to do).
3. Explain how your suggestion will improve cloaks to limit any problems while simultaneously retaining the vital abilities of a cloak. (Hint, the ability to safely hide, and the ability to counter the local chat intel tool are vital roles of cloaks).

You fail to communicate this info, let alone show you understand it. Until then, you'll be summarily dismissed as a whiny player that doesn't know how to deal with the insecurities of non-high-sec space...

There needs to be some way of finding and killing ships that are cloaked and stationary for a long peroid of time.
At the moment the hunter can never really become the hunted unless he reveals himself.
I wonder how hunters would feel for instance if you could mine from a perma cloaked ship?

Why not give cloaked ships the ability to find other cloaked ships abit like submarines stalking each other.

I hear alot of people laughing when noobs loose ships in high sec and say no where in EVE is completley safe
I could not agree more with that statement but it should also apply to sitting cloaked in a system full of hostile people.