Caleese
New Eden Research And Design School
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Posted - 2008.05.06 12:27:00 -
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The question I have to those that whine about afk cloaking is this. How else is someone supposed to set up an ambush? The only other way would be a logon trap, and we all know how people feel about those.
Honestly with ratters constantly fitting cloaks of their own, or logging off at the first sign of a neutral/enemy how else are you supposed to go into enemy territory, disrupt their money making and destroy their morale. Which (unless you actually enjoy shooting POS's for hours on end) seems to be the most effective/fun way of effecting a war. (Just ask Pandemic Legion about their latest campaign against BRUCE, or the downfall of RISE)
If you're ratting, and see an enemy enter local, you'll cloak, run to a POS or simply log off (if you're that type of person) until they're gone. There is simply no way to ambush your enemy these days due to everyone having local showing enemies so clearly. (Before the standings icons were added to local you at least had a small chance of not being noticed in amongst others in local)
So in order to tip the scales back towards a state of balance, your enemy will cloak in local, waiting for someone to get comfortable enough to go out ratting/mining again, so they can actually get a tackle and possibly call in reinforcements.
I hate comparing video games to real life, but it's a well used tactic in warfare. You know the enemy's out there somewhere, but you don't know where. Maybe they left? Can I risk it?
Honestly there is too much in favour of the enemy ratter these days, it shows you a hostile in local, if you're completely useless there's even a program which will audibly alert you to an enemy (and no doubt with a little tweaking it would also log you off automatically)
Take away the ability to afk cloak and you take away the last possible way (aside from logon traps) for members of a small corp or alliance to make a difference against larger corps/alliances.
I'm glad you don't like afk cloaking, you're not supposed to like it.... that's why it's call WAR and not playtime.
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